Powerful women always interpret hostility as unrequited love.

Nature can be cruel. Predators are everywhere. Those who don’t need to be protected from outside forces often need to be protected from themselves. In society, women are referred to as “the fairer sex”. But...

In our global community, when a woman becomes an authoritative figure- it scares the world. She is no longer giving into traditional patriarchal notions of submissiveness, she does not require validation, and subsequently she becomes...

A woman needs a man, more than a man needs a woman. We can thank prostitutes for that.

I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the temptation and the fear of that sin.

I think it is a duty I owe to my profession and to my sex to show that a woman has a right to the practice of her profession and cannot be condemned to abandon...

When considering female human beings, we should ask ourselves what kind of organisms become overjoyed when presented with decapitated plants as gifts? I suppose we should consider ourselves fortunate they do not become overjoyed when...

Thanks to arranged marriages: There are countless women who have never been their husband’s girlfriend.

We are out sisters’ keepers.

I want to listen to accomplished women scarred by sexism that still walk in elegance and kindness; hear powerful men that have a heart to serve. I want to talk to the brokenhearted that still...

And I’m not going to get any thinner or any younger, my ass is going to hit the ground, if it hasn’t already–and I want to be with somebody who can still see me in...

Behind every successful woman are people who bring out the best in her, encourage her and cheer her on!

All children should be taught to unconditionally accept, approve, admire, appreciate, forgive, trust, and ultimately, love their own person.

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

Life is not a competition between men and woman. It is a collaboration.

Patriarchy, reformed or unreformed, is patriarchy still: its worst abuses purged or foresworn, it might actually be more stable and secure than before.

Love tames the benumbed beast. A man is put to use regarding a woman’s physical safety, but a woman is put to use regarding a man’s mental safety.

LADY BRACKNELLThirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. Lady Dumbleton is an instance in...

Women are almost two thirds more likely than men to believe in God, a major study of attitudes among middle aged Britons has found, says The Telegraph. Well, men are twice more likely than God...

Love has no past tense.

She was heavier than he expected – women always are.

She was mined for the childrenin her, one daughter, then another, a short seam, quick to clay, and not a single son to save them.

Enough about my beauty,” Buttercup said. “Everybody always talks about how beautiful I am. I’ve got a mind, Westley. Talk about that.

I have written this book to encourage women to dream big, forge a path through the obstacles, and achieve their full potential. I am hoping that each woman will set her own goals and reach...

She dreamed about knights in armour and glorious quests, and sometimes in these dreams she was a knight and sometimes she was a lovely lady who watched a particular knight and hoped that, when he...

Women have rooms inside of us men cannot fathom. It’s where we store the depths of the hurt we’ve been dealt.Where we store the deep love we never want to lose.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

Chastity … has, even now, a religious importance in a woman’s life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day...

Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?

I was asked the other day in which era I would choose to live. As a historical novelist, it comes up sometimes. As a woman I’d have to say I’d like to live in the...

It felt as though they were the only people in the world, two young women about to bury the symbol of their helplessness, as if that’s all it would take to make them whole again.

If you’d been a fly on a wall in the ladies’ restroom, you’d see the women swigging from flasks. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have any drinks until midnight.

For, what is the purpose of true love, other than to rescue another from one’s self? Why is that not the first thing we look for?

She gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer. “You men! You filthy dirty pigs! You’re all the same, all of you....

Isn’t it better just to make your own money, and then spend it how and when you want, and with dignity?

Women are never so strong as after their defeat.

Everyone is a social animal and everyone is socially relevant..Everyone is responsible to contribute in whatever way they can..The ‘Contribution’ needs no one’s approval..It just needs to be done

It seems to make little sense how a person’s self-worth or self-confidence should be wrapped up in how much their jacket is worth or what shoe they are wearing. Does a person’s round or pointy-tip...

A woman in love with herself is magnetic.

Men can be pitiless towards a woman whose body has eluded them, particularly if this is thanks to their own cowardice.

If you get all tangled up, just tango on.

Two years hence you will be as calm as I am now, – and far, far happier, I trust, for you are a man and free to act as you please

You and those shot-glass eyes, deep swirling pools of 80-proof firewater, with the depth and profundity of Saturn’s spinning pulsars…

Just like in the workplace, women who are good workers are the best workers.

You are a stupid fucking woman, Emily Colt. Just like all your kind. I know you hate Americans, but—I never said I hated Americans, Sergei spat. I said your kind. Women. It doesn’t matter to...

Independence is a complex word in a foreign tongue. To resist occupation, whether you’re a nation or merely a woman, you must understand the language of your enemy. Conquest and liberation and democrac and divorce...

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work … a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

I come across too much material on “how to make a man want you”, “how to make a man commit”, “how to make a man finally pop the question”, “how to make a man take...

Such a number of nights,’ said the girl, with a touch of woman’s tenderness, which communicated something like sweetness of tone, even to her voice; ‘such a number of nights as I’ve been patient with...

Man…heats up like a lightbulb: red hot in the twinkling of an eye and cold again in a flash. The female, on the other hand…heats up like an iron. Slowly, over a low heat, like...