Because I’m a woman writing about women who do bad things, that’s somehow very ‘other.’ When men write that, it’s called a novel. It’s just a book.
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.
The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
We should be led by principles and morals and not by men.
The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.
Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
When women fight for a higher salary, they can often feel guilty. When men fight for more pay, they feel empowered. I’ve always wanted to encourage women to go after the money they deserve.
I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it’s pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.
Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.
I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.
In ‘Hamilton,’ we’re telling the stories of old, dead white men, but we’re using actors of color, and that makes the story more immediate and more accessible to a contemporary audience.
Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don’t do that.
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
When I was 11, I saw this ad for dish soap powder that said, ‘Women all over America are fighting greasy pots and pans.’ I was so angry. I couldn’t understand why it didn’t say men as well.
When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain’s summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast for ever and ever.
Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.
