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I remember, around age ten, beholding the scene in The Shining in which the hot young woman whom Jack Nicholson is lewdly embracing in the haunted hotel bathroom ages rapidly in his arms, screeching from nubile chick to putrefying corpse within seconds. I understood that the scene was supposed to represent some kind of primal horror. This was The Shining, after all. But the image of that decaying, cackling crone, her arms outstretched in desire toward the man who is backing away, has stayed with me for three decades, as a type of friend. She’s part baths-ghost, part mad-Naomi. She didn’t get the memo about being beyond wanting or being wanted. Or perhaps she just means to scare the shit out of him, which she does.
— Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts
Why do I need to have reasons? When someone decides to have a baby, people don't go around asking what her reasons are.
— Emily Giffin, Baby Proof
You’re looking for sexual tidbits as a female child, and the only ones that present themselves depict child rape or other violations (all my favorite books in my preteen years: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Clan of the Cave Bear, The World According to Garp, as well as the few R-rated movies I was allowed to see—Fame, most notably, with its indelible scene of Irene Cara being asked to take her shirt off and suck her thumb by a skeezy photographer who promises to make her a star), then your sexuality will form around that fact. There is no control group. I don’t even want to talk about “female sexuality” until there is a control group. And there never will be.
— Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts
Women often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act. As they did in Egypt, where liberty leading the masses was an earnest young woman in a black hijab.
— Rebecca Solnit, The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness
I have become the woman I hardly dared imagine I could be. There are parts I don’t love—until a few years ago, I had no idea that you could have cellulite on your stomach—but not only do I get along with me most of the time now, I am militantly and maternally on my own side. Left to my own devices, would I trade this for firm thighs, fewer wrinkles, a better memory? You bet I would. That is why it’s such a blessing that I’m not left to my own devices.
— Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
When posing for a photograph, spinsters should avoid looking desperate or deprived. A serene smile will show that your circumstances are by choice and not for lack of beauty or character. -Miss Gertrude Hasslebrink, 1878
— Margaret Brownley, A Vision of Lucy
The Old Testament records the sage words of an old woman in addressing two younger ones: 'The Lord grant', said Naomi, 'that ye may find rest, each of you, in the house of her husband!' Who ever heard of a woman finding rest in the house of her husband? And yet, and yet ! The restless hearts are not the hearts of wives and of mothers, as many a lonely woman knows. There is no more crushing load than the load of a loveless life. It is a burden that is often beautifully and graciously borne, but its weight is a very real one. The mother may have a bent form, a furrowed brow, and worn, thin hands ; but her heart found its rest for all that. Naomi was an old woman; she knew the world very well, and her words are worth weighing. Heavy luggage is Christ's strange cure for weary hearts.
— F.W. Boreham, The Luggage of Life
Miss Betsy is looking at me. Some jealousy sure, but every woman have that in them
— Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings
There is nothing that anyone can get past a forty-five-year-old woman.” We laugh hard, the first honest sound I make that afternoon, or in many days, each of us feeling the ravages of experience, our debt to enduring. We are not to be fucked with. We rule. Even as we age and help our children push past us, as we worry about the estimate for the roof, forget things we meant to do, regard our widening bodies, we rule. We’ve returned again and again to our original selves for another look; we have refined our purpose. Changes we thought we’d been resisting have anyway been wrought, and they have made us unbreakable.
— Susanna Sonnenberg, She Matters: A Life in Friendships
We need an army of white-haired, wild-eyed radicals cutting a swath against the sexism that crosses our paths. It is a good antidote to the larger community’s apparent belief that older women are slightly dotty, grandmotherly, benign souls.
— Shari Graydon, I Feel Great About My Hands: And Other Unexpected Joys of Aging
Headstrong is just a word, Katie - a word others call you when you don't do what they want.
— Jennifer Donnelly, These Shallow Graves
Getting married is easy, having sex is easier, but findings someone who can stimulate your mind and make love to your soul, that is rare.
— Habeeb Akande
Wolves and women wed for life.
— George R.R. Martin
I am a puzzle and a conundrum and a thunderstorm.
