Malé
... However, the beautifully decorated Male' Hukuru Miskiy remains ... been many coup attempts and protests centered in Male as a result of demand for greater democracy in the Maldives ...Famous quotes containing the word male:
“How beastly the bourgeois is
especially the male of the species—”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“Please do not take counsel of women who are so prejudiced that, as I once heard said, they would not allow a male grasshopper to chirp on their lawn; but out of your own great heart, refuse to set an example to such folly.”
—Frances E. Willard (1839–1898)
“The ideal of men and women sharing equally in parenting and working is a vision still. What would it be like if women and men were less different from each other, if our worlds were not so foreign? A male friend who shares daily parenting told me that he knows at his very core what his wife’s loving for their daughter feels like, and that this knowing creates a stronger bond between them.”
—Anonymous Mother. Ourselves and Our Children, by Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, ch. 6 (1978)