Money Quote by Samuel Johnson

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

— William Shakespeare

“...how time first grounds us and then confounds us…give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical.”

— Julian Barnes

I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and being governed.

— Samuel Johnson

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

— Samuel Johnson

The trade of advertising is now so near to perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought…

— Samuel Johnson

It may be that a second wave of the sexual revolution might at last accomplish its aim of freeing half the race from its…

— Kate Millett

As a feminist, I consider the female pronoun to be an honorific, a term that conveys respect. Respect is due to women as members…

— Sheila Jeffreys

To deny one's self, to take up the cross, denotes something immeasurably grander than self-imposed penance or rigid conformity to a Divine statute. It…

— George C. Lorimer

Islam has a total organization of life that is completely different from ours; it embraces simply everything,...There is a very marked subordination of woman…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Any group of people that has been subordinate absorbs the idea of our own subordination, and that it is natural, and comes to think…

— Gloria Steinem

Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery .…

— Alexander H. Stephens

our republican ideas cannot be consistently carried out while women are excluded from any share in the government. ... Any class of human beings…

— Lydia M. Child