Ma vision de l’amour n’a pas changé, mais ma vision du monde, oui. C’est super agréable d’être lesbienne. Je me sens moins concernée par la féminité, par l’approbation des hommes, par tous ces trucs qu’on...

If you only attract Mr. Wrong or Ms. Crazy, evaluate the common thread in this diversity of people: YOU!

Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.Act II

But usually not. Usually she thinks of the path to his house, whether deer had eaten the tops of the fiddleheads, why they don’t eat the peppermint saprophytes sprouting along the creek; or she visualizes...

Catherine [of Siena] sent the Pope five oranges which she had candied and covered with gold leaf… She develops the theme of the difference between the bitter and the sweet pain, and gives the Pope...

I could have forgiven it if he’d fallen desperately in love with someone and gone off with her. I should have thought that natural. I shouldn’t really have blamed him. I should have thought he...

My mother gave it to me mother, who passed it to me. Now is the right time to give it to you. Not just because you’re leaving and will need something that always connects you...

Just as there is no warning for childbirth, there is no preparation for the sight of a first child… There should be a song for women to sing at this moment, or a prayer to...

Nothing in this World is Static…Everything is Kinetic..If there is no ‘progression’…there is bound to be ‘regression’…

Females in general are embodiment of alluring mysteries that is beyond mortal capacity to decipher or understand.

How do you know if someone loves herself? No hairstyle, religion, or ethnicity has ownership of self-love or a greater propensity toward self-hatred. The best way to tell if a woman loves herself is by...

A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman’s love, however badly he may have treated her.

Coincidentally, a good age for a Japanese girl is younger than twenty five, because that’s when she turns into a ‘Christmas Cake’. Christmas cakes, as everyone knows, are desirable before the twenty fifth but afterward...

Now say, have women worth, or have they none? Or had they some, but with our Queen is’t gone? Nay Masculines, you have thus tax’d us long, But she, though dead, will vindicate our wrong....

Male experience is what patriarchal culture uses to represent human experience, even when it is women who most often live it.

…take down your baby bump photos from Facebook, take down pictures of your kids too. It is your job to protect your children and not parade them around like little circus freaks or glorified mini-you’s.

What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman.

As women break reeds for a mattress with a stone, thus do I break thy member

My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great...

To be the object of desire is to be defined in the passive case.To exist in the passive case is to die in the passive case – that is, to be killed.This is the moral...

Men wouldn’t lie that much to the women in their life, if the women don’t ask so many questions.

We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about.

As he defended the book one evening in the early 1980s at the Carnegie Endowment in New York, I knew that some of what he said was true enough, just as some of it was...

because I have the ability to use force and control to make others do as I please, I have the right to use this force and control.” It is the disease of corporate and imperial...

We want different things. Men want to have sex with a woman. Then they want to have sex with another woman. And then another. Then they want to eat cornflakes and sleep for a while,...

That men of this kind despise women, though a not uncommon belief, is one which hardly appears to be justified. Indeed, though naturally not inclined to ‘fall in love’ in this direction, such men are...

Milton’s Eve! Milton’s Eve! … Milton tried to see the first woman; but Cary, he saw her not … I would beg to remind him that the first men of the earth were Titans, and...

My heart does not desire what my eyes does not admire.

What may intimidate a man is a woman who thinks with her mind before she feels with her heart. Nevertheless what determines the strength in the man is his ability to accept one when he...

You’re not theone.” We are quite sure you will kill us or yourself or both—or even worse, cry and yell at us.

She looked like the kind of woman I could fall in love with. Trouble is, she was standing next to the kind of woman I’d like to make love to.

…to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humour, to make them visible so that can not be ravaged in the dark without great consequence.

Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxi pad commercial, windex commercial – you’d think all women do is clean and bleed.

He told himself she wasn’t really such a bad person, she was just a pest, she was sticky, there was something misplaced in her make-up, something that kept her from fading clear of people when...

You start out happy that you have no hips or boobs. All of a sudden you get them, and it feels sloppy. Then just when you start liking them, they start drooping.

White pussy is nothin but trouble.

When I was your age…I wish I’d known that I already had everything I needed within myself to be happy, instead of looking for happiness at beauty counters.

She’s young and beautiful, which is twice as good as old and ugly. Some people are both, and some people are both.

I just want to say one thing. If I ever write a novel again, it’s going to be in defense of weak women, inept and codependent women. I’m going to talk about all the great...

Nature is woman’s best friend,’ she [Yasmina] often said. ‘If you’re having troubles, you just swim in the water, stretch out in a field, or look up at the stars. That’s how a woman cures...

I wish I had money now. If only I’d saved my allowance growing up, instead of squandering it on balls, balloons, booze, and floozies.

This virtuous and very industrious woman needs physical strength and ability to do the work of her life, the work of love.

Most men fear getting laughed at or humiliated by a romantic prospect while most women fear rape and death.

It is not Atlas who carries the world on his shoulders, but woman; and sometimes she plays with it as with a ball.

Sometimes being a good friend is a simple as making yourself available.

When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women

It grieved him plaguily, he said, to see the nuptial couch defrauded of its dearest pledges: and to reflect upon so many agreeable females with rich jointures, a prey for the vilest bonzes, who hide...

What feminists refer to as microaggressions, the rest of us sane adults call life….The concept of microaggressions encourages women to think that every single thing in the world is, or should be, about them. It...

Why, why, her mind stuttered, I believe women could manage everything in the world without men’s help–except having babies, and God knows, no woman in her right mind would have babies if she could help...

Harry,” Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, “what you know about women, I could juggle.