Warren Farrell book The Myth of Male Power
Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part II: The Glass Cellars of the disposable sex, p. 206.
Pornography, Men Possessing Women (1979)
Warren Farrell book The Myth of Male Power
Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part II: The Glass Cellars of the disposable sex, p. 206.
“Total commitment is the common denominator among all successful men and women.”
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam book Wings of Fire
Source: Wings of Fire, p. 90.
“Women don't suffer from penis envy. Men do.”
Joseph Heller book Something Happened
Something Happened (1974)
“According to polygamy, men are royals and women so loyal.”
Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
Arthur Calder-Marshall (1908–1992) English novelist, essayist, critic, memoirist and biographer
Drummond, William (pseud. Arthur Calder-Marshall). Victim. London: Corgi. 1961.
Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (1887–1976) British Army officer, Commander of Allied forces at the Battle of El Alamein
As quoted in Hearts Touched With Fire: My 500 Favorite Inspirational Quotations (2004) by Elizabeth Hanford Dole, p. 143
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Speech in Leeds (13 March 1925), quoted in On England, and Other Addresses (1926), p. 62.
1925
Context: We were not peculiarly impressed with speeches that talked of the glorious time that was coming after the war. We realised what the war meant in the world. We felt the foundations of civilisation in Europe cracking. We knew as business men that for a generation this country and the world would be as a whole far, far poorer, and we realised early the struggle that must result to repair the cracks in the foundations of our civilisation and to restore to the country that level of prosperity which she had enjoyed before the war. I think, too, many of us had little faith in supermen. I think that our experience in business had taught us that, as a matter of fact, there are no such things as supermen, and that we should have to rely on the innate common-sense, integrity, courage and faith of the common men and women of this country if we were to make good.
Doris Lessing (1919–2013) British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer
Salon interview (1997)
Context: I'm always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common. If you see it, black and white people, both sides look to see the differences, they don't look at what they have together. Men and women, and old and young, and so on. And this is a disease of the mind, the way I see it. Because in actual fact, men and women have much more in common than they are separated.