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970fa4d "... those selling abortion don't want them to have [the facts]," Virginia said heatedly. "Besides the Supreme Court doesn't agree with you. They judges seem to think we poor women would fall apart if we knew the facts, so they decided women don't have the right to know the full truth." She shook her head. "They've made it legal to withhold vital information, even when a woman requests it, for heaven's sake!" facts supreme-court truth women Francine Rivers
211db09 "A soldier: "I know where heaven is and it's Lithuania ... The women are beautiful, pagan, with a practical view towards sex. Who says communism was bad? You're working three levels of advantages: you're a foreign male, you're a rich, exotic American, and their men are a bunch of drunken, criminal slobs." humor lithuania soldiers women Robert D. Kaplan
13a3f50 It was something, what must go through men's mind where women were concerned, to cause them to behave so strangely. behaviour concerned men mens-mind mind something strange strange-behaviour women Larry McMurtry
39b7757 Everyone is allowed a weakness, even women of the twentieth century. humor weakness women Laurie R. King
93a9893 Es gibt zwei Sorten von Mannern. Die einen verstehen 'etwas von Frauen', die anderen sind solche, die einfach 'Frauen verstehen'. Ich weiss nicht, welche Sorte mir verdachtiger ist. empathy gender men mysogyny prejudice understanding women Sten Nadolny
f7429a4 As long as God is a man, not a couple, the life of a woman, according to Hanna,is bound to remain as it is now, namely wretched, with woman as the proletarian of Creation, however smartly dressed. god philosophy women Max Frisch
2358808 The sun dances in her and she has an immense joy of life dance happiness joy sun women James Clavell
760c634 Women, of their nature, crave for liberty; they will not be ordered around like servants. thecanterburytales women Peter Ackroyd
cd89155 Women and cats do what they do; there is nothing a man can do about it women Robert A. Heinlein
a0f24a1 [The ideology of beauty] has grown strong to take over the work of social coercion that myths about motherhood, domesticity, chastity, and passivity, no longer can manage. It is seeking right now to undo psychologically and covertly all the good things that feminism did for women materially and overtly. feminism women Naomi Wolf
39721b5 Now you know what hurt it brings to women when men come into the world. Remember, and make it up to your Mama and to all women. feminism men women Richard Llewellyn
d02ddf1 Two women at the same event wearing the same outfit is a disaster. But two women at the same event singing the same song is a party. And two women at the same event talking about Doris from Fame is a friendship for life. Fill yourself with words, choruses, and heroes, like you're supposed to fill your wardrobe with shoes, brooches, and belts. empowerment songs women Caitlin Moran
561c74c In the street below, a posh-looking drunk man is reading the card of a prostitute, Blue-Tacked up by a doorbell. He's examining it with all the forensic care I presume he puts into reading a wine list. 'What are you looking for?' I ask him, in my head. 'What woman will go best with your main course of terrible, horny loneliness?' I speculate, briefly, on how different the world would be if it were run by women. In that world, if you were a lonely, horny woman - as I am. As I always am - you'd see Blu-tacked postcards by Soho doorways that read, 'Nice man in cardigan, 24, will talk to you about The Smiths whilst making you cheese-on-toast + come to parties with you. Apply within. men protitutes women Caitlin Moran
162cb0b It was, she believed, a simple and unassailable fact of life that if a woman went to epic lengths to throw herself on the mercy of a man, the man would not, could not, refuse. women Nicholas Evans
a341398 Even the mild-mannered Sophia Western of Tom Jones and Richardson's annoyingly pious Clarissa Harlow distinguished themselves by saying no to the authority of their parents, their societies, and norms and demanding to marry the man they chose. Perhaps it was exactly because women were deprived of so much in their real lives that they became so subversive in the realm of fiction, refusing the authority imposed on them, breaking out of old structures, not submitting. women Azar Nafisi
f0e57d4 Look at these magnificent women, I thought, created in such misogynistic and hierarchical societies, yet they are the subversive centers around which the plot is shaped. Everything is supposed to revolve around the male hero. But it is the active presence of these women that changes events and diverts the man's life from its traditional course, that shocks him into changing his very mode of existence. In the classical Iranian narrative, active women dominate the scene; they make things happen. women Azar Nafisi
b1f0145 Some women are born with an instinct for knowing how things work--and what to do when they break. women women-s-fiction women-s-strength women-writers Barbara Delinsky
ade805f And yet now and then he let himself steal a glance at her. Lovely dark colors of her skin, hair, and eyes. We are half-baked compared to them. Allowed out of the kiln before we were fully done. The old aboriginal myth; the truth, there. humility women Philip K. Dick
3e67f29 By the time I wrote this book I needed to look at heroics from outside and underneath, from the point of view of the people who are not included. The ones who can't do magic. The ones who don't have shining staffs or swords. Women, kids, the poor, the old, the powerless. Unheroes, ordinary people--my people. I didn't want to change Earthsea, but I needed to see what Earthsea looked like to us. elderly feminism heroes heroics heroism women Ursula K. Le Guin
1cd9f2a It makes you love vividly, work intensely, and realize that, in the scheme of things, you really don't have time to sit on the sofa in your undies watching Homes Under the Hammer. women Caitlin Moran
ce7cb99 Becoming a woman felt a bit like becoming famous. For, from being benevolently generally ignored - the base-line existence of most children - a teenage girl is suddenly fascinating to others, and gets bombarded with questions: What size are you? Have you done it yet? Will you have sex with me? Have you got ID? Do you want to try a puff of this? Are you seeing anyone? Have you got protection? What's your signature style? Can you walk in heels? Who are your heroes? Are you getting a Brazilian? What porn do you like? Do you want to get married? When are you going to have kids? Are you a feminist? Were you just flirting with that man? What do you want to do? WHO ARE YOU? All ridiculous questions to ask of a 13-year-old simply because she now needs a bra. They might as well have been asking my dog. I had absolutely no idea. humor women Caitlin Moran
65f8775 Where the techno-medical model of birth reigns, women who give birth vaginally generally labor in bed hooked up to electronic fetal monitors, intravenous tubes, and pressure-reading devices. Eating and drinking in labor are usually not permitted. Labor pain within this model is seen as unacceptable, so analgesia, and anesthesia are encouraged. Episiotomies (the surgical cut to enlarge the vaginal opening) are routinely performed, out of a belief that birth over an intact perineum would be impossible or that, if possible, it might be harmful to mother or baby. Instead of being the central actor of the birth drama, the woman becomes a passive, almost inert object - representing a barrier to the baby's eventual passage to the outside world. Women are treated as a homogenous group within the medical model, with individual variations receding in importance. childbearing episiotomies labor-and-deliver techno-medical-model-of-birth women Ina May Gaskin
984584b Men never feel quite the same about a woman's body once they know it's done that thing: widened and torn to push out a baby's head. motherhood pregnancy women Emma Donoghue
9b8b73d We all know that it is women who take the decisions, but we have to let men think that the decisions are theirs. It is an act of kindness on the part of women. women Alexander McCall Smith
2efee7e This tension-the idea that there is a right way to be a woman, a right way to be the most essential woman- is ongoing and pervasive. women Roxane Gay
7583fc0 When I drive to work, I listen to thuggish rap at a very loud volume even though the lyrics are degrading to women and offend me to my core. The classic Ying Yang Twins song 'Salt Shaker'? It's amazing. rap salt-shaker women Roxane Gay
ce9725e Rosina had the fierce charm of the rather nasty girl in the fairy-tale who fails to get the prince, but is more interesting than the girl who does, and has better lines too. fairy-tales nasty women Iris Murdoch
f7ee41b Choking back sobs, I tried to remember a verse from Kahlil Gibran on the question of death. I first whispered it, and as a my memory of it returned, I slowly raised my voice, until all could hear me. 'Only when you drink from the river of silence, shall you indeed sing. And, when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And, when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.' My sisters and I joined hands, remembering that we were like a chain - as strong as the strongest link, weak as the weakest link. As never before, we belonged to a sisterhood more powerful than that of our own blood. Never again would we sit back and wonder at the cruelty of men and the obscene arbitrariness of innocent female death, brought about by men's evil. oppression patriarchy royal-family saudi-arabia sisterhood women Jean Sasson
63bf18c Women, she pointed out, had done nothing with the vote. If the United States had only listened to her back in 1919 she could have saved them all this trouble. No. Certainly not. No votes. votes voting women women-s-suffrage Sinclair Lewis
b0b2861 "So you're positive the killer is a man." "Yes, I think my gender can take responsibility for this one. Women don't cut out other women's hearts." "We can." hearts women Chris Bohjalian
