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    In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that _men_ know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is _look_ at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop; eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home.

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The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

by Betty Friedan Found in: Men and women Quotes,
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A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her read more

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

by Enid Bagnold Found in: Men and women Quotes,
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A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.

by Louis Nizer Found in: Men and women Quotes,
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She'd have you spew up what you've drunk when you were out.

She'd have you spew up what you've drunk when you were out.

by Caecilius Found in: Men and women Quotes,
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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.

by Jane Goodsell Found in: Men and women Quotes,
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I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, read more

I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked me in the cellar.

by Anonymous Found in: Men and women Quotes,
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The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

by Confucius Found in: Men and women Quotes,
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Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing they read more

Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing they die earlier.

by Gloria Steinem Found in: Men and women Quotes,
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A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete read more

A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.

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