I learned to put my trust in God and to see Him as my strength. Long ago I set my mind to be a free person and not to give in to fear. I always...

What [Sarah] Palin so beguilingly represented … was a form of female power that was utterly digestible to those who had no intellectual or political use for actual women: feminism without the feminists.

He is a young man with a future of power and opportunity and we are young women destined to be either wives and mothers at the very best, or spinster parasites at the worst.

Why were girls in such a hurry to grow up? Agatha would never understand. Childhood was magical. Leaving it behind was a magnificent loss.

Are you listening, Jasper? Sometimes you’ll be walking in the city late at night, and a woman walking in front of you will spin her head around and then cross the street simply because some...

[The] women’s movement has been a blessing in many ways. [But] even as we have gained more physical and social opportunities, we are more spiritually and emotionally enslaved than ever in other arenas. Why? Because...

Historical Re-creation, he thought glumly, as they picked their way across, under, over or through the boulders and insect-buzzing heaps of splintered timber, with streamlets running everywhere. Only we do it with people dressing up...

Boys are just boys after all, but sometimes girls really seem to be the turn of a pale wrist, or the sudden jut of a hip, or a clutch of very dark hair falling across...

You know about the Mother Goddess – the first female god, a fat woman with a lion on one side and a child between her legs. She was the first god of humankind. Do you...

Are you ready to be ‘WHO YOU ARE’? Or have we allowed ourselves to ‘BE’ because of others? Have we given ‘PERMISSION to people to ‘CO-SIGN’ on our lives??? REMEMBER..Most people will NEVER give you...

I photography women as I liked to fell in love of them.

If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

Usually adult males who are unable to make emotional connections with the women they choose to be intimate with are frozen in time, unable to allow themselves to love for fear that the loved one...

Your hard-won triumphs can be wholly negated if you live in a climate where your victories are seen as threatening, incorrect, distasteful, or — most crucially of all, for a teenage girl — simply uncool....

[In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory, the total self-abnegation...

If people would take me seriously, I’d never find out anything significant about them.

I will not forgive. I will inflict and invite suffering-all our lives. As Bunni grows up she’ll hear from her mother that her father is cruel,capricious, tyrannical person. Bunni won’t love me. Everyone will take...

If you are lucky, there is a moment in your life when you have some say as to what your currency is going to be. I decided early on it was not going to be...

My mother’s dress bears the stains of her life:blueberries, blood, bleach, and breast milk;She cradles in her arms a lifetime of love and sorrow;Its brilliance nearly blinds me.

Even to me the issue of “stay small, sweet, quiet, and modest” sounds like an outdated problem, but the truth is that women still run into those demands whenever we find and use our voices.

I just believe that us as women— should not criticize nor pull down other women. And why? Because we’re all just trying our best to be beautiful! We all just want to be loved, we...

This is what it means to be a woman in this world. Every step is a bargain with pain. Make your black deals in the black wood and decide what you’ll trade for power. For...

Angels should never be exposed to the dire darkness of despair in the tunnel of cosmic nothingness, and although I never believed such maddening thoughts; I couldn’t help but feel spiritual in her presence.

Successful leaders know how to line up support for their initiatives and create the right environment for change and innovation.

She writes things with her movements that I for the life of me could never write with a pen.

He lashed the belt against my ass again, and I was starting to feel like I was some supernatural being that was more than he was. He was just human, but I felt like something...

I look at everything. God gave me eyes and I look at women and men and subway excavations and moving pictures and the little flowers of the field. I casually inspect the universe.

I will never deny that life isn’t fair. It seems as though when a woman leaves a man she is strong and independent, but when a man leaves a woman he is a pig and...

All feminine claws, he said to himself, are sheathed in velvet; but they can hurt a good deal if they touch you on the sore places of the defects of your qualities–even merely with the...

A study in the Washington Post says that women havebetter verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: ‘Duh.

Her name is Denise, and she has green eyes and red hair. Well, this week. Last week her hair was dyed blonde, and she had blue eyes. Or maybe that was a different woman. I...

Aw honey. Today’s as important as forever.” Grandpa Joe in “Shave and a Haircut” Flash Warden and Other Stories

She asked me if I was seeing anybody else, and I said, No, the other woman is invisible.

man can not live on chocolate …. but women can

The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.

We think that women who are currently on a low-fat diet can confidently continue on such a diet.

We are expected to be pretty and well-dressed until we drop.

Gentle Mother, font of mercy,save our sons from war, we pray,stay the swords and stay the arrows,let them know a better day,Gentle Mother, strength of women,help our daughters through this fray,soothe the wrath and tame...

Harriet loved her new persona. As Maxine, she was courageous and accomplished, a woman of sophistication equally at home in Cannes or on the Indian subcontinent. As Maxine she didn’t walk, she strode; she did...

Move thy tongue,For silence is a sign of discontent.

Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.

Marriage is more than finding the right person…it is being the right person!

Funny how women are ashamed of their inner fairy whereas men are forever proudly displaying their inner cowboy or fireman

You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had...

That happens a lot with Shakespeare. The women go after what they want; the men wind up suckered into things.

That’s not normal.

There were some children round him playing in the dust on the paths. They had long fair hair, and with very earnest faces and solemn attention were making little mountains of sand so as to...

What would you like to do with my neck?’ I asked. ‘Seduce me with your words. Feel free.

No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

Susan hardly had begun to slow down when Tera appeared from between a couple of buildings and loped over to the car. I leaned forward, opened the door, and she got into the backseat. I...