“The Creator made women to please the eye and trouble the mind.”
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer
Two Rivers saying
(15 October 1993)
Source: The Wheel of Time: Boxed Set
Existence (1975)
Fiction
“The Creator made women to please the eye and trouble the mind.”
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer
Two Rivers saying
(15 October 1993)
Source: The Wheel of Time: Boxed Set
“He's in for trouble—the man whose wife is detested by all women and desired by all men.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men
Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) American fiction writer
Source: Gibbon's Decline & Fall (1996), Chapter 20 (p. 449)
Michael Mullen (1946) U.S. Navy admiral and 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Congressional testimony on repealing DADT, 2 February 2010
Context: Mr. Chairman, speaking for myself and myself only, it is my personal belief that allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly would be the right thing to do. No matter how I look at this issue, I cannot escape being troubled by the fact that we have in place a policy that forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens.