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In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility aris...

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Eckhart TolleA New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Miss Jenkyns wore a cravat, and a little bonnet like a jockey-cap, and altogether had the appearance...

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One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an eq...

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Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps

I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of ...

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Mary WollstonecraftA Vindication of the Rights of Woman

It's such a shame that we know so little about our own country, that we can't find it in our hearts ...

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At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situati...

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What matters is the need to move from the rigidity of national stereotypes towards something more tr...

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First, a man may in some ways be superior to his fellows and still serve them, if together they serv...

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Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ign...

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Samuel JohnsonA Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

Every culture has its southerners -- people who work as little as they can, preferring to dance, dri...

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Life for both sexes--and I looked at them, shouldering their way along the pavement--is arduous, dif...

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Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own...

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No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have be...

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Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our professi...

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I should prefer that you do not mention my name at all in connection with this case, as I choose to ...

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All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries h...

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It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.

I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing fr...

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Arthur SchopenhauerSchopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy

There are two things we must get rid of early in life: a feeling of personal superiority and an exag...

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Superiority is always detested.

I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or becau...

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Milton's Eve! Milton's Eve! ... Milton tried to see the first woman; but Cary, he saw her not ... I ...

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There are three marks of a superior man: being virtuous he is free from anxiety being wise he is ...

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