When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. When someone else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men I say that intelligence has never saved anyone: and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men.
You May Also Like / View all maxioms
Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a read more
As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing, and then they marry him.
The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing, and then they marry him.
Girls are like butterflies...pretty to look at, too hard to catch.
Girls are like butterflies...pretty to look at, too hard to catch.
Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol read more
Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any read more
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.
I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.
I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.
The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand read more
The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a technologically advanced, de-skilled, low-paid, non-unionized female workforce and paved the way for making part-time work the norm for married women now. A generation later, it was the daughters of wartime women workers who completed their mothers' campaign for equal pay.
If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he read more
If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.
