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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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There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.

There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.

by Denis Diderot Found in: Men and women Quotes,
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Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.

Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.

by Thomas Fuller Found in: Men and women Quotes,
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It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

by Baskins Found in: Men and women Quotes,
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The family is the school of duties... founded on love.

The family is the school of duties... founded on love.

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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

by Oscar Wilde Found in: Men and women Quotes,
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All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.

All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.

by Anonymous Found in: Men and women Quotes,
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Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

by Anonymous Found in: Men and women Quotes,
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What a man sows, that shall he and his relations reap.

What a man sows, that shall he and his relations reap.

by Clarissa Graves Found in: Men and women Quotes,
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Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired

Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired

by Mark Twain Found in: Men and women Quotes,
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