Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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About Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath who is widely regarded as the most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a wide-ranging influence on literary, political, Christian views, and philosophical thought in the Western world from the late...

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Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Science arose from poetry—when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.

—Virginia Woolf

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Male writers get asked what they think, women what they feel.

—Eleanor Catton

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A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

—Rudyard Kipling

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Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.

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There are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other jobs should be open to everybody.

—Florynce Kennedy

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