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39f2675 A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. love romantic women Jane Austen
bd3d7fe Well-behaved women seldom make history. misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt women inspirational Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
09887f1 I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will. empowerment flaws freedom gender identity image independence integrity realism self-awareness self-determination women Charlotte Brontë
ea4f9a6 Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. women writing Virginia Woolf
e4f7d21 I would always rather be happy than dignified. pride women Charlotte Brontë
51174e4 I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. inspirational women F. Scott Fitzgerald
7ba52f2 A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it. living philosophy women D.H. Lawrence
3459977 I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives. double-standards empowerment equality feminism flattery gender hypocrisy independence men misogyny rationality reason self-determination social-norms stereotypes strength women women-s-rights Jane Austen
13dd10a There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me. dignity elizabeth-bennet empowerment fear independence intimidation self-determination strength stubbornness women Jane Austen
83d9c50 Better to be strong than pretty and useless. girls inspirational pretty strength women Lilith Saintcrow
78f9e34 I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience. empowerment equality experience freedom gender independence men reason self-determination submission superiority women women-s-rights Charlotte Brontë
a2c130f Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed. dorian-gray marriage men relationships women Oscar Wilde
5c65487 I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate. empowerment flaws freedom gender ideal-woman identity image independence integrity love men realism romance self-awareness self-determination women Charlotte Brontë
c44c011 I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother. feminism hate love marriage married-life matrimony men mothers psychology relationships sons women Martha Gellhorn
d25a1a2 Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows. Man lies in the woman's womb only to gather strength, he nourishes himself from this fusion, and then he rises and goes into the world, into his work, into battle, into art. He is not lonely. He is busy. The memory of the swim in amniotic fluid gives him energy, completion. Woman may be busy too, but she feels empty. Sensuality for her is not only a wave of pleasure in which she is bathed, and a charge of electric joy at contact with another. When man lies in her womb, she is fulfilled, each act of love a taking of man within her, an act of birth and rebirth, of child rearing and man bearing. Man lies in her womb and is reborn each time anew with a desire to act, to . But for woman, the climax is not in the birth, but in the moment man rests inside of her. ecstasy fulfillment joy love men passion sensuality sexuality women Anaïs Nin
d87db97 As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking. dignity double-standards empowerment feminism gender hypocrisy intelligence men misogyny self-determination social-norms stereotypes thought women Virginia Woolf
e7de926 In youth, it was a way I had, To do my best to please. And change, with every passing lad To suit his theories. But now I know the things I know And do the things I do, And if you do not like me so, To hell, my love, with you. change character empowerment love men nature pleasing self-discovery self-esteem self-respect truthfulness wisdom women youth Dorothy Parker
4f931f5 Dispute not with her: she is lunatic. women William Shakespeare
8689a84 There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty. be-yourself beauty body-image comfortable happiness imperfection inspirational life rare success women Steve Maraboli
6cc1ba2 When in a relationship, a real man doesn't make his woman jealous of others, he makes others jealous of his woman. boyfriend girlfriend inspirational jealous life love marriage men motivational relationship women Steve Maraboli
c17b903 If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next--if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions--you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to. knowledge women Margaret Atwood
66056a5 you boys can keep your virgins give me hot old women in high heels with asses that forgot to get old. sex-appeal women Charles Bukowski
6ad6666 She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression. women zealousness C.S. Lewis
8c45ddd How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode. breakup life love women W. Somerset Maugham
ba99c2a Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence. poetry women Virginia Woolf
96814a0 Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence. inspirational motivational women Eleanor Roosevelt
6c767ff A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen. dignity double-standards empowerment equality feminism gender hypocrisy judgment men misogyny poetry respect women writing Virginia Woolf
3b9a03c But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about. women Gabriel García Márquez
