Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.

—James Thurber

hatred men and women misogyny

About James Thurber

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James Grover Thurber (December 8, 1894 – November 2, 1961) was an American cartoonist, writer, humorist, journalist, and playwright. He was born in Columbus, Ohio, and attended Ohio State University (OSU), leaving in 1918 without graduating. He spent over a year in Paris, working for the US State Department as...

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There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

—James Thurber

There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.

—James Thurber

The paths of glory at least lead to the grave, but the paths of duty may not get you any where.

—James Thurber

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Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.

—James Thurber

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Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

—James Thurber

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More quotations tagged with “men and women”

Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.

—H. L. Mencken

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How close the sexes sometimes come to one another. It is as much a matter of behavior and the sphere in which they move that separates the masculine part of humanity from the feminine.

—George Bernard Shaw

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I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body.

—Elayne Boosler

There can be no spirituality, no sanctity, no truth without the female sex.

—Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

—W. Somerset Maugham

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