"In the forties, to get a girl you had to be a GI or a jock. In the fifties, to get a girl you had to be Jewish. In the sixties, to get a girl you had to be black. In the seventies, to get a girl you've got to be a girl."

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"I should have my 'girl citizenship' revoked. I never get facials. I never get my nails done. I'm so busy."

— Megan Mullally

Entertainment1958

#gender

"And to those critics who are so pessimistic about our economy, I say: "Don't be economic girlie men!"

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Politics1947

#gender

"Never - never in my whole life - has my head spun as much from a book as it did with Rosenberg’s Myth. Not because his writings were exceptionally profound, difficult to comprehend or emotionally over…"

— Victor Klemperer

Education1881–1960

#books

"In Catch-22, the figure of the black market and the ground of war merge into a monster presided over by the syndicate. When war and market merge, all money transactions begin to drip blood."

— Marshall McLuhan

Philosophy1911–1980

#money