f333603 Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his real girlfriend. affairs dating jewelry life love men relationships romance women Amy Sedaris
cff0ccf A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. money on-writing virgin women writing Virginia Woolf
8116a40 "Build a house?" exclaimed John. "For the Wendy," said Curly. "For Wendy?" John said, aghast. "Why, she is only a girl!" "That," explained Curly, "is why we are her servants." -- women J.M. Barrie
1d50689 Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy. women worship Alexandre Dumas
4f5d4ab To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman? empowerment equality feminist gandhi gender inspirational men strength women Mahatma Gandhi
2f4f13e If you meet a woman of whatever complexion who sails her life with strength and grace and assurance, talk to her! And what you will find is that there has been a suffering, that at some time she has left herself for hanging dead. women Sena Jeter Naslund
7ecaca1 The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. empowerment feminism gender men misogyny women Virginia Woolf
649791e They sicken of the calm who know the storm. excitement storm women Dorothy Parker
126f39d It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication. flattery love secret-love sense unavowed-love vulnerability women Charlotte Brontë
a56dea6 As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times. men women W. Somerset Maugham
4fb4f62 Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam. man-s-heart men sad violence women Khaled Hosseini
5c6ebba "I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men." "Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything." -- clichés constancy double-standards education feminism gender inequality love men misogyny opportunities social-norms stereotypes women Jane Austen
58d4d62 The strength of a woman is not measured by the impact that all her hardships in life have had on her; but the strength of a woman is measured by the extent of her refusal to allow those hardships to dictate her and who she becomes. inspirational inspirational-life the-strength-of-a-woman true-strength wisdom-quotes women women-s-inspirational women-s-strength C. JoyBell C.
2ae4ddf You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory! men thoughts women Georgette Heyer
56075e6 One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying. feminism historical inspirational legendary women Joan of Arc
0d200f4 Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought. equality inspirational race women Kathryn Stockett
433c51f Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination. imagination proust women Marcel Proust
4a3abf0 If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things. empowerment equality gender instruction jobs men skills women work Plato
0465b60 Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so quietly under the sober gowns, and many silent sacrifices of youth, health, ambition, love itself, make the faded faces beautiful in God's sight. Even the sad, sour sisters should be kindly dealt with, because they have missed the sweetest part of life, if for no other reason. women Louisa May Alcott
e74f3f0 Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up. humour love relationships women Marian Keyes
a0db5d0 If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers. men women W. Somerset Maugham
9ba4231 Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn't break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out very slowly. inkdeath men women Cornelia Funke
e6528f0 You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door? You don't, do you? And neither does he. You're turning over your whole life to him. Your whole life, girl. And if it means so little to you that you can just give it away, hand it to him, then why should it mean any more to him? He can't value you more than you value yourself. self-worth women Toni Morrison
c0cd1f7 "I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself." empowerment flaws freedom gender ideal-woman identity image independence integrity realism self-awareness self-determination women Charlotte Brontë
89b67cc She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation. women Jane Austen
bc36245 For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time. sex women Isabel Allende
8cd55f7 At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies. dexterity men poise superiority women P.G. Wodehouse
2d4de95 I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been. equality gender men superiority women William Golding
5737023 If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a true light: they misapprehend them, both for good and evil: their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend. double-standards empowerment expectations false-belief feminism gender hypocrisy illusions misconceptions misogyny stereotypes women Charlotte Brontë
649660d Done is better than perfect. business career inspirational lean-in self-help women Sheryl Sandberg
5a94463 Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the same horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly. men wishes women Zora Neale Hurston
7446fcf It was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials. women John Steinbeck
