“It is the custom of all men, everywhere, to be obtuse where women are concerned.”
Murray Leinster book The Pirates of Zan
Source: The Pirates of Zan (1959), Chapter 10
Light (1919), Ch. XXII - Light
Context: The eye is lost in all directions among the desolation where the multitude of men and women are hiding, as always and as everywhere.
That is what is. Who will say, "That is what must be!"
I have searched, I have indistinctly seen, I have doubted. Now, I hope.
“It is the custom of all men, everywhere, to be obtuse where women are concerned.”
Murray Leinster book The Pirates of Zan
Source: The Pirates of Zan (1959), Chapter 10
“Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words.”
Diogenes Laërtius (180–240) biographer of ancient Greek philosophers
Cleobulus, 4.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 1: The Seven Sages
“Now I know why women have a hole between their legs. That's where they hide all their problems.”
Jim Goad (1961) Author, publisher
Shit Magnet: One Man's Miraculous Ability to Absorb the World's Guilt (Feral House, 2002)
“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.
“Men put roadblocks in front of women as a way of hiding their inefficiencies.”
Bernadette Lahai (1960) Sierra Leonean politician
30% (Women and Politics in Sierra Leone), Anna Cady, 2018-06-18 https://vimeo.com/43595116,
“Everywhere in the world, young men and women like what is forbidden.”
Massimo Introvigne (1955) Italian philosopher
"The Xinjiang Class: How the CCP Tries to “Convert” the Uyghurs—and Fails" https://bitterwinter.org/the-xinjiang-class-how-the-ccp-tries-to-convert-the-uyghurs-and-fails/
“Never trust a shiny surface. They hide a multitude of flaws.”
Melissa de la Cruz book Masquerade
Source: Masquerade