d420301 The heart of evil beats in Afghanistan. When men hold every advantage, neither wealth, nor beauty, nor intelligence, nor education, nor strength, nor family can compete with gender. Women have only prayer and hope as allies. boys evil feminism hope prayer rights war women Jean Sasson
681af57 Nature will unapologetically weed your genes out of existence if you don't take action and learn how to attract women now. Do I have your attention? women Mystery
e4caa9f Under the Iranian code, the worth of a woman's life equals half of a man's, a point that often leads to grotesque legal judgments that effectively punish the victims. In this instance, the judge ruled that the 'blood money' for the two men was worth more than the life of the murdered nine-year-old girl, and he demanded that her family come up with thousands of dollars to finance their executions. women Shirin Ebadi
28d9593 Their walking relationship was unnatural, but they were too fearful to seat themselves at a restuarant to share a meal, for they knew that restaurants in our country are the principal target of the active and increasingly familiar morals committees that harass people of every nationality who live in Saudi Arabia. Such committees are composed of menancing men who unexpectedly surround and enter eating establishments, demanding identification of the restaurant patrons. If proof is not forthcoming that the men and women sharing a table are not husband and wife, brother or sister, or father and daughter, these frightened people will be arrested and escorted to a city gaol, with punishment freely given. The legal penalties vary according to the nationality of the 'criminal'. Muslim offenders can be flogged for their social misconduct, while non-Muslims are gaoled or deported. feminism muslim oppression relationships royal-family society women Jean Sasson
cfcd718 Sandy laughed, and I realized that I liked her, in spite of everything. Yes, she was beautiful. Yes, Sonterra obviously thought she was hot. But that didn't mean she and I were automatic enemies, duty-bound to compete. That was not my typical approach to life and femininity, and I suspected it wasn't hers, either. women Linda Lael Miller
979633b She nonetheless survives as a wanton temptress, not the last time a genuinely powerful woman has been transmuted into a shamelessly seductive one. egypt history women women-empowerment Stacy Schiff
6bfd52d Somebody with a flair for small cynicism once said, 'We live and do not learn.' But I have learned some things. I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesterdays are buried deep -- leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe than an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance. The cloud clears as you enter it. I have learned this, but like everyone, I learned it late. africa pilot women Beryl Markham
afb41d9 "Women are kind of screwed, in the world," Andrew says." women world Michael Cunningham
3f14b2b Under Muslim law, a man's freedom to divorce his wife is justified in the Koran. This system of the threat of divorce looming over a woman's security is most unsettling to women in my land. It is intolerable that many men stretch this ruling to the utmost of its flexibility, demanding divorce for the most trivial causes, ending with the continuous social degradation of their women. Women do not have the same options, since a divorce in a woman's favour is given only after a thorough investigation into her life. More often than not, women will not be allowed to divorce, even when there is just cause. This female lack of freedom so enjoyed by males creates onesided, often cruel methods of male control and power over their women. The words of divorce slip most easily off the tongue of a man who wishes to punish his wife, 'I divorce thee', or 'I dismiss thee', sending the woman into exile from her married home, often without her children. inequality islamic marriage marriage-laws muslim quran saudi-arabia women Jean Sasson
54457ba She had grown accustomed to people's responses to her. Many of them assumed that there was a polar choice between marriage and work and that the more enthusiastically she had embraced her job, the more vigourously she must have rejected the idea of children or male partnership. Elizabeth had given up trying to explain. She had taken a job because she needed to live; she had found an interesting one in preference to a dull one; she had tried to do well rather than badly. She could not see how any of these three logical steps implied a violent rejection of men or children. women Sebastian Faulks
75b1809 Tomorrow's character is made out of today's thoughts. Temptation may come suddenly, but sin doesn't. men pornographers purity sex temptation women Randy Alcorn
77e6493 From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men. men sexism women Barbara Kingsolver
7bb772d Nance is funny that way. She likes women her own size--like your sister. She knows where she is with a woman like Martha. Whereas Molly--she's so--well, so full of life, she makes Nance feel even sicker. women Tracy Chevalier
