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  • For centuries the word 'nature' has been used to bolster prejudices or to express, not reality, but a state of affairs that the user would wish to see.

  • Sadly, man recognises that the ideal, submissive woman he has created for himself is somehow not quite what he wanted.

    Men   Submissive   Wanted  
  • The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.

    Race   Glowing   Males  
  • Monarchs not only fashion their age, but are fashioned by it, so that they can become a sort of personification of the age. If Elizabeth I, independent, strong, represents the age of Shakespeare's heroines, a woman's heyday, Victoria represents another image of womanhood, predominant in the nineteenth century: a woman who, although queen in her own right, leaned on her husband, looked up to him, and went into perpetual mourning after his death. The feminist movement filled her with shocked horror and outrage.

    Fashion   Strong   Queens  
  • grievance does not make for great art.

    Art   Doe   Grievance  
  • Nothing comes back. The eye sees for a moment, the ear hears, but look, now it is gone.

    Eye   Looks   Gone  
  • There is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done by.

    Fear   Women   Done  
  • But the gates of my happy childhood had clanged shut behind me; I had become adult enough to recognize the need to conceal unbearable emotions for the sake of others.

  • Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist.

    Husband   Father   Hands  
  • Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a watertight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may be a sin, exploitation of other people might, on the face of it, look rather nasty, but who can blame a man for 'doing the best' for his children?

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