If you find the dividing line between fairy tales and reality, let me know. In my mind, the two run together, even though the intersections aren’t always obvious. The girl sitting quietly in class or...

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...

The woman is the home. That’s where she used to be, and that’s where she still is. You might ask me, What if a man tries to be part of the home — will the...

In Luke’s Gospel, Jesus is never unkind to the weak. He treats Martha with humiliating honesty, just as he would treat the male disciples.

It sometimes entered Mr. Pontellier’s mind to wonder if his wife were not growing a little unbalanced mentally. He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she...

Whoever has received knowledgeand eloquence in speech from Godshould not be silent or secretivebut demonstrate it willingly.When a great good is widely heard of,then, and only then, does it bloom,and when that good is praised...

He looked at her and tried to discover behind her lascivious expression the familiar features that he loved tenderly. It was as if he were looking at two images through the same lens, at two...

Finding The Man. Keeping The Man. Not scaring The Man, building up The Man, following The Man, soothing The Man, flattering The Man, deferring to The Man, changing your judgement for The Man, changing your...

The walls, where there was room, were well decorated with calendars and posters showing bright, improbable girls with pumped-up breasts and no hips – blondes, brunettes and redheads, but always with this bust development, so...

Casey glanced at her plate again, recalling the posters of her elementary school lunchroom: YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT. So, how much you ate indicated the quantity of your desire. Walter was also implying that...

Look, we say stuff to women all the time. We say we’ll call them, then we don’t. We tell them they’re beautiful, then spend the evening looking at other women. We say we don’t love...

Women take a much larger risk, evolutionarily speaking, when they have sex. Sex is also a much larger investment for women than it is for men. For this reason, women have emotional circuitry designed to...

In the book of Alma is a story that has fascinated e since I first read it. it is about a very colorful character named Moroni–not to be confused with the last survivor of the...

I might be the only person on the face of the earth that knows you’re the greatest woman on earth. I might be the only one who appreciates how amazing you are in every single...

Bir kadın olarak değil, kadın olmaya çalışırken sadece utandırılan bir hastaya dönüşeceksin ve iyileşmemek için dua edeceksin. Çünkü iyileştiğinde bütün bunların yeniden başladığını sanacaksın.

Already the people murmur that I am your enemybecause they say that in verse I give the world your me.They lie, Julia de Burgos. They lie, Julia de Burgos.Who rises in my verses is not...

Keep your expectations high, Not because you are better than anyone else, but because you have experienced enough pain; to realise, you won’t settle anymore.

George Clooney, Matt Dillon and Heath Ledger all wore tuxedos with black bow ties. Those guys outshone the women. They looked fresh. They looked handsome. They looked like Hollywood leading men.

Lilies used to be a movie theatre, before. Students went there a lot; every spring they had a Humphrey Bogart festival, with Lauren Bacall or Katherine Hepburn, women on their own, making up their minds....

Whenever a young thing wants to be free minus serious thought, she gets pregnant and then gets married. Voilà!

If a woman defined herself solely by the man she was with—and vice versa—the world would be a very shallow and insipid place, indeed.

High heels are a short (theist) woman’s (subconscious) way of telling God to go to hell … in public.

There are so many men, all endlessly attempting to sweep me off my feet. And there is one of you, trying just the opposite. Making sure my feet are firm beneath me, lest I fall.

Mother nature changes her looks for the same reason any woman changes her looks—to be noticed.

Those without color—say, dressed in all black—can go about almost unnoticed. Where the rainbow is conspicuous, their darkness acts as a kind of camouflage, masculine by contrast, and allows them to watch without being watched....

She who reconciles the ill-matched threadsOf her life, and weaves them gratefullyInto a single cloth – It’s she who drives the loudmouths from the hallAnd clears it for a different celebration.

For a female to write about her feelings, and then be portrayed as some clingy, insane, desperate girlfriend in need of making you marry her and have kids with her, I think that’s taking something...

Women that can work a camera with ease often work men just as effortlessly for both require the same commitment to vanity and manipulation.

One thing that became clear to me is that images of a divine mother are surprisingly important in the psychological wholeness of women, especially in the process of women taking up residence in their own...

Beauty always made a target of its possessor. Every other human quality was hidden easily enough – intelligence, talent, selfishness, even madness – but beauty would not be concealed.

When women turn on women, and take cheap shots at their decisions purely to score political points it serves as proof that feminism, as a movement, is dead and no longer relevant or credible.

It is ironic that even today men are judged by how much they have and women by how they look while both should be judged by how they act.

Obliging a lady with respect is to pay tribute to her womanhood in elevating society from her role as a daughter, sister, mother and wife.

I harbor ill feelings toward a society, and a clergy, that allows marriage partners to split over the smallest incompatibility, where divorce comes in a multitude of flavors, like Baskin Robbins ice cream, where men...

These young women aren’t going to convince their boyfriends to go see chick-flicks and watch Lifetime,

The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

I have no fear of men, as such, nor of their books. I have mixed with them–one or two of them particularly– almost as one of their own sex. I mean I have not felt...

Like almost all girls I don’t know the date of my birth: my parents did not trouble to record the day and the time. I only know the year and the season, and I only...

Benjamin Franklin was a real tomcat, no woman was safe from his lightening bolt

I embrace the label of bad feminist because I am human. I am messy. I’m not trying to be an example. I am not trying to be perfect. I am not trying to say I...

When every woman goes within, nurtures her true self and lives her passion, the whole world shifts.

I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made. When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never...

Among the things she said: ‘Women seem to possess all the natural gifts essential to a good portraitist… such as personality, patience, and intuition. The sitter ought to be the predominating factor in a successful...

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In every siutation , there is a FINE LINE between what is right and what is not so right.THAT is the MOMENT when one has to stop and look which way to go!! These MAGICAL...

Freedom is not an abstaction, nor is a little of it enough. A little more is not enough either. Having less, being less, empoverished in freedom and rights, women then invariably have less self-respect: less...

Women were supposed to be strong, but they weren’t really, they weren’t allowed to be.