#behaviour

[J]ust the sight of this book, even though it was of no authority, made me wonder how it happened that so many different men – and learned men among them – have been and are so inclined to express both in speaking and in their treatises and writings so many wicked insults about women and their behaviour. Not only one or two ... but, more generally, from the treatises of all philosophers and poets and from all the orators – it would take too long to mention their names – it seems that they all speak from one and the same mouth. Thinking deeply about these matters, I began to examine my character and conduct as a natural woman and, similarly, I considered other women whose company I frequently kept, princesses, great ladies, women of the middle and lower classes, who had graciously told me of their most private and intimate thoughts, hoping that I could judge impartially and in good conscience whether the testimony of so many notable men could be true. To the best of my knowledge, no matter how long I confronted or dissected the problem, I could not see or realise how their claims could be true when compared to the natural behaviour and character of women. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#books #character #clichés #conduct #double-standards

I can't wait to be seen as a woman. But I know I probably have to contribute to that with behaviour. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#contribute #i #know #probably #seen

You get weird and unsettling behaviour in the country. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#country #get #unsettling #weird #you

All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#characters #great #human #human behaviour #root

The world sees in our conduct, in our behaviour, the proof that we are the real children of God. ↗

— Pope Shenouda III

#children #conduct #god #our #proof

At times unpopular measures are needed in order to change behaviour. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#change #measures #needed #order #times

I still find that a kind of stricture of the heart happens when I see any form of bigoted or racist behaviour. I get an actual pain in my heart. ↗

— Janet Suzman

#any #behaviour #bigoted #find #form

I like to have a martini, Two at the very most. After three I'm under the table, after four I'm under my host. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#drunken-behaviour #humor #humor

Personally, I don't see old economics and behavioural economics as opposed. It is useful to assume people are rational as a good approximation to their long term behaviour, but it would be unwise not to think how in practice their behaviour may deviate from that simplifying assumption. ↗

— Evan Davis

#assume #assumption #behaviour #behavioural #deviate

I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#behaviour #confounded #distinction #earnestly #i