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I am for ever adding to these pages quotes that seem relevant to Taken In Hand in some way. If you would like to suggest a quote yourself, please do! Simply add it as a comment. Please give as much information about the quote as possible – who said/wrote it, when, where, etc. – or say where you found it.

The file is so large that I am dividing it up and in the first instance will post it in parts. When I have collected a lot more quotes I might choose a more meaningful/interesting categorisation system, but in the meantime it is just alphabetical by author (first name) and by film title.

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Note: This quotations section is just for fun. It is not to be taken seriously – it is just for (my own) entertainment! It is not intended to constitute any kind of guidance, or any sort of argument, or any sort of evidence for or against anything. I am including quotes I think true, including occasionally by evil sources; I am including quotes I think wholly false (but germane); I am including quotes that have a grain of truth but that's all. I am including quotes that have made me laugh, quotes that are interestingly disturbing, quotes that are interestingly false, and quotes that are erotic. I am including quotes that are truer than the source thought they were, quotes that are true in an ironic sense, quotes that will offend, quotes that will amuse, quotes that make the reader think.

On no account assume that any quote here is thereby endorsed in some sense, let alone that the source is endorsed! It's my sense of humour, you know. If you will be offended to read scary quotes by scary people, do not click on the links, because you will find some on many pages. Only read the quotes if your sense of humour is intact. It's just a bit of fun!

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Thu, 16/09/2004 - 09:05

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#1 Quotations

"The whole fact of the matter is that all this modern emancipation of women has resulted in them getting it up their noses and not giving a damn what they do. It was not like this in Queen Victoria's day. The Prince Consort would have had a word to say about a girl like Stiffy, what?" "I can conceive that His Royal Highness might quite possibly not have approved of Miss Byng." "He would have had her over his knee, lyaing into her with a slipper, before she knew where she was. And I wouldn't have put it past him to have treated Aunt Dahlia in a similar fashion." P.G. Wodehouse 'The Code of the Woosters'.

Submitted by Louise C on Wed, 22/09/2004 - 06:36.

#2 Miscellaneous misogyny

All the following are from "Mike Sogynist's" page on Manorama, http://homepage.ntlworld.com/verismo/index.html.

Woman is a violent and uncontrolled animal, and it is useless to let go the reins and then expect her not to kick over the traces. You must keep her on a tight rein . . . Women want total freedom or rather - to call things by their names - total licence. If you allow them to achieve complete equality with men, do you think they will be easier to live with? Not at all. Once they have achieved equality, they will be your masters . . .
Cato the Elder 234–149 B.C., quoted in Livy’s History of Rome.

The best couturiers, hairdressers, home designers and cooks are men. I suspect that, were it biologically possible, men would make better mothers.
Ida Alexa Ross Wylie, The Little Woman 1945.

If we had more feminine women there would be less unemployment, divorce, delinquency and other evils.
Isabelle Stayt (of the Campaign for the Feminine Woman) 1983.

There are no woman composers, never have been, and possibly never will be.
Sir Thomas Beecham 1879-1961

Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men; but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen.
Sir Compton Mackenzie 1883-1972, On Moral Courage.

I love men, not because they are men but because they are not women.
Queen Christiana (of Sweden) 1626-89.

Theo
chas_dar@yahoo.co.uk

Submitted by Theo on Tue, 23/11/2004 - 15:15.

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