2c1723a She doesn't realize yet though men go to war it is the women who suffer--perhaps more than anyone. war women Philippa Gregory
9b3e85e Philip knew very little about women, or he would have been aware that one should accept their most transparent lies. (442) women W Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
651100f It isn't really possible for men to understand how much the world doesn't want women to be complete people. The most important thing a woman can be, in our society--more important, even, than honest or decent--is identifiable. Even when Libby's evil--perhaps most of all when she's evil--she's easy to categorize, to stick to a board with a pin like some scientific specimen. Those men in Stillwater are terrified of her because being terrified lets them know who she is--it keeps them safe. Imagine how much harder it would be to say, yes, she's a woman capable of terrible anger and violence, but she's also someone who's tried desperately to be a nurturer, to be a good and constructive human being. If you accept all that, if you allow that inside she's not just one or the other, but both, what does that say about all the other women in town? How will you ever be able to tell what's actually going on in their hearts--and heads? Life in the simple village would suddenly become immensely complicated. And so, to keep that from happening, they separate things. The normal, ordinary woman is defined as nurturing and loving, docile and compliant. Any female who defies that categorization must be so completely evil that she's got to be feared, feared even more than the average criminal--she's got to be invested with the powers of the Devil himself. A witch, they probably would have called her in the old days. Because she's not just breaking the law, she's defying the order of things. society women Caleb Carr
61ac44b We are following the blacks ... And we will follow, entering, perhaps, the same time as women. gay stonewall women Ann Bausum
e14f20e And little girls went to charm schools. Now you've all got degrees from the University of Sarcasm. girls sarcasm set-in-darkness university women Ian Rankin
c86c37b Marcela: Hizome el cielo, segun vosotros decis, hermosa, y de tal manera, que, sin ser poderosos a otra cosa, a que me ameis os mueve mi hermosura, y por el amor que me mostrais, decis, y aun quereis, que este yo obligada a amaros. Yo conozco, con el natural entendimiento que Dios me ha dado, que todo lo hermosos es amable; mas no alcanzo que, por razon de ser amado, este obligado lo que es amado por hermoso a amar a quien le ama. belleza cervantes españa hermosura libertad mujer quijote spanish women Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
d1639bf A woman is a deep Ditch, said he, her House inclines to Death and her Paths unto the Devil devil woman women Peter Ackroyd
299c908 A smart girl is nobody's pushover and nobody's foe. A smart girl is both sword and smile. woman women Chris Bohjalian
be22379 When an experiment was to begin, all women were excluded for fear their irrational natures would influence the result, and an air of fervent concentration descended. science women Iain Pears
5e6f9d6 She worked there for several months as a slave in a Mexican family until they sold her to a wealthy Hispanic man from Santa Fe, N.M. He also purchased another young captive Apache woman from New Mexico to accompany them. Both women were loaded onto an oxcart bound for Santa Fe in a journey that could take at least three months. history méxico native-american santa-fe southwest tribe true-stories women Noel Marie Fletcher
a4fed29 "I am slightly offended by the way busy working women my age are presented in film. I'm not, like, always barking orders into my hands-free phone device and telling people constantly, "I have no time for this!" I didn't completely forget how to be nice and feminine because I have a career." film-industry movies women women-in-film working-women Mindy Kaling
b86e24e Write your own part. It's the only way I've ever gotten anywhere. It is much harder work, but sometimes you have to take destiny into your own hands. It is much harder work, but sometimes you have to take destiny into your own hands. It forces you to think about what your strengths really are, and once you find them, you can showcase them, and nobody can stop you. women writing writing-process Mindy Kaling
611a4e1 "...you need the tiniest bit of bravery. People get scared when you try to do something, especially when it looks like you're succeeding. People do not get scared when you are failing. It calms them. That's why the show Intervention is a hit and everyone loves "worrying about" Amanda Bynes." pop-culture women Mindy Kaling
a4754e1 Know that when you praise and worship God and appreciate fully all that He is, you open up a channel through which more of His love pours into your heart. praise prayer women worship Stormie Omartian
