“It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
“Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.”
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Irish writer and poet 1854–1900Related quotes
Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being
pg 160
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Four: Soul and Body
Camille Paglia (1947) American writer
As quoted in Sexuality and Gender (2002) by Christine R. Williams and Arlene Stein, p. 213
Context: Men are run ragged by female sexuality all their lives. From the beginning of his life to the end, no man ever fully commands any woman. It's an illusion. Men are pussy-whipped. And they know it. That's what the strip clubs are about; not woman as victim, not woman as slave, but woman as goddess.
“No man knows where his business ends and his neighbor's begins.”
E. W. Howe (1853–1937) Novelist, magazine and newspaper editor
Country Town Sayings (1911), p55.
“Measure a man by his actions fully, through his whole life, from the beginning to the end.”
Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor
Posthumous attributions, Tupac: Resurrection (2003)
