simon de beauvoir;

quotes on feminism; women rights; women status and empowerment

“Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female--whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.”

“Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.”

“If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion”

“...her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.”

“I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.”

One is not born a woman, but becomes one.

When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

“It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.”

“No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.”

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority

"Just as I do not believe that women are inferior to men by nature, nor do I believe that they are their natural superiors either."

"Given that one can hardly tell women that washing up saucepans is their divine mission, they are told that bringing up children is their divine mission."

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concreted situation.

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength, each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving.

I've shown women as they are, as divided human beings, and not as they ought to be.

To emancipate woman is to refuse to confine her to the relations she bears to man, not to deny them to her; let her have her independent existence and she will continue none the less to exist to him also; mutually recognizing each other as subject, each will yet remain for the other an other.

(the author of all these quotes, de beauvoir, is a feminist. in all the above quotes "i","we','us','ours','me' etc is referring to a "woman"). hope all these quotes prove helpful.

“I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.”

“It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.”

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

Virtue can only flourish among equals.

The beginning is always today.

Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

Contending for the rights of women, my main argument is built on this simple principle, that if she be not prepared by education to become the companion of man, she will stop the progress of knowledge, for truth must be common to all, or it will be inefficacious with respect to its influence on general practice.

[Women] were made to be loved, and must not aim at respect, lest they should be hunted out of society as masculine.

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

"If women are by nature inferior to men, their virtues must be the same in quality, if not in degree, or virtue is a relative idea; consequently, their conduct should be founded on the same principles, and have the same aim."

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Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you never planted.

longfellow says

"that heights by great men reached and kept
were not attained by sudden flight;
but,they,while their companions slept
were toiling upward in the night.
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diligence is the mother of goodluck.

"no pains, no gains"

"no sweat, no sweets"

"work and thou shall have"

"it is better to bear out than rust out"

"the best insurance policy for tomorrow is to make the most productive use of today"

"the struggle you are in today, is developing the strength you need for tomorrow"

"the common highway of steady industry and application is the only safe road to travel"

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Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you never planted.

quotes on poverty/ poverty alleviation

Globalization has improved the lives of people throughout the world, but it has also widened the gap between rich and poor...Working to end poverty will make the world safer.
-- Robert Alan Silverstein

"The poverty and long suffering of farmers and indigenous peoples that I have seen has planted in me the principle that justice must be fought for them."
-- Dewi Rana Amir


* "Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict."
-- Kofi Annan

"Wars against nations are fought to change maps; wars against poverty are fought to map change."
-- Muhammad Ali

"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime."
-- Aristotle (384-322 BC)

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
-- James A. Baldwin

We, who have so much, must do more to help those in need. And most of all, we must live simply, so that others may simply live.
-- Ed Begley, Jr.


When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist.
-- Archbishop Helder Camara

Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can think of no milder term to apply to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
-- Thomas Jefferson

Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Unemployment is a weapon of mass destruction.
-- Dennis Kucinich

"If poverty is a disease that infects the entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes, then we can't just treat those symptoms in isolation . We have to heal that entire community."
-- Barack Obama


The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have enough; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
-- Franklin Delano Roosevelt


Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.
-- Russell Simmons

"It's outrageous to line your pockets off the misery of the poor;
It's outrageous, the crimes some human beings must endure..."
-- Paul Simon

Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.
-- George Soros

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Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you never planted.

I have few questions regarding quotations.

1- Quotations in essay..

i- How many quotations should be write in the essay?
ii- Right place of quotation in the essay, in the start, mid or in the end?
iii- Quotation points se relate kar kay likhni chahye ya randomly bhi llikh saktay hain,?
iv- Can we use quotations as a definition? I mean pahle quotations then introduction?
v- what is the right way to write quotation’s i.e. "Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime." Aristotle OR Aristotle very rightly said that “poverty is the parent of revolution and crime”….?

2- Quotations in questions of 20 marks.

i- How many quotations should be write in the simple question of 20 marks?
ii- Right place of quotation in the question, in the start, mid or in the end?
iii- Can we use quotations as a definition?
iv- what is the right way to write quotation’s i.e. "Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime." Aristotle OR Aristotle very rightly said that “poverty is the parent of revolution and crime”….?

Please elaborate me all above mentioned questions.
Regards.

i- How many quotations should be write in the essay?
it depends on the topic and secondly on you. even a few quotations rightly placed and effectively used can give a good impression.

ii- Right place of quotation in the essay, in the start, mid or in the end?
a RELEVANT quotation can be placed anywhere,if it is strengthening your argument.it can give a good effect in the introduction and can add maturity to your perspective.

iii- Quotation points se relate kar kay likhni chahye ya randomly bhi llikh saktay hain,?
random referencing and random quotations will interrupt the flow of your argument, its ineffective use can do more harm.There are a number of rules that we need to be aware of when we are quoting .

It is very important to ensure that the quote is correctly given; providing a mis-quotation in your essay would indicate a serious level of carelessness.
The quotation must be relevant to the argument that you are making.
The quotation should support a point that you have just made.
The quote must be integrated grammatically into your own writing.
while quoting, you can continue on the same line, enclosing the quotation in single quotation marks, and of course, providing the reference.

iv- Can we use quotations as a definition? I mean pahle quotations then introduction?
yes ,you can.

v- what is the right way to write quotation’s i.e. "Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime." Aristotle OR Aristotle very rightly said that “poverty is the parent of revolution and crime”….?

the second way is better and most effective.

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Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you never planted.

Can you please clarify how to classify essay topic into argumentative or descriptive, based on the essay statement?

examples quoted from css 2016 paper
descriptive;
Water crisis and national unity
The creation of New province in Pakistan: implications far an integrated country
Promotion of Tax culture in Pakistan: perspective, prospects and challenges.

argumentative;
Frailty, thy name is women.
We have to learn to be our own best friend, because we fall top easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies

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Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you never planted.

Also how do you classify following essays of 2016 to which category these belong

World as a global village: learning to live together.

The place of Urdu in Pakistan and supreme court's ruling on making Urdu the official language of the country.
Crisis of good governance in Pakistan: need for reforms and institution building.

Does foreign aid help to achieve economic stability.

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Verily, with hardship there is relief” (Qur’an 94:6).

please also described what is thesis type ?