e67695b "Women are supposed to undergo a second, gynecologist annual exam, and this one has been well defined since its inception in the 1950s: breast and external genitalia exams, a Pap smear to detect cervical cancer, a vaginal and perhaps rectal exam. These exams are not always voluntarily undertaken; they may be required as a condition of obtaining or renewing a prescription for a contraceptive: Recall the searing scene in Mad Men where Peggy undergoes a gyn exam in order to get birth control pills and the (male) doctor cautions her that just because the pills are expensive, she shouldn't become "the town pump just to get [her] money's worth." Many women are traumatized by these exams, which in their detailed attention to breasts and genitalia so closely mimic actual sexual encounters. Out-of-place intimacies, like unwelcome touching by a male coworker, are normally regarded as "sexual harassment," but the entire gyn exam consists of intimate touching, however disguised as a professional scientifically justified procedure. And sometimes this can be a pretty thin disguise." exam out-of-place-intimacies women Barbara Ehrenreich
6d3a6aa It was raining again the next morning, a slanting gray rain like a swung curtain of crystal beads. I got up feeling sluggish and tired and stood looking out of the windows, with a dark, harsh taste of Sternwoods still in my mouth. I was as empty of life as a scarecrow's pockets. I went out to the kitchenette and drank two cups of black coffee. You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women. hung-over rain women Raymond Chandler
ac3ad4d By the end of the affair, she had acquired so much miserable information about men and women she almost decided to give up relationships for good. men relationships women Angela Carter
8f2803f Why to women have to decide between family and career if men don't even think about it? feminism women Sheryl Sandberg
0666cb1 "In addition to the external barriers erected by society, women are hindered by barriers that exist within ourselves. We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back when we should be leaning in. We internalize the negative messages we get throughout our lives - the messages that say it's wrong to be outspoken, aggressive, more powerful than men. We lower our own expectations of what we can achieve. We continue to do the majority of the housework and child care. We compromise our career goals to make room for partners and children who may not even exist yet. Compared to our male colleagues, fewer of us aspire to senior positions. This is not a list of things other women have done. I have made every mistake on this list. At times, I still do. women Sheryl Sandberg
313c057 We need more portrayals of women as competent professionals and happy mothers - or even happy professionals and competent mothers. women work Sheryl Sandberg
f099d85 There is no perfect fit when you're looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around. women work Sheryl Sandberg
3d4c60f But I also know that in order to continue to grow and challenge myself, I have to believe in my own abilities. I still face situations that I fear are beyond my capabilities. I still have days when I feel like a fraud. And I still sometimes find myself spoken over and discounted while men sitting next to me are not. But now I know how to take a deep breath and keep my hand up. I have learned to sit at the table. women work Sheryl Sandberg
1cde592 By focusing on her career and taking a calculated approach to amassing power, Heidi violated our stereotypical expectations of women. Yet by behaving in the same manner, Howard lived up to our stereotypical expectations of men. The end result? Liked him, disliked her. perspective stereotypes women work Sheryl Sandberg
52b3e48 Think personally, act communally. women work Sheryl Sandberg
bba267a He said that when you want to change things, you can't please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren't making enough progress. Mark was right. women work Sheryl Sandberg
4a552b8 Anything seemed possible if you had ingenuity, money, and tenacity. But the body doesn't play by those rules. misscarriage motherhood women Ariel Levy
4156f2a "Salome interrupts. We're not members! she repeats. We are the women of Molotschna. The entire colony of Molotschna is built on the foundation of patriarchy (translator's note: Salome didn't use the word "patriarchy" - I inserted it in the place of Salome's curse, of mysterious origin, loosely translated as "talking through the flowers"), where the women live our their days as mute, submissive, and obedient servants. Animals. Fourteen-year-old boys are expected to give us orders, to determine our fates, to vote on our excommunications, to speak at the burials of our own babies while we remain silent, to interpret the Bible for us, to lead us in worship, to punish us! We are not members, Mariche. We are commodities." religion women Miriam Toews
70bd025 A mae sempre dissera que, quando uma mulher estava bem-vestida, se sentia bem. colin-bridgerton dress julia-quinn lady-whistledown os-segredos-de-colin-bridgerton penelope-featherington romancing-mister-bridgerton women Julia Quinn
