She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be taken. And since old Tom and the children could not know hurt or...

Our culture sends some amazingly contradictory messages about what an ideal mother is like. Mothers try to live up to these ideals without recognizing the contradictions or the improbability of the task. As mothers, you...

An androgynous mind was not a male mind. It was a mind attuned to the full range of human experience, including the invisible lives of women.

Every woman feels that the greater her power over a man, the more impossible it is to leave him except by sudden flight: a fugitive precisely because a queen.

Budgeting has only one rule: Do not go over budget.

I drove in last night,’ he said. ‘I couldn’t sleep, it was too hot. So I went outside. I was feeling melancholy. Then I danced with a beautiful girl, and I felt better. What’s your...

My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable...

Aldatmanın (her türlüsünden) suçluluğu ile yerli yersiz hoşluklar, sevimlilikler yapan bir ırktı erkekler. Aldatmalarını kesin olarak ele veren tek şey de buydu hatta. Aldatan erkeklerin bu basiretsizliklerini anlamaksa, kadınlar için bir tercihti. Anlayan vardır, onu...

The gravel road widened into a large turnaround where three similar looking and designed brothels sat waiting for customers. They were called Sheila’s Front Porch, Tawny’s High Five Ranch and Miss Delilah’s House of Holies.”Nice,”...

Nancy Astor: “Winston, you are a drunk!”Winston Churchill: “And you, madam, are ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning.”(Reported exchange will Winston Churchill.

We don’t know much of anything about her. In those days, they didn’t write too much about women.

Time dims memory. But not that kind. Somewhere in a corner of the brain, one little cell never forgets. It keeps the song that, heard again, recreates the room, the person, the moment. It preserves...

People think needing a man is weak. I believe what is truly weak is not ALLOWING ourselves to surrender to our deepest desire to have a protective, strong, caring, masculine man in our life.

She has built her whole life on the foundation of beauty: each chiseled plane, each sloping dimple, each soft curve as crucial as keystones in the cathedral of her body.

A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.

I’m a huge supporter of women. What I’m not a supporter of liberalism. Feminism is what I oppose. Feminism has led women astray. I love the women’s movement, especially walking behind it.

What I personally knew about courting women could comfortably fit into a thimble without taking it off your finger first.

Why do we go to all this trouble’ Parker asked. ‘Men don’t notice anyway.”Because what we wear affects how we feel, how we act, how we move. And that they do notice. Especially the move....

Dogs and children vomit in distress. Women cry.(“Dial ‘O’ For Operator”)

The glance of women resembles certain combinations of wheels, which are tranquil in appearance yet formidable. You pass close to them every day, peaceably and with impunity, and without a suspicion of anything. A moment...

She who leads with her heart is never forgotten.

To Bette Davis, Gena Rowlands, Romy Schneider… To all actresses who have played actresses, to all women who act, to all men who act and become women, to all the people who want to be...

The true wealth of a man is not what’s in his pocket, but what’s in his heart.

Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.

To be a righteous woman during the winding up scenes on this earth, before the second coming of our Savior, is an especially noble calling… She has been placed here to help to enrich, to...

A Woman is home caring for her children! even if she can’t. Trapped in this well-built trap, A Woman blames her mother for luring her into it, while ensuring that her own daughter never gets...

Sometimes I feel that our bright blue sky is like a pregnant women’s belly.

The anti-feminism bacllash has been set off not by women’s achievement of full equality but by the increased possibility that they might win it. It is a pre-emptive strike that stops women long before they...

NO MUSE IS GOOD MUSETo be an Artist you need talent, as well as a wifewho washes the socks and the children,and returns phone calls and library books and types.In other words, the reason there...

Looking at my life through the lens of history has made me increasingly grateful to standout women who pushed those boundaries to make the changes from which I have benefited.

Yes, that’s what my mother used to do.” It went on to talk about how a woman could climb Everest, teach schoolchildren in Cambodia and win the Booker Prize but some people would still think...

Proper deformity shows not in the fiendSo horrid as in woman.

If you boys… you men can do what has to be done when you’d rather do almost anything else, why do you think I will do less? Or Egwene

[T]he definition of ‘crazy’ in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to fuck her anymore.

Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.

Whatever is our ‘contribution’ to a situation..Is all that we can ‘influence’ to alter/improve the situation..In our control therefore, is this INFLUENCE!

The moment we successfully learn to ‘swiftly acknowledge, accept, correct and learn’ from our mistakes, is the moment when to we will truly begin to SUCCEED!

Scratch most feminists and underneath there is a woman who longs to be a sex object, the difference is that is not all she longs to be.

And even when success comes, as I am sure it will, bear in mind that there are more quiet and enviable joys than to be among the most sought after women at a ball…

Dominator culture teaches all of us that the core of our identity is defined by the will to dominate and control others. We are taught that this will to dominate is more biologically hardwired in...

This thought strengthened in me my belief that all men, without exception, deserve to be pitied, if only because they are alive.

Hairspray and blusher, eyelash curlers, eye-shadow palettes the size of tea-trays. Even before they left school it was as if they were already rehearsing for some witless kind of womanhood.

There are worse things than being thirty-five, single, and female in New York. Like: Being twenty-five, singled, and female in New York. It’s a rite of passage few women would want to repeat. It’s about...

Women united can create movements. We can empower entire generations. We can build peace one action at a time. Together we rise. The time is now.

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women’s liberation…none was more alarming than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.

Men will always delight in a woman whose voice is lined with velvet.

Mother is in herself a concrete denial of the idea of sexual pleasure since her sexuality has been placed at the service of reproductive function alone. She is the perpetually violated passive principle; her autonomy...

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.

[Y]ou are not ashamed of your sin [in committing adultery] because so many men commit it. Man’s wickedness is now such that men are more ashamed of chastity than of lechery. Murderers, thieves, perjurers, false...

Incidentally, I have also learned a bit about the importance of avoiding feminine embarrassment (‘Daddy,’ wrote Sophia when she enrolled at the New School where I teach, ‘people will ask “why is old Christopher Hitchens...