The emerging woman … will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied…strength and beauty must go together.

I put in no claims either for happiness, for gratification, or even for the common comforts of life: yet, surely, I had a right to exist!

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

Our simple daily decisions can become our best friend or our worst enemy. They can draw us towards our goals or send us orbiting into a galaxy far, far away. These are the days of...

In his experience with women, it was difficult to recover once things began to go wrong–once they had unreasonably decided that you were a person with whom they were not under any circumstances ever going...

I am sensible that to own an inclination for a man is to put one’s self wholly in his power; but sure you have generosity enough not to abuse it.

mangina.”Notice anything? The worst thing you can call a girl is a girl. The worst thing you can call a guy is a girl. Being a woman is the ultimate insult. Now tell me that’s...

Eğer bir gülümseme, onun yüzünde meydana gelen küçük bir değişiklikle başlıyor ve sonra tüm yüzüne yayılıyorsa… Ama yavaş yavaş… Suya taş atarsın hani, o taşın oluşturduğu halka büyür de yayılır ya… İşte onun gibi yayılıyorsa...

Men grow up expecting to be the hero of their own story. Women grow up expecting to be the supporting actress in somebody else’s. As a kid growing up with books and films and stories...

It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.

I spent a lot of time vacillating between wanting to be seen as attractive, being terrified by too much attention, and wanting to succeed and fit in without anyone’s noticing me.

Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women.

She hadn’t seen a doctor cry before, they usually don’t, that makes itharder.- Anita

A horny man is seen. A horny woman is heard.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied

Why can’t these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women.It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious...

Women without men, I realized then, are totally different creatures.

I can hear the roar of women’s silence

…some men say get them crying on your shoulder and you have the sheets half-unfurled already. Other fellows say get them laughing. I say get them drunk. I ordered up more Riesling…

She was not the sort of woman guys settle for. She was the one they lust after and strive for. She was the one who ruins other people’s relationships simply by existing, but she will...

The feminist movement as we have come to know it in recent decades is fundamentally a “con.”…As it is considered treasonous to criticise a sister feminist, no standards of accuracy or honesty are ever enforced....

The revolutionary woman knows the world she seeks to overthrow is precisely one in which love between equal human beings is well nigh impossible. We are still part of the ironical working-out of this, our...

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...