ce99f8a Se enfrenta usted al enigma de la naturaleza, Daniel. La femina, babel y laberinto. Si la deja usted pensar, esta perdido. Recuerde: corazon caliente, mente fria. El codigo del seductor. mujer mujeres seduccion seduction woman women Carlos Ruiz Zafón
2ccda22 "..."Above all, though, we don't want a weakly habit of constant complaint. As a rough guide, remember that while the average man is ill for four days a year, a grown woman must expect to spend one fourth of her life in actual pain." Daisy felt a rush of admiration. So far she herself had done nothing like her fair share." women Penelope Fitzgerald
d1885cc Lo mejor de las mujeres es descubrirlas. mujeres woman women Carlos Ruiz Zafón
f76b0d1 You talk as if Bea were a trophy.' 'No, as if she were a blessing,' Fermin corrected. cute love trophy women Carlos Ruiz Zafón
1a7dae2 Dona Lorena, una bibliotecaria sabia que rondaba por alli por las tardes, siempre me preparaba una pila de libros que denominaba <>. Dona Lorena decia que el nivel de barbarie de una sociedad se mide por la distancia que intenta poner entre las mujeres y los libros. <>. Durante la guerra la metieron en la carcel de mujeres y dijeron que se habia ahorcado en su celda. books lectura librarian libros mujeres reading women Carlos Ruiz Zafón
cad0490 I am now satisfied of what I always though--which is how much more women can do if they set about it then men. I will lay any bet that had you been here, you would not have got half as much on board as I have. women women-vs-men Karen Essex
3a7e7af Margarita megdavo sakyti, kad yra dvi rusys moteru: tos, kurios matomos kiaurai, ir tos, kurios nesioja paslapti. Ir kad tai yra svarbiausia, ka vyrai issyk pajunta, ir svarbiausia, kas juos patraukia arba ne. Vienus traukia vieno tipo moterys, kitus kito. Margarita - man nereikia to sakyti - buvo kiaurai matoma, bet kartais ji pavydedavo toms, kurios nesiojo paslapti ar apsimesdavo jos apgaubtos. secrets women Julian Barnes
b115a8f This was another skill women were meant to learn: when a man's story had come to an end. Mostly, it wasn't a problem, as the end was thumpingly obvious; or else the narrator started snorting with laughter in advance, which was always a pretty good clue. Martha had long ago decided only to laugh at things she found funny. It seemed a normal sort of rule; but most men found it rebuking. funny men women Julian Barnes
077cb72 We all have our demon. But men? They have them much worse. The world tells them that they are the leaders and great and macho and have to be big and brave and make a lot of money and lead these glamorous lives. But they don't, do they? [...] Women, we get it. Life is about a certain kind of drudgery. We are taught not to hope or want too much. Men? They never get that. women Harlan Coben
0ff7d89 The school song at Accrington High School for Girls was 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men,' a terrible choice for an all-girls' school, but one that helped turn me into a feminist. Where were the famous women--indeed any women--and why weren't we praising them? I vowed to myself that I would be famous and that I would come back and be praised. feminism men praise recognition women Jeanette Winterson
9bcbe68 I don't hate men, I just wish they'd try harder. gender hatred men women Jeanette Winterson
3535751 Her mouth was wide; no rosebud that could only open just enough to let out a 'yes' and 'no', and 'an't please you, sir'. feminism women Elizabeth Gaskell
5ade18b 1. Men are easy to please but are not pleased for long before some new novelty must delight them. 2. Men are easy to make passionate but are unable to sustain it. 3. Men are always seeking soft women but find their lives in ruins without strong women. 4. Men must be occupied at all times otherwise they make mischief. 5. Men deem themselves weighty and women light. Therefore it is simple to tie a stone round their necks and drown them should they become too troublesome. 6. Men are best left in groups by themselves where they will entirely wear themselves out in drunkenness and competition. While this is taking place a woman may carry on with her own life unhindered. 7. Men are never never to be trusted with what is closest to your heart, and if it is they who are closest to your heart, do not tell them. 8. If a man asks you for money, do not give it to him. 9. If you ask a man for money and he does not give it to you, sell his richest possession and leave at once. 10. Your greatest strength is that every man believes he knows the sum and possibility of every woman. gender-relations men money passion perception power rules trust women Jeanette Winterson
93dea5d I noticed that women have a private language. A language not dependent on the constructions of men but structured by signs and expressions, and that uses ordinary words as code-words meaning something other. gender language women words Jeanette Winterson
ce9431c It was getting late in the year, the sky had been low and overcast for days, and I was drinking tea in a glassy room with a woman without children, a gate through which no one had entered the world. She was turning the pages of an expensive book on a coffee table, even though we were drinking tea, a book of colorful paintings-- a landscape, a portrait, a still life, a field, a face, a pear and a knife, all turning on the table. Men had entered there but no girl or boy had come out, I was thinking oddly as she stopped at a page of clouds aloft in a pale sky, tinged with red and gold. This one is my favorite, she said, even though it was only a detail, a corner of a larger painting which she had never seen. Nor did she want to see the countryside below or the portrayal of some myth in order for the billowing clouds to seem complete. This was enough, this fraction of the whole, just as the leafy scene in the windows was enough now that the light was growing dim, as was she enough, perfectly by herself somewhere in the enormous mural of the world. feminism woman womanhood women women-without-children Billy Collins
772fa39 She always preferred strong lies to weak truths marriage truth women Richard Flanagan
99aff33 Yet, running just beneath the surface of food industry feminism was an implicit anti-feminist message. Then as now, ads for packaged foods are aimed almost exclusively at women and so reinforced the retrograde idea that responsibility for feeding the family fell to mom. The slick new products would help her do a job that was hers & hers alone. cooking feminism food women Michael Pollan
cb2839b "This ambivalence about the value of cooking raises an interesting question: Has our culture devalued food-work because it is unfulfilling by it's very nature or because it has traditionally been "women's work"?" feminism food society women Michael Pollan
fb64e39 Six men control almost all the media in the United States--book publishing, magazines, television, movie studios, newspapers, and radio. They are not friendly toward feminism, which has almost disappeared from the surface of our society. You will almost never see a feminist column on an op-ed page, a feminist article in a magazine, or newspaper, actual (not satirized) feminist ideas on television or in the movies. Only magazines & radio controlled by feminists--and these are few and not well-funded--offer information on the feminist perspective. This might be understandable if feminism were a wild-eyed manic philosophy. But it is a belief, a politics, based on one simple fact: women are human beings who matter as much as men. That is all that feminism claims. As human beings, women have the right to control their own bodies, to walk freely in the world, to train their minds and bodies, and to love and hate at will. Only those who wish to continue to coerce women into a servant/slave class for men cannot accept this principle. feminism gender human-rights inequality magazines media movies newspapers politics preface radio sexism television women women-s-rights Marilyn French
f21ca39 When you devote your life to 'finding yourself,' you probably won't. feminist find-yourself finding-yourself self-confidence self-help women womens-issues womens-strength Laura Schlessinger
f497f28 The current feminist agenda mostly accuses men or society in general, thereby ignoring the pivotal role played by women themselves in their life predicaments. feminist self-help self-help-quote self-help-quotes-for-women women women-s-strength womens-empowerment Laura Schlessinger
87ca5b9 I'd made the vampire cry. Great. I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' hearts. humor women Jim Butcher
966acfe The world is bulging with desirable women, as you have no doubt noticed already, but there are some who have a special presence, as if the space they occupy has more intrinsic depth and reality than that of others. These ones are surreptitiously incandescent, they glow with an invisible light reminiscent of mountains, shortly after dawn, in a tropical land. When I encounter one of these, it is like being in a clearing in the Amazon when a jaguar strolls past, sniffing the air, or like going to the front of a boat, looking down into the water, and seeing dolphins curvetting across the bows. women Louis de Bernières
cd41297 Put some clothes on, you weird, yellow-eyed, table-dancing, werewolf-training, cryptic, stare-me-right-in-the-eyes-and-don't-even-blink wench. humor women Jim Butcher
0e47b43 Pelagia put her hands on her hips, taking advantage of the superiority implicit in the fact that she was standing and he lying down. witty women Louis de Bernières
7348763 What would you do if you weren't afraid? business career inspirational self-help self-help-women women Sheryl Sandberg
4af062a There are two kinds of women in this world, my dear. Those who wave goodbye to others starting on grand adventures and those waving back from the window of a train or the deck of a ship. - Ophelia Higginbotham travel traveler women Victoria Alexander
1cd2c88 Some ideas are dangerous. philosophy thinking women Donna Woolfolk Cross
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