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 here. I’m still in here. And I don’t want to be resented or despised for changing…I’d rather be alone.

Powerful women always interpret hostility as unrequited love.

Never go to another woman about your woman. Not unless you want an insidious form of advice.

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 point. To my own knowledge she has been thirty-five ever since she arrived at the age of forty, which was...

I believe all people are assholes. You won’t find anyone that you like. You’ll just find someone you dislike a little less than the last asshole. And I can’t wait for that day. To have a woman that I can say I dislike a little less than all the other assholes.

There are two important days in a woman’s life: the day she is born and the day she finds out why.

For men, as a rule, love is but an episode which takes place among the other affairs of the day, and the emphasis laid on it in novels gives it an importance which is untrue to life. There are few men to whom it is the most important thing in the world, and they are...

I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made. When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I’m going to bring up my daughter so that she’s free and can stand on her own...

Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed.

The way you think about yourself determines your reality. You are not being hurt by the way people think about you. Many of those people are a reflection of how you think about yourself.

Catherine [of Siena] sent the Pope five oranges which she had candied and covered with gold leaf… She develops the theme of the difference between the bitter and the sweet pain, and gives the Pope a recipe for making candied oranges.

[T]he definition of ‘crazy’ in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to fuck her anymore.

A woman will endure many wounds in her lifetime, but the betrayal of a friend is one of the most difficult to overcome.

Berlin was charismatic in the roguish way of a love… It was a lover who was a little dangerous in ways that didn’t always show, keeping you a bit on edge, a bit in love and endlessly forgiving because he made her feel that she was exactly where she was meant to be… Berlin made...

Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.

Gods, I wish the world was full of passive women.He thougt for a moment longer, then scowled. On second thoughts, what a nightmare that’d be. It’s the job of a man to fan the spark into flames, not quench it…

There are things that man is not meant to interfere with, and the robust yet fragile temper of a woman is one of them.

Honor women! They strew celestial roses on the pathway of our terrestrial life.

If you boys… you men can do what has to be done when you’d rather do almost anything else, why do you think I will do less? Or Egwene

Let most men have a finger and they will have the whole hand before you know. Let a clan cheif have a finger and he will have the entire arm.

Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.

It’s your world, but I make my way in it. At fifteen, no, I couldn’t stand up to you. The age of illusions, when we know nothing, we hope for everything; we’re wandering in a mist … And the half of the world that’s never had any use for us, suddenly is besieging us. You...

The words, I love you, are empty without clarification. Women prefer to be told what they can expect. It is measurable like a Weight Watcher’s diet, with extra points at the end of the week if you don’t cheat.

She was a stranger, but not just any stranger. She was “the stranger”. And of course, that was the difference that made everyone’s emotions stranger.

If you write it down, you can make it happen.

No one invites you to the top – you have to claw your way up. When you get there, you will sit with the others who were also uninvited – giggling.

Are you listening, Jasper? Sometimes you’ll be walking in the city late at night, and a woman walking in front of you will spin her head around and then cross the street simply because some members of your gender rape women and molest children!

In particular, husbands and wives who do poorly at nonverbal communication tend to be dissatisfied with their marriages. Moreover, when such problems occur, it’s usually the husband’s fault .In the first ingenious study of this sort, Patricia Noller (1980) found thathusbands in unhappy marriages sent more confusing messages and made more decoding errors than happy...

We were still at the age when girls are years older than guy, and the guys grow up by doing their best when the girls need them to.

I embrace the label of bad feminist because I am human. I am messy. I’m not trying to be an example. I am not trying to be perfect. I am not trying to say I have all the answers. I am not trying to say I’m right. I am just trying—trying to support what I...

I don’t want you to be young and beautiful. I only want one thing. I want you to be kind-hearted – and not just towards cats and dogs.

Heaven help us! The girls have only to turn the tables,and say of one of their own sex,’She is as vain as a man,’ and they will have perfect reason. The bearded creatures are quite as eager for praise, quite as finikin over their toilets, quite as proud of their personal advantages, quite as conscious...

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

I think women who are currently following a low-fat diet should be encouraged to do so. We didn’t see any unfavorable effects. For women who are at high risk for breast cancer, they should talk it over with their physicians whether adopting a low-fat diet might be warranted.

But that would leave Paxton to fend for herself, and the last thing any woman wanted in this kind of situation was to look around and see all the people who could help her doing nothing.

From women’s eyes this doctrine I derive:They sparkle still the right Promethean fire;They are the books, the arts, the academes,That show, contain and nourish all the world.

Every time we cheer the downfall of a powerful woman, we’re giving ourselves the message that power is bad and we shouldn’t desire it. Every time we revel in a beautiful woman’s aging or weight gain, we reinforce the idea that we, too, are less valuable if we are old or overweight. Every time we...

Although previous studies had suggested that friendship–male and female–could be a powerful antidote to stress, more recent research indicates that broken promises, dashed expectations, and other side effects of friendship gone wrong can actually raise the level of stress in our lives, often to disastrous effect.

Once they have dedicated themselves to a cause, women will fight to the end for it.

While I’m frustrated at the amount I’m expected to take on in the present, the 1950s woman was frustrated by being excluded – not being allowed to take things on at all.

Every woman is a gift when she becomes a daughter, Every woman is beautiful when she becomes a lover, Every woman is special when she becomes a wife, Every woman is a god when she becomes a Mother

Any woman who dares to make her own destiny will always put herself in danger.

She felt she had been created by the demands of others, by their insatiable appetite for something beyond ordinary life. They craved a world without death and they had spotted her, in their hunger, like wolves alert to any poor sheep that might stray from the fold and stand gazing ignorantly up at the stars.

Men read maps better than women because only men can understand the concept of an inch equaling a hundred miles.

The baby should always be saved in preference to the mother. That is the advice of the Holy Church, you know that. I was only reminding women of their duty. There is no need to make everything so personal, Margaret. You make everything into your own tragedy.

Poor little girl. Poor little girl,” Nan says, and at first I think she is speaking of the baby, perhaps it is a girl after all. But then I realize she is speaking of me, a girl of thirteen years, whose own mother has said that they can let her die as long as a...

What was it that marked me as a woman and was I prepared to let it go?

idiot” comes from a Greek root meaning private person. Idiocy is the female defect: intent on their private lives, women follow their fate through a darkness deep as that cast by malformed cells in the brain. It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy: men are so obsessed by public affairs that...

Looking at my life through the lens of history has made me increasingly grateful to standout women who pushed those boundaries to make the changes from which I have benefited.

Ladies should also remember that gentlemen look more to the effect of a dress in setting off the figure and countenance of a lady than to its cost. Very few gentlemen have any idea the value of ladies’ dresses. This is a subject for female criticism. Beauty of person and elegance of manners in women...