c4a742a Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it our culture. feminism gender-equality humanity women Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
03d6d2b Margaret Atwood, the Canadian novelist, once asked a group of women at a university why they felt threatened by men. The women said they were afraid of being beaten, raped, or killed by men. She then asked a group of men why they felt threatened by women. They said they were afraid women would laugh at them. humor men privilege women Molly Ivins
58265d4 "Yes Yes when God created love he didn't help most when God created dogs He didn't help dogs when God created plants that was average when God created hate we had a standard utility when God created me He created me when God created the monkey He was asleep when He created the giraffe He was drunk when He created narcotics He was high and when He created suicide He was low when He created you lying in bed He knew what He was doing He was drunk and He was high and He created the mountains and the sea and fire at the same time He made some mistakes humor passion women Charles Bukowski
139295b Women may fall when there's no strength in men. Act II marriage men wisdom women William Shakespeare
c43692b A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. certainty gender guesses men women Rudyard Kipling
111fa2e When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet, of some mute and inglorious Jane Austen, some Emily Bronte who dashed her brains out on the moor or mopped and mowed about the highways crazed with the torture that her gift had put her to. Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. dignity empowerment feminism gender history misogyny persecution social-norms suppression witches women women-writers writing Virginia Woolf
5b73fab She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless. women Veronica Roth
3c96508 Don't marry a rich man. Marry a good man. He will spend his life trying to keep you happy. No rich man can buy that! inspirational inspirational-love love women Staness Jonekos
1fec3b4 She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog. soul stubborn women Stephen King
2311820 Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance. fear men women Julian Barnes
583e0f0 Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel? feelings strength tess women Thomas Hardy
2c9c538 All the problem of women, starts with men. All the problem of men, ends with women. inspirational love men problem women Santosh Kalwar
eb8cfe2 Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation. dignity double-standards empowerment feminism gender hypocrisy inequality misogyny morality protectiveness social-norms stereotypes womanhood women Virginia Woolf
f350c1f Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything. men relationships sex women Milan Kundera
36c98e1 "Conversation between a princess and an outlaw: "If I stand for fairy-tale balls and dragon bait--dragon bait--what do you stand for?" "Me? I stand for uncertainty, insecurity, bad taste, fun, and things that go boom in the night." "Franky, it seems to me that you've turned yourself into a stereotype." "You may be right. I don't care. As any car freak will tell you, the old models are the most beautiful, even if they aren't the most efficient. People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve." "Well, you may get off on being a beautiful stereotype, regardless of the social consequences, but my conscience won't allow it." "And I goddamn refuse to be dragon bait. I'm as capable of rescuing you as you are of rescuing me." "I'm an outlaw, not a hero. I never intended to rescue you. We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves." rescuing women Tom Robbins
ac6243f Women are never so strong as after their defeat. empowerment perseverance strength women Alexandre Dumas
01479a6 Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women. empowerment good-behaviour ladies obedience rebellion rule-breaking rules trouble wellesley-college-commencement women Nora Ephron
23ab4ab My gran had always told me that a woman--any woman worth her salt--could do whatever she had to. woman women Charlaine Harris
91b2d0b "We (men) would rather lose an arm out a city bus window than tell you simply, "You're not the one." We are quite sure you will kill us or yourself or both--or even worse, cry and yell at us." sex the-one women Greg Behrendt Liz Tuccillo
172161d "They lay silently. She was staring at something across the room. She was making him feel uncomfortable. 'It wouldn't work. It's the attraction of opposites,' he said. relationships women James Salter
9cc3baf There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes with morning in a forest, and this is different from the silence of a sleeping city. There is silence after a rainstorm, and before a rainstorm, and these are not the same. There is the silence of emptiness, the silence of fear, the silence of doubt. There is a certain silence that can emanate from a lifeless object as from a chair lately used, or from a piano with old dust upon its keys, or from anything that has answered to the need of a man, for pleasure or for work. This kind of silence can speak. Its voice may be melancholy, but it is not always so; for the chair may have been left by a laughing child or the last notes of the piano may have been raucous and gay. Whatever the mood or the circumstance, the essence of its quality may linger in the silence that follows. It is a soundless echo. africa pilot stories women Beryl Markham
