If you put any effort into anything you do and have a strong sense of self to the point where you don’t even question your choices before you walk out of the house— you’re a...

Sam Littleton was a beautiful woman who would try to play women’s games. That meant that if he asked her if she was upset with him about something, she would do what women all do...

Hijab adalah pembebasan dari ketergantungan kosmetik dan topeng. Hijab adalah pembebasan untuk jujur pada hatimu. Hijab adalah pembebas jiwamu dari rantai-rantai duniawi.

Acknowledging that a woman’s right to be safe from a gender-based attack was a “civil right,” I believed, was critically important in changing the American consciousness. When a right reaches the status and categorization of...

Kendime söz veriyorum. Benim kızımı hayatındaki erkekler tanımlamayacak. Demeyecek ki: ‘Peki hiçbir erkeğin kalbi durmazsa benim yüzümden?’ Ona şunu sormayı öğreteceğim: ‘Hangi erkeğin kalbi benim için durmaya layık?

There is another version of the tale. That is the tale the women tell each other, in their private language that the men-children are not taught, and that the old men are too wise to...

Some women become reckless with the fire, some find every way to put it out and rise above with the ashes left behind.

Rather than majoring in frivolities, women should be educated in useful subjects and ‘be furnished with a stock of ideas, and principles, and qualifications, and habits, ready to be applied and appropriated…’ – Hannah More

This murdered girl troubles me. After the first shock, nobody at school says much about her. Even Cordelia does not want to talk about her. It’s as if this girl has done something shameful, herself,...

I’m interested in things women do that aren’t spoken about. Manto’s stories let me breathe. They make me feel like less of a monster.

Ah! A man who doesn’t know how to watch love is so silly. You really need a lesson.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

One of the greatest skills—and gifts—is to focus on a person. Make them feel as though they’re the only person in the world.

And get some self-esteem. What the fuck is that? It’s so annoying to see a pretty girl see herself as not worthy. You know what it makes us guys think you aren’t worthy? We see...

Alexander the Great slept with ‘The Iliad’ beneath his pillow. During the waning moon, I cradle Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ as if it were the sweet body of a woman.

Don’t be afraid when you have to pray fervently because of your circumstances. God is wanting to do something great through you!

Realize that maturity does not come with age but with acceptance of responsibility.

To us, your power comes from one simple thing: you’re a woman, and we men will doanything humanly possible to impress you so that, ultimately, we can be with you. You’re the driving force behind...

I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It’s a common failing.

First, they set the hook with mind-bending kinky shit. Then a year later you’re living in a Talking Heads song, dressed like Teddy Ruxpin, living with a strange woman in a big house full of...

…you don’t have to choose between smart and sexy. You can have both. You are both.

Told often enough that they are the source of sin, women may well begin feeling guilty as they accept the necessity for penance. Taught effectively enough that they are irrelevant to the important processes of...

[F]eminism wasn’t supposed to make us feel guilty, or prod us into constant competition over who is raising children better, organizing more cooperative marriages, or getting less sleep. It was supposed to make us free...

If women had power, what would men be but women who can’t bear children? And what would women be but men who can?…I mean, men give her [a queen] power. They let her use their...

It was happening. At least in that little section of the salon, women were connecting and doing what women knew how to do, show compassion, nurturing—helping someone fit in.

Was it wisdom? Was it knowledge? Was it, once more, the deceptiveness of beauty, so that all one’s perceptions, half-way to truth, were tangled in a golden mesh? Or did she lock up within her...

For as men have fists and heads to defend themselves, so women have a gentleness of silence about them, a barrier built of things of the spirit, of pain, of quiet, of helplessness, of grace,...

idiot” comes from a Greek root meaning private person. Idiocy is the female defect: intent on their private lives, women follow their fate through a darkness deep as that cast by malformed cells in the...

She felt she had been created by the demands of others, by their insatiable appetite for something beyond ordinary life. They craved a world without death and they had spotted her, in their hunger, like...

Women are suspicious. Men are devious. Infinite loop.

No one invites you to the top – you have to claw your way up. When you get there, you will sit with the others who were also uninvited – giggling.

She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.

The Fool held his breath. On long nights on the hard flagstones he had dreamed of women like her. Although, if he really thought about it, not much like her; they were better endowed around...

Last year, when Zora was a freshman, sophomores had seemed altogether a different kind of human: so very definite in their tastes and opinions, in ther loves and ideas. Zora woke up this morning hopeful...

‪#‎DREAM‬ ‪#‎BIG‬ Dreaming is Legal..Dreaming Big is not illegal either.. 🙂

How are we tending to the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual sides to the ‘vehicle’ of our life…our body.This garden needs constant care and constant growth to stay alive and healthy in all possible senses

No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.

Women have traditionally took secondary roles to men. I want to be the boss not the secretary.

When you find yourself in a very hard situation, a circumstance that holds you by the balls, that’s the time you wish you were created a woman!(women don’t own balls)

Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version.

It may upset my secret sisters that I say this, but between you and me, if you’re so fortunate as to have captured the perfect male, peeling off that chain-mail bikini and becoming a part-time...

I’m not sure how we got to this place, where a girl’s only value is in what kind of marriage she has, how capable she is of keeping a man happy.

Generally, I decided, it was better to wait, if you had any feeling for the individual. If you hated her right off, it was better to fuck her right off; if you didn’t, it was...

And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see...

A Muslim must not hate his wife and if he be displeased with one bad quality in her, then let him be pleased with another that is good.

Jesus waited three days to come back to life. It was perfect! If he had only waited one day, a lot of people wouldn’t have even heard he died. They’d be all, “Hey Jesus, what...

A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.

She had been struck by the figure of a woman’s back in a mirror. She stopped and looked. The dress the figure wore was the color called ashes of roses, and Ada stood, held in...

Oh, I simply can’t think. When I really want to depress myself, I think of all the brilliant men I know, married to their stupid wives. Enough to break your heart, it really is

Helena, like many women who ruled their own lives, adored being told what to do when there was no obligation to follow the advice given.