“As Proust once said, classically beautiful women should be left to men without imagination.”

— Alain de Botton

Source: Essays In Love

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Swiss writer 1969

Nicole Hollander (1939) Cartoonist

Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, pp. 212-213

“The [political] left are people with an imagination and the right are those without an imagination.”

Amos Oz (1939–2018) Israeli writer, novelist, journalist and intellectual

"Between Oz and Ayalon" (interview), the Supplement to Shabbat, 21 November 2008, Yedioth Ahronoth, p. 2.

“Women shouldn’t be in combat, said Vorkosigan, grimly glum. Neither should men, in my opinion.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 14 (p. 223)

“The women of the Right are certainly the most beautiful … the Left has no taste, not even when it comes to women”

Silvio Berlusconi (1936) Italian politician

As quoted in "Did I say This? in The Observer (20 April 2008)
2008

“My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

“Beautiful women are always drawn to men they think will keep them beautiful.”

Mark Z. Danielewski book House of Leaves

Source: House of Leaves

“Not into older guys, huh?" asked Adrian once we were alone.
"You're imagining things," I said. "Clearly, my stunning beauty has clouded your mind.”

Richelle Mead book Frostbite

Source: Frostbite

“Many women would like to dream with men without sleeping with them. Someone should point out to them that this is utterly impossible.”

Karl Kraus (1874–1936) Czech playwright and publicist

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

“I am a feminist. I reject wholeheartedly the way we are taught to perceive women. The beauty of women, how a woman should act or behave. Women are strong and fragile. Women are beautiful and ugly. We are soft-spoken and loud, all at once. There is something mind-controlling about the way we're taught to view women. My work, both visually and musically, is a rejection of all those things. And most importantly a quest.”

Lady Gaga (1986) American singer, songwriter, and actress

SHOWstudio Interview. In Camera with Lady Gaga 30 May 2010. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmcxdZQCnT4&feature=PlayList&p=6DB0E6483F09B62E&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1.

“The Seventh Men were completely without interest in the universal and the unseen. The beauty which they sought to create was ephemeral and very largely sensuous. And they were well content that it should be so. Personal immortality, said a dying sage, would be as tedious as an endless song.”

Olaf Stapledon book Last and First Men

Source: Last and First Men (1930), Chapter XIII: Humanity on Venus; Section 2, “The Flying Men” (p. 199)

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