I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.

Women often get dropped from memory, and then history.

When you limit a woman’s potential, you limit your own.

I make love with a focus and intensity that most people reserve for sleep.

Anyhow, with their extraordinary gift for, and experience in, affairs of the heart from the double point of view, both of the man and of the woman it is not difficult to see that these...

I think, quite frankly, that the world simply does not care for the complicated girls, the ones who seem too dark, too deep, too vibrant, too opinionated, the ones who are so intriguing that new...

I just thought: Oh goodness, you can wear nice clothes and get your hair done and still be a feminist and a serious intellectual.

If men are dogs, then women are desperate dogs.

Don’t demean what I know is one of your favorite body parts.

In a blind taste-test, my kisses were rated as Helen Kelleresque. Women love how the only sense I keenly possess is nonsense.

She said she loved me, and I believed her, because she was looking directly at another man when she said it.

Women dream a lot and man is the prince of that dream land.

maturity,” then every single woman I’ve dated has been at least twice my yage.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.

Clouds of confusionrolled into illusionHe veils perversionforcing her coercionHer body he takeswhile she flies awayunbelievable, she’s invisible

Used to be hewas my heart’s desire.His forthright gaze,his expert hands:I’d lie on the couch with my eyesclosed just thinking about it.Never about the factthat everything changes,that even this,my best passion,would not be immune.No, I...

I had a dream I was a samurai who invented the poncho, and I sold my ponchos to Mexico. The irony is… I invented them for women.

A wise man governs his eyes, not because it is wrong to delight in beauty, but because otherwise his delight may suffer transmutation into something very different.

The clue to everything a man should love and fear in her was there right from the start in the ironic smile that primed and swelled the archery of her full lips. There was pride...

God’s Word is the ultimate beauty treatment for every woman.

There are some who want to get married and others who don’t. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.

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.

No words. Just my finger pointing in silence. My finger silently saying, ’Unwrap me, darling.

The God of Christians raped mother of his messenger according to their manifest; later, their followers’ burned and tortured women like their fellow delusional God. The God of Muhammad hated women; he considered them half...

Huddled in her mink in the Kansas City airport, she had a vision of women writing about sex as openly as male writers, but quite, quite differently. Some women would treat sex much as men...

You may love, honor, and care for her, but someone else is doing what she needs.

That’s the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

Isn’t it wonderful to give birth to your own kind?

What was it about women and crying that made me feel like crap? They must have guilt pheromones in their tears.

She was never going to seek gainful employment again, that was for certain. She’d remain outside the public sector. She’d be an anarchist, she’d travel with jaguars. She was going to train herself to be...

One of her secret fantasies had been that, as a girl who could code, she would work in the one place where a geeky fat girl could get dates. It had not been entirely untrue....

Desire acts as a honey trap to the unwary male, luring him into unworthy and catastrophic enterprises. The beauty of the Narnian witches isn’t ancillary to their evil, but integral to it, one of the...

Strength is taking charge of your own destiny and not waiting on others to do so. You don’t have to swear and drink and beat people up and slay monsters. You’re allowed to cry and...

My MOTIVATION was struggling..I got Tired of it!

Like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.

After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.

There are men who wants only the woman; such are tagged, ‘real men’, and there are ones who want only their bodies; such are tagged, ‘fake men’, and there are others who wants neither the...

manly” emotions as patriotism, pride, conquest, and mastery are encouraged.

After all, a woman who doesn’t love cats is never going to be make a man happy.

This pre-eminence is something [men] have unjustly arrogated to themselves. And when it’s said that women must be subject to men, the phrase should be understood in the same sense as when we say we...

All a woman needs is a little pampering and a little perspective and she is ready to conquer the world.

En la medida que cada mujer se conozca, conocera de su contradictorio genero, pues, aunque todas podamos ser distintas, somos iguales: diosas hasta cuando retenemos agua; hadas, aunque perdamos los papeles, y brujas porque perdemos...

They are boiling with the pressured energy of explosive forces confined in a small space, and with the fervor of all religious movements in their early, purist stages. It is not enough to give lip...

A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made men curious. They seemed to think it had something to do with them.

Sometimes a woman will look back on what she had, not because she wants to go there but to motivate her to do better.