61bfade As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied satisfaction women Oscar Wilde
bc27d81 What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman. sexes women Charles Bukowski
40b3205 Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling. feeling sincerity women Honoré de Balzac
dd65e89 I know that you're selfish, selfish beyond words, and I know that you haven't the nerve of a rabbit, I know you're a liar and a humbug, I know that you're utterly contemptible. And the tragic part is'--her face was on a sudden distraught with pain--'the tragic part is that notwithstanding I love you with all my heart. men tragedy women W. Somerset Maugham
fc56859 And for that one moment of freedom you have to listen to all that love crap... it drive me nuts sometimes... I want to kick them out immediately... I do now and then. But that doesn't keep them away. They like it, in fact. The less you notice them the more they chase after you. There's something perverse about women... they're all masochists at heart. relationships women Henry Miller
b6c31df "You're so beautiful," said Alice. "I'm afraid of looking at you and not knowing who you are." "I think that even if you don't know who I am someday, you'll still know that I love you." "What if I see you, and I don't know that you're my daughter, and I don't know that you love me?" "Then, I'll tell you that I do, and you'll believe me." early-onset-alzheimer-s mother-daughter women Lisa Genova
356a1a8 Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women. men women Margaret Atwood
304fe18 Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years--I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue. women Elizabeth Gilbert
77b6d28 "Is it time for your period, or something?" With unerring instinct, he'd found a great big red button, and pushed it. Wyatt fights to win, which means he fights dirty. I understand the concept because that's how I fight, too, but understanding it didn't stop me from reacting. I could practically feel my blood bubbling with steam. He turned around, all controlled aggression, and damned if he didn't push the button again. "What is it about having a period that makes women so bitchy?" ... It was an effort, but I said as sweetly as possible, "It isn't that we're bitchier, it's that having a period makes us feel all tired and achy, so we have less tolerance for all the we " By the time the sentence ended the sweetness was long gone, my jaw was clenched, and I think my eyes were bugging out. Wyatt took a step back, belatedly looking alarmed." menstration periods women Linda Howard
6a88b3a There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot. honor men women Cormac McCarthy
2c03670 "You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner." (Elizabeth Bennett)" behaviour declaration empowerment gentlemanlike gentlemen humiliation love marriage-proposal men mr-darcy pride proposal propriety refusal rejection scorn self-determination women Jane Austen
4318930 When a woman loves you she's not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she's weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her. women W. Somerset Maugham
66e8497 When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her. The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women. women Fulton J. Sheen
cfd6e2d A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her. love maltreatment men mistreatment separation sherlock-holmes women Arthur Conan Doyle
0706ac0 So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too. girls kurt-vonnegut machines manipulation thinking women Kurt Vonnegut
fa74a55 Right. I look fine. Except I don't,' said Zora, tugging sadly at her man's nightshirt. This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them from self-disgust. To that end she had tried banning television in the early years, and never had a lipstick or a woman's magazine crossed the threshold of the Belsey home to Kiki's knowledge, but these and other precautionary measures had made no difference. It was in the air, or so it seemed to Kiki, this hatred of women and their bodies-- it seeped in with every draught in the house; people brought it home on their shoes, they breathed it in off their newspapers. There was no way to control it. body-image feminism women Zadie Smith
bab2ff3 After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy. love men women Orhan Pamuk
f5e65bd The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied...strength and beauty must go together. feminism louisa-may-alcott women Louisa May Alcott
866e7cf My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made to speak those truths for which I am still seeking, I had made contact with other women while we examined the words to fit a world in which we all believed, bridging our differences. differences feminism illness silence speaking-out truth women words Audre Lorde
595ae91 Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three. lover women Robert Jordan
1e9ddf6 We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change. business career inspirational self-help women Sheryl Sandberg
e576f4c The ultimate sexist put-down: the prick which lies down on the job. The ultimate weapon in the war between the sexes: the limp prick. The banner of the enemy's encampment: the prick at half-mast. The symbol of the apocalypse: the atomic warhead prick which self-destructs. was the basic inequity which could never be righted: not that the male had a wonderful added attraction called a penis, but that the female had a wonderful all-weather cunt. Neither storm nor sleet nor dark of night could faze it. It was always there, always ready. Quite terrifying, when you think about it. No wonder men hated women. No wonder they invented the myth of female inadequacy. humor men sexism women Erica Jong
d4c189e Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life. sex women Erica Jong
754b005 Life was not easy, nor was it happy, but she did not expect life to be easy, and, if it was not happy, that was woman's lot. It was a man's world, and she accepted it as such. The man owned the property, and the woman managed it. The man took credit for the management, and the woman praised his cleverness. The man roared like a bull when a splinter was in his finger, and the woman muffled the moans of childbirth, lest she disturb him. Men were rough of speech and often drunk. Women ignored the lapses of speech and put the drunkards to bed without bitter words. Men were rude and outspoken, women were always kind, gracious and forgiving. life literature men scarlett-o-hara women Margaret Mitchell
700cc51 Here's a news flash for the ladies: for every one of you who thinks we all want a girl like Angelina Jolie, all skinny elbows and angles, the truth is, we'd rather curl up with someone like Charlotte - a woman who's soft when a guy wraps his arms around her; a woman who might have a smear of flour on her shirt the whole day and not notice or care, not even when she goes out to meet with the PTA; a woman who doesn't feel like an exotic vacation but is the home we can't wait to come back to. men women Jodi Picoult
8e966d9 He was ugly, himself. Weird-ugly. But ugliness in a man doesn't matter, much. Ugliness in a woman is her life. women Joyce Carol Oates
87c29cd The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their beauty to defy the foulness of theocracy. Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Azar Nafisi as their ideal feminine model. ayaan-hirsi-ali azar-nafisi feminism heroes heroines iran iraq islam religion role-models taliban-treatment-of-women theocracy women women-and-religion women-in-afghanistan women-in-iran women-in-iraq women-in-islam women-s-rights-in-iran women-s-rights-movement-in-iran Christopher Hitchens
441c662 What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,' and, 'What a man is is an arrow into the future and a what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from. marriage men women Sylvia Plath
ece1376 Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears liars manipulation men-and-women narcissism narcissists politicians politics preachers sociopathology sociopaths women Nassim Nicholas Taleb
075c51a I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man. personal-growth superiority women Arthur Schopenhauer
b213e7a "Harry," Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, "what you know about women, I could juggle." women Jim Butcher
7778f5a There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ourselves inspirational women Margaret Mead
66c8d7c She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, feared at tea-parties, hated in shops, and loved at crises. women Thomas Hardy
053ccc1 Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet. women Margaret Atwood
0284e61 Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream. intellectual-freedom women writing inspirational Virginia Woolf
db6c8f1 My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind. true-love women Charles Dickens
5af6e15 I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody) humor husbands intelligence intelligent marriage matrimony women Elizabeth Peters
54dd08d Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?' The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly. Oh, my dear, it's rather hard to take quite literally the things a man says when he's in love with you.' Didn't you mean them?' At the moment. honesty lies love men relationships women W. Somerset Maugham
8b753be Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized. wisdom women Simone de Beauvoir
050b038 Es natural condicion de las mujeres desdenar a quien las quiere y amar a quien las aborrece women Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
63826c9 He saw so many emotions mingled on her face: anger disappointment, fear - and defiance. Like her daughter, thought Fenoglio again. So uncompromising, so strong. Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn't break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out, very slowly. men women Cornelia Funke
8d5bf1c Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. age women Oscar Wilde
369bb10 Fortune does favor the bold and you'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try. business career inspirational self-help women Sheryl Sandberg
