Why do gentlemen’s voices carry so clearly, when women’s are so easily stifled?

Being a princess isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

He realized that the ritualized world he had dismissed as feminine was in fact civilization.

Happiness is part of being whole. It means having an understanding of your identity and purpose, an established feeling of acceptance and value, and a sense of destiny, joy, and peace — all of which...

A man fishes for two reasons: he’s either sport fishing or fishing to eat, which means he’s either going to try to catch the biggest fish he can, take a picture of it, admire it...

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

Most women are more into real estate than sex. They want to own you.

When in a relationship, a real man doesn’t make his woman jealous of others, he makes others jealous of his woman.

That was what stuck in the craws of all the good women of Deptford: Mrs Dempster had not been raped, as a decent woman would have been—no, she had yielded because a man wanted her....

As more women lean in to their careers, more men need to lean in to their families. We need to encourage men to be more ambitious in their homes.

The best I can say, it’s like this. A man’s in his skin, see, like a nut in its shell … It’s hard and strong, that shell, and it’s all full of him. Full of...

Now we really like to put people in boxes. As men, we do it because we don’t understand characters that aren’t ourselves and we aren’t willing to put ourselves in the skin of those characters...

Man is a play station whereas a woman will always remain at an emotion station.

No one is on this road, she thought. No one but us. Everyone knows this isn’t the place to be at three o’clock on a summer afternoon. Everyone but us.

Was once lost always lost really true of chastity?

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

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.

I never could understand why some writers treat women as helpless. Every woman I know is strong in her own unique way.

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

Now, there is a tendency at a point like this to look over one’s shoulder at the cover artist and start going on at length about leather, tightboots and naked blades.Words like ‘full’, ‘round’ and...

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...

[Women] complain about many clerks who attribute all sorts of faults to them and who compose works about them in rhyme, prose, and verse, criticizing their conduct in a variety of different ways. They then...

Saying NO is polite , possible and perfectly acceptable!

I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it, nowhere does she enjoy a higher station. And if anyone...

Flowers for me are just things to give to a beatiful woman.

Visionary feminism is a wise and loving politics. It is rooted in the love of male and female being, refusing to privilege one over the other. The soul of feminist politics is the commitment to...

I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.

How can you measure progress if you don’t know what it costs and who has paid for it? How can the “market” put a price on things – food, clothes, electricity, running water – when...

There are women who make things better… simply by showing up. There are women who make things happen. There are women who make their way. There are women who make a difference. And women who...

And oh, how she pitched herself into things. She would draw pictures all day long for weeks on end, then throw out the pencils and never draw another thing. Then it was embroidery with her,...

I wonder how many women are held up in their bed waiting to be sung to, served wine to, read poetry to, kissed slowly with.

Girls can do anything boys can do in high heels!

She was no malleable, since frigid, substance upon which desires might be executed; she was not a true prostitute for she was the object on which men prostituted themselves.

Today I wondered why my eyelashes aren’t thick enough and why my feet aren’t small enough. Then it hit me. Why do we take these insignificant things like millimeters on lashes and shoeboxes and then...

Women had cup sizes to track their development. Men had a ruler and hope.

Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

In youth, it was a way I had,To do my best to please.And change, with every passing ladTo suit his theories.But now I know the things I knowAnd do the things I do,And if you...

It was the impatience of the way he tore my panties from my body, that really turned me on: I was all he could think of, as his lust got the better of him. I...

A woman being able to make a man genuinely laugh leaves a much better impression on him than a woman who wants them to feel like she is nothing more than a sex object… believe...

Every woman is different in her own special way.

In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30.

The women in your family have never lost touch with one another. Death is a path we take to meet on the other side.

Some guy said to me: Don’t you think you’re too old to sing rock n’ roll?I said: You’d better check with Mick Jagger.

I thought she was older than she was, and I thought she was younger than she was. She looked older, but she acted younger, so no matter what her age was, I was surprised by...

The girl I used to love is no longer a girl, and this saddens me more than our separation. It puts my own mortality vividly on display, in contrast to my eternally youthful memories.

I have never deceived anyone, for I have never belonged to anyone. My independence was all my wealth: I have known no other happiness.

If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.

I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

In a shelter meant for battered women, there were only two reasons a person would decide to leave. One, she had decided to launch out on her own and begin a new life. Or two,...