There have been times when I’ve been working with women and they just said, ‘Hey, I’ve faked it before. I can fake it again.’

I saw this beautiful girl the other day. She had an ass behind her that seemed to go on for days. In fact, I’m still going on about her.

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.

If anger were mileage, I’d be a very frequent flyer, right up there in First Class.

I don’t think he was ever happy unless someone was in love with him, responding to him like filings to a magnet, helping him to explain himself, promising him something. What it was I do...

An important aspect of the ebbing of sex was that other things became interesting. Sex obliterates the individuality of young women more often than it does that of young men, because so much more of...

I couldn’t imagine being a girl. The bullshit routine they had to go through just to get out the door consumed half of their lives.

every woman is beautifulbeyond what a magazine can see,whether she’s a size larger than 10or a size smaller than 3.

I was more at home in my father’s world. People like Mr. Heck Tate did not trap you with innocent questions to make fun of you; even Jem was not highly critical unless you said...

When I see a beautiful woman, my heart doesn’t go “Thump, thump.” It goes “Hush, hush.” I’m very secretive about my feelings.

My father was a man, and I know the sex pretty well.

Love may start out as a good feeling, but to love someone long-term is an act of the will.

A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

Believe me, my boy, women don’t love a man for himself but as a weapon against other women.

Many are the women who can take their clothes off seductively, but women who can charm as they dress?

[I]f you seek in every way to minimise my firm beliefs by your anti-feminist attacks, please recall that a small dagger or knife point can pierce a great, bulging sack and that a small fly...

Women, you have all this power, I’m telling you. In business, you have something called an inferred fiduciary duty to yourself. Look at the other hugely successful women in industry, commerce, science and everywhere else...

Most of our suffering comes from resisting what is already here, particularly our feelings. All any feeling wants is to be welcomed, touched, allowed. It wants attention. It wants kindness. If you treated your feelings...

When you grow up as a girl, it is like there are faint chalk lines traced approximately three inches around your entire body at all times, drawn by society and often religion and family and...

Two brothers. Two different worlds. Different mothers, of course. Did that explain it? Women usually explained everything.

When you least expect it, you run in to an old friend from school, or the neighbour’s cat, not Mary the Virgin Mother of God.

At the same time we see the phenomenon of successful women adopting the standards of men with a vengeance. Will women’s march to power ascendancy, won against all odds, mean that they too will choose...

Louise was an urbanite, she preferred the gut-thrilling sound of an emergency siren slicing through the night to the noise of country birds at dawn. Pub brawls, rackety roadworks, mugged tourists, the badlands on a...

We don’t know the exact cause of this. But it is probably because lungs of women are generally smaller (than men’s),

Don’t do that to yourself, Spatzchen, Elsa thought. The world is full of Rowenas, women who could cut you to the quick with their cruel appraisals of what they think you are. You have to...

Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands.

If it is perfectly acceptable for a widow to disfigure herself or commit suicide to save face for her husband’s family, why should a mother not be moved to extreme action by the loss of...

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

so many things are there to say.time is short and I have to get many as well as want to give too many.when you told me ‘it is your mistake”-I cried,shout at me.thinking why I...

He didn’t like to see either of the women in his family disappointed; it ruined perfectly good meals.

It is a severe cruelty inflicted upon women…that we should be the ones who so desperately need love…affection…acceptance.And yet, we suffer…many of us, for lack of it throughout our entire lives.”-Shackles of Honor

It says a lot about Sandberg’s brand of feminism that this campaign focuses on policing language rather than bringing attention to important issues that have real impact on women and girls

Organizations like the UN do a lot of good, but there are certain basic realities they never seem to grasp …Maybe the most important truth that eludes these organizations is that it’s insulting when outsiders...

….let her be loved not only for her beauty and amiable character, but also for her strength of mind and loftiness of purpose, which enliven and raise the feeble and the timid and ward off...

Beautiful women are always drawn to men they think will keep them beautiful.

When she can’t bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt.

Gavin has tried quoting Yeats to the effect that women must labour to be beautiful, but Reynolds–who used to be a passionate Yeats fan–is now of the opinion that Yeats is entitled to his point...

As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more dangerous place for women.

The rifts in this ancient wall continue to be patched with exhortations to women to avoid challenging the norm even if it means faking orgasm and sacrificing honesty in their intimate relationships with men. In...

All civilized wo/men are prostitutes: Some sell what’s between their legs; the rest sell what’s between their ears.

Studies conducted in a city in Zimbabwe found that half of reported rape cases involve girls less than 15 years of age and that girls are most vulnerable to sexual abuse by male relatives, neighbors...

Like the absence of gender-specific terms such as glyany and androcracy from the vocabulary of historians, the systematic omission of women from accounts of our past serves to maintain a system founded on male-female thinking....

What do woman say to little boys? ” Stop fighting. Stop being so rough. Stop rough housing.” They’re boys you know, that’s kinda what they’re sapossed to do. So, men are sapossed to overcome all...

In general I strive for greatness and rational achievement, but I admit to you I’ve a terrible fondness for women, a tendency towards drunkenness, and a weakness for the fumes of the poppy—opium and other...

Men owe us what they imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.

A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.

I’ve said over and over again jokingly that the only way a woman can truly be completely satisfied is to get herself four different men—an old one, an ugly one, a Mandingo, and a gayguy....

Elk were mating now – The males were fighting, and they had to chase the females, which depleted the fat that both sexes had accumulated over the summer and thereby diminished their chances of surviving...

Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.

There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty.