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„Мужчина ревнует, потому что слишком любит себя самого; женщина ревнует, потому что недостаточно любит себя.“

„Даже сплющенный своими собратьями в лондонской подземке, англичанин отчаянно делает вид, что он здесь один.“

„Я люблю мужчин — так, как любят хорошую еду или вино.“

„Библиотека - это место, где вы можете потерять свою невинность, не потеряв девственности.“

„Фрейд — отец психоанализа. А матери у психоанализа нет.“

„Большая часть женщин все еще нуждается в собственной комнате, и единственный способ найти ее — выйти из своего дома.“

„В Англии преобладают два типа женщин: одни не могут рассказать анекдот, другие не могут его понять.“

„Безопасность — это когда все известно заранее, когда с тобой ничего не может случиться; безопасность — это отрицание жизни.“

“I find that those men who are personally most polite to women, who call them angels and all that, cherish in secret the greatest contempt for them.”

“Status ought not to be measured by a woman's ability to attract and snare a man.”

“Those miserable women who blame the men who let them down for their misery and isolation enact every day the initial mistake of sacrificing their personal responsibility for themselves.”

“… the consequences of militancy do not disappear when the need for militancy is over. Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.”

“Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.”

“In a sane society no woman would be left to struggle on her own with the huge transformation that is motherhood, when a single individual finds herself joined by an invisible umbilical cord to another person from whom she will never be separated, even by death.”

“If the next time our governments propose to make war on a helpless civilian population we were to uncover our grief and guilt instead of our anger, how much difference might we make?”

“Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.”

“Nothing is more chilling than such a spectacle of unremitting self-sacrifice. This is a woman born to be abandoned by her ungrateful husband at the very pinnacle of success she helped to make for him, for a shameless hussy of nineteen.”

“Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.”

“No one goes to the toilet in novels. You'd think none of us had bladders.”

“Nobody wants a girl whose beauty is imperceptible to all but him…”

“Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother.”

“The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.”

“The failure of women to produce great works of art and all that can be explained in terms of this statement. Insofar as she escapes or rejects her conditioning, the little girl may excel in those kinds of intellectual activity that are called creative, but eventually she either capitulates to her conditioning, or the conflicts become so pressing that her efficiency is hampered.”

“The most powerful entities on earth are not governments but the multi-national corporations that see women as their territory, indoctrinating them with their versions of beauty, health and hygiene, medicating them and cultivating their dependency in order to medicate them some more.”

“Doctors, lawyers and even accountants have always understood that they would have to stand firm, functioning as a solid group protecting its own expertise and hence its earning capacity, from the tendency of all merchants to buy cheap and sell dear. They made of their special knowledge a rare and valuable commodity, insisted on a mystique and protected each other by an immovable professional code. They were cynical enough to know that if they were once cast in the role of public martyrs, working harder and more generously than most other groups of workers, they would be left with nothing but masochism, exhaustion and despair to show for it. Like successful trade unions, who have always worked on the principle that the job is worth whatever you can force the employer to pay for it and not a penny more or less, they understood that nobody was going to pay them their fees out of gratitude, that if they left it to the man whose life they had saved to pay them what he thought fit, they would wind up with half an old penny.”

“Military mythology has to pretend that real men are in the majority; cowards can never be allowed to feel that they might be the normal ones and the heroes are insane.”

“We can put women on Prozac and they will think they are happy, even though they are not. Disturbed animals in the zoo are given Prozac too, which rather suggests that misery is a response to unbearable circumstances rather than constitutional.”

“The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.”

“As Angelo discovered in Measure for Measure, nothing corrupts like virtue.”

“In that mysterious dimension where the body meets the soul the stereotype is born and has her being. She is more body than soul, more soul than mind. To her belongs all that is beautiful, eve the very word beauty itself. All that exists, exists to beautify her.”

“The most unpardonable privilege that men enjoy is their magnanimity.”

“The principle of the brotherhood of man is that narcissistic one, for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.”

“Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.”

“Men have still not realized that letting women do so much of the work for so little reward makes a man in the house an expensive luxury rather than a necessity.”

“Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.”

“Next time round Hitler will be a machine.”

“The element of heroic maleness had always been present in the concept of the artist as one who rides the winged horse above the clouds beyond the sight of lesser men, a concept seldom applied to those who worked with colours until the nineteenth century. When the inevitable question is asked, "Why are there no great women artists?" it is this dimension of art that is implied. The askers know little of art, but they know the seven wonders of the painting world.”