“Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men
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Ny Daily News http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/gossip/donald-cuomo-mario-fired-article-1.612165 (24 March 2004)
2000s
“I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.”
“Feminists have no idea that some women like to flirt with danger because there is a sizzle in it.”
Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), The Rape Debate, Continued, p. 65
Context: Feminists have no idea that some women like to flirt with danger because there is a sizzle in it. You know what gets me sick and tired? The battered-woman motif. It’s so misrepresented, the way we have to constantly look at it in terms of male oppression and tyranny, and female victimization. When, in fact, everyone knows throughout the history of the world that many of these working-class relationships where women get beat up have hot sex. They ask why won’t she leave him? Maybe she won’t leave him because the sex is very hot. I say we should start looking at the battered-wife motif in terms of sex. If gay men go down to bars and like to get tied up, beaten up, and have their asses whipped, how come we can’t allow that a lot of wives like the kind of sex they are getting in these battered wife relationships? We can’t consider that women have kinky tastes, can we? No, because women are naturally benevolent and nurturing, aren’t they? Everything is so damn Mary Poppins and sanitized.
A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover (1929)
“Beautiful women are always drawn to men they think will keep them beautiful.”
Source: House of Leaves
Source: Common risk factors in the returns on stocks and bonds, 1993, p. 8
Speech to the Canada Club, London (21 November 1927), quoted in Our Inheritance (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938), p. 141.
1927
Context: Your country is a country for men from the North, the hardy virile races. Quality before quantity any day. Build up with the best. What does it matter if it is a hundred years, or two hundred years, or more, before your country is full? Keep the stock you have, and the men and women you have, and see that the coming generations are in no way inferior to them.
