Pickering, why can't a woman be more like a man?

My Fair Lady

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Topic

Men and women

Speaker

Professor Henry Higgins

Actor

Rex Harrison

Source

My Fair Lady

Medium

Song Film

Genre

Musical comedy (film) Musical (film) Musical comedy Musical

Language

English

Time

1964 1960s 20th century

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Citation

"A Hymn to Him." My Fair Lady. Directed by George Cuko, performed by Rex Smith, Warner Bros., 1964.

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Even if it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, go on out and sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures; sweep streets like Handel and Beethoven composed music; sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry; (Go ahead) sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say, "Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Topic
Doing a good job Vocation
Speaker
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Medium
Sermon
Language
English
Time
1967 1960s 20th century
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Citation

King, Martin Luther, Jr. "The Three Dimensions of a Complete Life." 9 April 1967, New Convenant Baptist Church, Chicago, IL, USA. Sermon.

Another quote about Men and women

Why are women…so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

Virginia Woolf

A Room of One's Own

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Topic
Men and women

Author

Virginia Woolf
Source
A Room of One's Own
Medium
Essay
Genre
Feminist literature
Language
English
Time
1929 1920s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Hogarth Press/Harcourt Brace & Co., 1929, ch. 2.

Current Citation

Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Mariner Books, 2005, ch. 2.

Another quote from My Fair Lady

I could have danced all night.

Eliza Doolittle

My Fair Lady

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Topic
Dancing
Speaker
Eliza Doolittle
Actor
Audrey Hepburn
Source
I Could Have Danced All Night My Fair Lady
Medium
Song Film
Genre
Musical comedy (film) Musical (film) Musical comedy Musical
Language
English
Time
1964 1960s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

"I Could Have Danced All Night." My Fair Lady. Directed by George Cukor, performed by Marni Nixon, Warner Bros., 1964.