— Brian  Doyle, Martin Marten
All men are fools, and all men are knights where women are concerned.
— George R.R. Martin, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?
— Pam Brown
She has this curious heavy grace, like something out of its element making do in a heavier medium. Like she should be living in water.
— Keri Hulme
Ministry is when the people who hear you, don't want more of you; they want more of Him because of what you've said. When you point them to God's fire instead of trying to get attention for yourself-that's ministry.
— Priscilla Shirer
A rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose. All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that's like women too.
— Miranda Kerr
Try being an indie author, a minority author, a woman, and a person with health issues in the world of traditional - that's where you are clearly 'different' and marginalized. I am all of that, yet I am still here and smiling. Life is good!
— Kailin Gow
She ignored my observation. This generally happens with me. Show me a woman, I sometimes say, and I will show you someone who is going to ignore my observations.
— P.G. Wodehouse
I was amazed at how strong women were when they were angry.
— Robin Hobb, Royal Assassin
Women and cats do what they do
—  there is nothing a man can do about it
the girl with a moustache" they called me every now and then"It's about time you wax your arms" those who "cared" saidI faced the fears of the dreaded thread on my faceTo succumb every other week to the world's ways
— Sanhita Baruah
Ever wanted more. After all, women weren’t equal to men. They were better. Certainly not in strength or their skill in killing things, but when it came to propagation women absolutely trounced men. Men could bring some chips to the party, but that shindig was always going down in the belly of a woman. And considering that the hardest part of gathering food now was finding a parking spot, strength and killing things were significantly less high on the list of key survival traits.
— Matt K. Turner, GENESIS
Morning is sweet and always like a beautiful women, evening always shines like a man.
— Biju Karakkonam Nature and Wild life Photographer
But a lady forced is never a lady won
— Gregory Benford, Foundation's Fear
No woman should build her life waiting for a man to come along and save her. It's a tragic waste of brains and talent.
— Stephanie Grace Whitson, Sarah's Patchwork
Stop making someone else's looks your "#goals". By all means aspire to be a better version of your current self, but don't glorify others when you yourself are glorious.
— Miya Yamanouchi, Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
i am watersoft enoughto offer lifetough enoughto drown it away
— Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
You don’t need princes to save you. I don’t have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men.
— Neil Gaiman, The Sleeper and the Spindle
There’s something painfully beautiful about a woman who loves without condition. Heart filled with cracks from mistrust and disappointment and yet she loves as if her heart knows nothing of betrayal. For the strength and faith she holds, in spite reasons not to hold, she deserves love. But fu** it, she finds love within herself.
— Ahimsa Murfi
For you know that any evil spoken of women so generally only hurts those who say it, not women themselves.
— Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies
Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens. Alone she goes to the gates of death to give life to every man that is born into the world. No one can share her fears, no one can mitigate her pangs; and if her sorrow is greater than she can bear, alone she passes beyond the gates into the vast unknown.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Solitude of Self
I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and prejudice, should demand the denial of life and joy. I insisted that our Cause could not expect me to become a nun and that the movement would not be turned into a cloister. If it meant that, I did not want it. "I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things." Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live it in spite of the whole world — prisons, persecution, everything. Yes, even in spite of the condemnation of my own closest comrades I would live my beautiful ideal.
— Emma Goldman
Dear men, I’ll make it clear to you. Those who tell you that ‘true love’ is never giving up someone you are in love with are insecure and competitive. Their description on love is based on their needs. Selfish needs. While women who are confident, their spirits fulfilled by themselves know that a 'good bye’ doesn’t mean they never loved you. They realizes that letting you go is what God needs them to do, because both happiness: yours and your lover require taking different journey for spiritual growth. These kind of women show you what 'real love’ is. And you don’t want to catch them still? Win a battle for them? Even after what you have learnt? For God’s sake, these women have endured much. For battles she fight alone, they deserve LOVE.
— Ahimsa Murfi
... motherhood is a game you must enter with as much energy, willingness, and happiness as possible.
— Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman
Barnby always dismissed the idea of intelligence in a woman as no more than a characteristic to be endured.
— Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time: 2nd Movement
Daydreams of wealth or women must have given Carolo that faraway look which never left him; sad and silent, he contemplated huge bank balances and voluptuous revels.
— Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time: 2nd Movement
There is something magical and transformational about saying “yes” to God. When you take His hand, step out of that boat (your ordinary, comfortable life), and be brave. Instead of spending your lifetime living in fear and playing it safe, you boldly walk in obedience. God makes you brave.
— Dana Arcuri, Reinventing You: Simple Steps to Transform Your Body, Mind, & Spirit
Only beards can't make you count as a man, you need to have respect for women in your heart for that.
— Moosa Rahat
Old or young, light or dark, full or frail, every woman has qualities that make her beautiful.
— Brownell Landrum, A Chorus of Voices: DUET stories Volume III - Adult Version
I rather miss my wild girl; but if I get a strong, helpful, tender-hearted woman in her place, I shall feel quite satisfied.
— Louisa May Alcott
It makes you love vividly, work intensely, and realize that, in the scheme of things, you really don't have time to sit on the sofa in your undies watching Homes Under the Hammer.
— Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman
The aphorism "If you want something done, ask a busy woman" is in direct acknowledgment of the efficiency boot camp parenthood puts you through.
— Caitlin Moran
Strong women are the universe’s way of enhancing the strength of men.
— Brownell Landrum, A Chorus of Voices: DUET stories Volume III - Adult Version
And it's time people told the truth about beautiful women. They do not shimmer down staircases. They do not descend, as was once supposed, from on high, attached to nothing other than wings.
— Zadie Smith
We ask no sympathy from others in the anxiety and agony of a  broken friendship or shattered love. When death sunders our nearest  ties, alone we sit in the shadow of our affliction. Alike mid the greatest  triumphs and darkest tragedies of life we walk alone. On the divine  heights of human attainments, eulogized and worshiped as a hero or  saint, we stand alone. In ignorance, poverty, and vice, as a pauper or criminal, alone we starve or steal; alone we suffer the sneers and rebuffs of our fellows; alone we are hunted and hounded through dark courts and alleys, in by-ways and highways; alone we stand in the judgment seat; alone in the prison cell we lament our crimes and misfortunes; alone we expiate them on the gallows. In hours like these we realize the awful solitude of individual life, its pains, its penalties, its responsibilities; hours in which the youngest and most helpless are thrown on their own resources for guidance and consolation. Seeing then that life must ever be a march and a battle, that each soldier must be equipped for his own protection, it is the height of cruelty to rob the individual of a single natural right.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Solitude of Self
My name is Nathan, just twenty-three and given to the curation of stories. I listen, retain, then polish and release them over the fire at night, when the others hush and lean forward in their desire to hear of the past. They crave romance, particularly when autumn sets in and cold nights await them, and so I speak of Alice, and Bethany, and Sarah, and Val, and other dead women who all once had lustrous hair and never a bad word on their plump lips. I can remember this is not how they were; I knew them, I knew them! Only six years have passed and yet I mythologize them as if it is six thousand. I am not culpable. Language is changing, like the earth, like the sea. We live in lonely, fateful flux, outnumbered and outgrown.
— Aliya Whiteley, The Beauty
The passion of the collector when confronted with a rare item, the enthusiasm of a hunter who sees a fine, handsome beast, can give us no idea of the tremendous love of clothes in some women.
— Benito Pérez Galdós
How the little courtesies of life on the surface of society, deemed so important from man towards woman, fade into utter insignificance in view of the deeper tragedies in which she must play her part alone, where no human aid is possible.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Solitude of Self
We are beautiful, but we are not weak, that old Geisha told her. Men should see us like supernatural beings. Everything is so open now. Women shave their legs in front of men, they eat with their mouth full, they drink side by side with them, they get drunk, they loose the whole essence of femininity. Being a work of art is painful, but nobody said it would be easy. To create and recreate yourself every single moment of your life, that takes commitment, passion, energy and faith.
