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When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.

When men are oppressed, it’s a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it’s tradition.
– Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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  2. Clearly, naming the major figures in the tradition had become a tradition in itself. – Gregory Woods
  3. When you touch someone who authentically represents a tradition, you not only touch his or her tradition, you also touch your own. – Thich Nhat Hanh
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  5. As a product of Anglo-Saxon-Protestant culture, I am familiar with its centuries-old tradition of hiding its abuse of women under pretty packaging. – Lundy Bancroft
  6. If women had power what would men be but women who can’t bear children? And what would women be but men who can? – Ursula K Le Guin
  7. It is not triumph which defines a man, but tragedy. Triumph always brings out the best in men, but tragedy shows us what we are made of. – Jocelyn Murray
  8. When men imagine a female uprising, they imagine a world in which women rule men as men have ruled women. – Sally Kempton
  9. There was a time when Men functioned through the mind and Women from their heart, now its Men who feel more and women think more… – Ramana Pemmaraju
  10. Generally, men prefer dating women they love over women who love them; women prefer the opposite. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  11. Maybe when we face a tragedy, someone, somewhere is preventing a bigger tragedy from happening. – Kamand Kojouri
  12. Tragedy makes you disable, but your attitude towards tragedy keeps you disable. – Sarvesh Jain
  13. Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy. – Orson Scott Card
  14. This was not a love story that ended in tragedy.This was a tragedy that ended in a love story. – Rachel Higginson
  15. Even amidst tragedy there is laughter, sometimes farce. The degree of farce depends on who is running the tragedy. – Daniel Prokop
  16. The solitude of women’s minds is regrettable, I said to myself, it’s a waste to be separated from each other without procedures, without tradition. – Elena Ferrante
  17. There are many ways to be beautiful. Fighting, swearing, and ignoring tradition could make a women irresistible. – Fatema Mernissi
  18. Philosophers have a long tradition of marrying stupid women, from Socrates on. They think it clever. – Simon Gray
  19. Women show men beauty in things beyond their ambitions. Women tell men to stop and smell the roses. – Criss Jami
  20. Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women? – Virginia Woolf
  21. When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment. – Warren Farrell
  22. Women marry men hoping they will change. They don’t. Men marry women hoping they won’t change. They do. – Bettin Arndt
  23. Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them. – Margaret Atwood
  24. The Every Single Women to whom I met they are not happy with their men, and the men either not happy with their women! – sid
  25. Maslow did not make two different pyramids, one for men and one for women. He did not differentiate in identifying what men want and what women want. – Shahla Khan
  26. men are comfortable around strange women, but women are rarely comfortable around strange men. – Christina Escamilla
  27. To buy women things, some men entertain. To entertain women, some men buy things. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  28. This is a love story. It’s about the good old days, when men were men and women were women and books were books. – Jonathan Galassi
  29. If you love someone very trulyyou will start seeing other women’s/men’s just like other women’s/men’s – Jaiendra Puri
  30. Don’t be controlled by the tradition of men – Sunday Adelaja
  31. I was its skin, its movement, its shape, its god, its creator, its destroyer. And you thought Dexter was bad. The Bridgeman arrives soon. – Catherine Astolfo
  32. When people don’t understand the meaning of freedom in their lives, they will continue to live as though they’re still oppressed. – Gugu Mona
  33. The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. – Karl Marx
  34. The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art. – Ernest Becker
  35. Non Violence and Religion: Both designed to keep the oppressed from murdering their oppressors. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  36. I am for the largest liberty for the poor man — for the oppressed. – Lewis Tappan
  37. Can you imagine the feeling of being an oppressed colonial being addressed respectfully by a colonizer in the mother country? – Ambeth R Ocampo
  38. Helping othersI order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Moslem or not. – Idries Shah
  39. He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul. – Isabel Allende
  40. Difficult times do not produce gentility, as if there is an angle hovering over the world of the oppressed. – Jonny Steinberg

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