"Men's stories are seen as universal, women's as particular. What women are up against is the battle to not be marginalized."
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"The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to go on forever. It's part of the human condition."
"No Carthaginian denied Moloch, because to do so would have required more courage that was required to face death in battle."
"Either communism must die or Christianity must die because it's actually a battle between Christ and Anti-Christ."
"It's a battle to be seen in the world of advertisers and in the world of business as a serious force."
"It was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing."
"The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change."
"I’ve starred in a lot of science fiction movies and, let me tell you something, climate change is not science fiction, this is a battle in the real world, it is impacting us right now."
"She had won the battle against her memories. But one form of torture remained, untouched by the years, the torture of the word "why?"
"Shakespeare cared little for the State, the source of all our judgments, apart from its shows and splendours, its turmoils and battles, its flamings out of the uncivilized heart."
"I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?"
"God's will! my liege, would you and I alone, Without more help, could fight this royal battle!"
"Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts motherly, and meek as womanhood."
"He [President Franklin D. Roosevelt] died in harness, and we may well say in battle harness, like his soldiers, sailors and airmen who died side by side with ours and carrying out their tasks to the end all over the world. What an enviable death was his."
"The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are the banner of a reality, an exclusion. Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is."
"But the devil is a subtle worm; he does not give up at one defeat, for he knows human nature, and the strength of the forces which battle for him."
"The battle we are fighting is not against a particular group. It is against human nature - or at least what it has become."
"If you're seeking progress, all presidents are the opposition. You're just fighting different kinds of battles -"
"the battle's in your hands now, but I would lay my armor down, if you said you'd rather love than fight."
"One battle would do more towards a Declaration of Independence than a long chain of conclusive arguments in a provincial convention or the Continental Congress."