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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Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

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Discovery Originality Creativity
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Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi
Language
English
Time
1962 1960s 20th century
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Citation

Szent-Gyorgyi, Albert. Quoted in The Scientist Speculates: An Anthology of Partly-Baked Ideas, written by Irving John Good. Heinemann, 1962, ch. 1, sect. 6.

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Women's Liberation calls it enslavement but the real truth about the sexual revolution is that it has made of sex an almost chaotically limitless and therefore unmanageable realm in the life of women.

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Sexual revolution Men and women

Author

Midge Decter
Language
English
Time
1972 1970s 20th century
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Citation

Decter, Midge. The New Chastity and Other Arguments Against Women's Liberation. Coward McCann & Geoghegan, 1972, pt. 2, ch. 2.

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I could have danced all night
And still have begged for more.
I could have spread my wings
And done a thousand things
I've never done before.

Eliza Doolittle

I Could Have Danced All Night

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Topic
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Speaker
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Source
I Could Have Danced All Night My Fair Lady
Medium
Song Musical
Language
English
Time
1956 1950s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Lerner, Alan Jay. "I Could Have Danced All Night." My Fair Lady. Composed by Frederick Loewe. 15 Mar. 1956, Mark Hellinger Theatre, New York City, New York, USA.