“No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.”

— Simone de Beauvoir, book The Second Sex

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French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, po… 1908–1986

Nicole Hollander (1939) Cartoonist

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“No one is more dangerous than someone who thinks he has "The Truth". To be an atheist is almost as arrogant as to be a fundamentalist.”

Tom Lehrer (1928) American singer-songwriter and mathematician

Responding to a question on whether he considered himself an atheist or an agnostic, in an interview at celebathiests.com (June 1996) http://web.archive.org/web/20061027073138/http://www.celebatheists.com/index.php?title=Tom_Lehrer <br class="br">Context: No one is more dangerous than someone who thinks he has "The Truth". To be an atheist is almost as arrogant as to be a fundamentalist. But then again, I can get pretty arrogant.

“A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.”

Lana Turner (1921–1995) American actress

“What is a highbrow? He is a man who has found something more interesting than women.”

Edgar Wallace (1875–1932) British crime writer, journalist and playwright

New York Times, 24 January 1932, sec.8, p. 6

“… there is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.”

G. H. Hardy book A Mathematician's Apology

A Mathematician's Apology (1941)

“What is more arrogant than honesty?”

Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle

Source: Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 15 “To the Ice” (p. 213)

“The more women there are about, the softer a wise man steps.”

Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer

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“In this regard, the word vikhyatam is very significant. A man is always famous for his aggression toward a beautiful woman, and such aggression is sometimes considered rape. Although rape is not legally allowed, it is a fact that a woman likes a man who is very expert at rape.”

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896–1977) Indian guru

Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1999. Canto 4, Chapter 25, verse 41, purport. Vedabase http://www.vedabase.com/en/sb/4/25/41 <br class="br">Quotes from Books: Loving God, Quotes from Books: Regression of Women's Rights

“I have far more confidence in the one man who works mentally and bodily at a matter than in the six who merely talk about it”

Michael Faraday (1791–1867) English scientist

and I therefore hope and am fully persuaded that you are working. Nature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science if we only allow her intimations to fall unbiased on our minds. Nothing is so good as an experiment which, whilst it sets an error right, gives us (as a reward for our humility in being reproved) an absolute advancement in knowledge.
Letter to John Tyndall (19 April 1851); letter 2411, edited by [Frank A. J. L. James, The correspondence of Michael Faraday, Volume 4, IET, 1999, 0863412513, 281]

“A romantic man often feels more uplifted with two women than with one: his love seems to hit the ideal mark somewhere between two different faces.”

Elizabeth Bowen book The Death of the Heart

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