30,129 Quotes About Men

  • Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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    Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his pick.

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  • Author Chinua Achebe
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    When a new saying gets to the land of empty men, they lose their heads over it.

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  • Author Chinua Achebe
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    A man who lived on the banks of the Niger should not wash his hands with spittle.

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  • Author Chinua Achebe
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    You do not know me,’ said Tortoise. ‘I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.

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  • Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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    Culture does not make people - people make culture. So if it is in fact true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, we must make it our culture. [...] A feminist is a man or a woman who says, 'yes there is a problem with gender as it is today and we must fix it. We must do better.'

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  • Author Chinua Achebe
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    Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig.

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