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If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?
Gloria Steinem on men

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
Le Corbusier on men

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
Thomas Carlyle on men

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
Marguerite Duras on men

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
Thomas Carlyle on men

The new pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ.
Pope Benedict XVI on men

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'
William Butler Yeats on men

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
Woodrow Wilson on men

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
Thomas Carlyle on men

These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.
Christopher Columbus on men

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.
Thomas Carlyle on men

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
Mario Puzo on men

If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.
David Livingstone on men

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
Karl Marx on men

I mean, honestly, we have to be clear that the life for many Afghan women is not that much different than it was a hundred years ago, 200 years ago. The country has lived with so much violence and conflict that many people, men and women, just want it to be over.
Hillary Clinton on men

Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.
Robin Hayes on men

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.
George Eliot on men

The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn't have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you and literally sold down the river.
Kerry Washington on men

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
Abigail Adams on men

Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
Ambrose Bierce on men