03cb66f What d'you suppose I care if I'm a gentleman or not? If I were a gentleman I shouldn't waste my time with a vulgar slut like you. romance sluts women W. Somerset Maugham
a480e7c She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be taken. And since old Tom and the children could not know hurt or fear unless she acknowledged hurt or fear, she had practiced denying them in herself. And since, when a joyful thing happened, they looked to see whether joy was on her, it was her habit to build laughter out of inadequate materials....She seemed to know that if she swayed the family shook, and if she ever deeply wavered or despaired the family would fall. women John Steinbeck
3c59cb2 The girl was grateful to the young man for every bit of flattery; she wanted to linger for a moment in its warmth and so she said, 'You're very good at lying.' 'Do I look like a liar?' 'You look like you enjoy lying to women,' said the girl, and into her words there crept unawares a touch of the old anxiety, because she really did believe that her young man enjoyed lying to women. men relationships women Milan Kundera
7af99c7 A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy happiness woman women John Irving
591e303 Hitch: making rules about drinking can be the sign of an alcoholic,' as Martin Amis once teasingly said to me. (Adorno would have savored that, as well.) Of course, watching the clock for the start-time is probably a bad sign, but here are some simple pieces of advice for the young. Don't drink on an empty stomach: the main point of the refreshment is the enhancement of food. Don't drink if you have the blues: it's a junk cure. Drink when you are in a good mood. Cheap booze is a false economy. It's not true that you shouldn't drink alone: these can be the happiest glasses you ever drain. Hangovers are another bad sign, and you should not expect to be believed if you take refuge in saying you can't properly remember last night. (If you don't remember, that's an even worse sign.) Avoid all narcotics: these make you more boring rather than less and are not designed--as are the grape and the grain--to enliven company. Be careful about up-grading too far to single malt Scotch: when you are voyaging in rough countries it won't be easily available. Never even think about driving a car if you have taken a drop. It's much worse to see a woman drunk than a man: I don't know quite why this is true but it just is. Don't ever be responsible for it. advice alcoholism alochol drinking drowning-one-s-sorrows drugs drunk-driving eating food hangovers martin-amis men responsibility rules scotch single-malt whiskey women Christopher Hitchens
b46e2ed Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave women James Salter
4477970 You must understand: they fear you. There is nothing scarier in their minds than a girl who knows the power of her flames. girl-power inspirational women Nikita Gill
75abb7d She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman. wit women David Mitchell
6143258 Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed. love suicide women W. Somerset Maugham
8e44b73 He feared me as many men fear women: because their mistresses (or their wives) understand them. They are scarcely adult, some men: they wish women to understand them, and to that end they tell them all their secrets; and then, when they are properly understood, they hate their women for understanding them. love men relationships women Julian Barnes
c87115b " Courage moral and physical: 'anima'--the ability to think like a woman. Also a sense of the absurd. Courage moral and physical: "anima"--the ability to visualize the mind and need of a man. Also a sense of the absurd." courage empathy men sensitivity women Christopher Hitchens
96a0ad7 Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees. men men-and-women mental-illness relationships women Nelson DeMille
6eccebe And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's life, gay in the morning, restless all day, tired at sundown? Her heart simple and willful as a bird's heart? spirituality subjectivity women James Joyce
1ee264f Why did God make women so beautiful and man with such a loving heart? men women Walker Percy
2aad5d3 True lovers may never know what love means. A man may love a woman out of his reach. She does not know he loves her, and he will never speak of it. women Rosalind Miles
17d61bf "There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?" "Are you a young lady?" "I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will be treated." expectations gender honesty independence influence integrity love marriage matrimony propriety respect self-determination self-respect uprightness women Charlotte Brontë
37d0382 So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day. women Zora Neale Hurston
3701ad5 This is what I miss, Cordelia: not something that's gone, but something that will never happen. Two old women giggling over their tea. women Margaret Atwood
37db9d6 Women sometimes allow you to be unfaithful to their love; they never allow you to wound their self-esteem. women Alexandre Dumas-fils
a9a7a7d Great minds may have cold hearts. Form but no color. It is an incompleteness. And so they are afraid of any woman who both thinks and feels deeply. feminist women Sena Jeter Naslund
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