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,...

Miss West is never idle. Below, in the big after-room, she does her own laundering. Nor will she let the steward touch her father’s fine linen. In the main cabin she has installed a sewing-machine....

A woman’s perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.

I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do.

Why do women always do this? Why are they so eager to blame themselves when someone treats them like sh*t? A guy would take a cheese grater to his tongue before admitting he screwed up.

The real woman does not want to be equal but different.

Men and women think about love differently. The main difference is that men simply don’t think about it.

I had a dream about you. Of all the flowers I’ve ever loved, you were the one who looked most like a woman. The others didn’t look like men, unless you count my Uncle Butch,...

I’ve often been told I fight like a girl, probably because from the moment I whip off my bra, my opponent knows I mean business.

He found Luciana sitting alone at a table in the Allied officers’ night club, where the drunken Anzac major who had brought her there had been stupid enough to desert her for the ribald company...

In the meantime: (1) be direct; (2) remember that, being smarter than men, women respond to courtesy and kindness; (3) if you want to know what kind of a wife someone will make, observe her...

Women made such swell friends. Awfully swell. In the first place, you had to be in love with a woman to have a basis of friendship.