If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

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Plutarch (; Ancient Greek: Πλούταρχος, Ploútarchos, Koine Greek: [ˈplúːtarkʰos]; before AD 50 – after 120) was a Greek and later Roman Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi. He is known primarily for his Parallel Lives, a series of biographies of illustrious...

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To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

Neither blame or praise yourself.

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More quotations tagged with “men and women”

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes

For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.

—Margaret Fuller

Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.

—Lawana Blackwell

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The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.

—Joseph L. Mankiewicz

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