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.

At times there’s something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism.Build a dam to take away water AWAY from 40 million people. Build a dam to pretend to BRING water to 40 million people. Who...

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the most sweeping civil rights legislation of its day, and included women’s rights as part of its reforms. Ironically, the section on women’s rights was added by a...

Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell.

Listen to me, Amin,” I said slowly. “Listen to me very carefully. Nothing is the same. Nothing will ever be the same again. There lives on this earth a woman who can be my friend...

Women are a key group,

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...