— Eva Scoutt, The Intern
We ask no sympathy from others in the anxiety and agony of a  broken friendship or shattered love. When death sunders our nearest  ties, alone we sit in the shadow of our affliction. Alike mid the greatest  triumphs and darkest tragedies of life we walk alone. On the divine  heights of human attainments, eulogized and worshiped as a hero or  saint, we stand alone. In ignorance, poverty, and vice, as a pauper or  criminal, alone we starve or steal; alone we suffer the sneers and rebuffs of our fellows; alone we are hunted and hounded through dark courts and alleys, in by-ways and highways; alone we stand in the judgment  seat; alone in the prison cell we lament our crimes and misfortunes; alone we expiate them on the gallows. In hours like these we realize the  awful solitude of individual life, its pains, its penalties, its responsibilities; hours in which the youngest and most helpless are thrown on their own resources for guidance and consolation. Seeing then that life must ever be a march and a battle, that each soldier must be equipped for his own protection, it is the height of cruelty to rob the individual of a single natural right.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, The Woman's Bible
If we push hard now, this next wave can be the last wave. In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders
— Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Show me a woman without guilt and I'll show you a man
— Sheryl Sandberg
Self-care is not selfish. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.
— Eleanor Brownn
To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.
— Maya Angelou
I hear you in the morning sun.
— A.D. Posey
I think all women should be able to make it on their own,” Frankie said. “It’s not about needing a manor not — it just means she knows she can do whatever she sets out to do.
— Lindsay  Smith, A Tyranny of Petticoats
It is obvious to you that the struggle will be an unequal one, but I shall make it - I shall make it as long as I have an ounce of strength left in me, or any life left in me.
— Emmeline Pankhurst, My Own Story
Ladies, you have a ton of power if you just understand the fundamental differences between men and women and unaffectedly play by the rules.
— Julieanne O'Connor, Spelling It Out for Your Man
Then the truth is this: a good man can only aspire to be worthy of a good woman. She'll always be out of his league in ways he'll never understand. But he'll appreciate what he doesn't understand—if he's smart.
— James          Anderson, The Never-Open Desert Diner
My feeling on the subject of sex with a man is - don't give it up unless you're willing to give him up. Not in the beginning. Sex is power!
— Julieanne O'Connor, Spelling It Out for Your Man
There will be a time when love is beautiful and passionate and nothing else will exist but you and the person you love, and a time when love hurts so badly that you will wish you wouldn't wake up. I say this. Always, always, always approach love with the heart of the angel you were born with.
— Julieanne O'Connor, Spelling It Out for Your Man
Marry for love. But also choose to marry a man or woman who you love that treats you with the ultimate respect for your expression of who you are at your very core.
— Julieanne O'Connor, Spelling It Out for Your Man
I remembered a definition of chivalry I'd heard once: a man protecting a woman against every man but himself.
— James Anderson
To love without ownership, to love with total trust and faith in that very love, to love with the same faith you have that your heart will keep beating moments from now, that is the ultimate love.
— Julieanne O'Connor, Spelling It Out for Your Man
Life is surreal. When you step back and really take a look at it, the irony is absolute.
— Julieanne O'Connor, Spelling It Out for Your Man
All bleed who fight with the sword. All confront, with greater or lesser difficulty, the worship of their own flesh. The swordmaiden faces particular obstacles in this matter: she will have seen, in the temples and elsewhere, many images of unscarred women.
— Sofia Samatar, The Winged Histories
If they're from the village, you take them to the inn. If they're from the city, you treat them with respect when they are beautiful and throw them on the highway when they are dead.
— Voltaire, Candide
Immoral women do not exist", said the organist. "That this only a superstition. On the other hand there exist women who sleep thirty times with one man, and women who sleep once with thirty men.
— Halldór Laxness, The Atom Station
We will all experience the judgment of others when we fall in love. Love with your whole being anyway.
— Julieanne O'Connor, Spelling It Out for Your Man
Style is a sacred fashion.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I like games of chance, including women.
— Raymond Chandler, Nevada-Gas
Fashion is an art.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Education was the new god, and educated men the new plantation masters.
— Charles Bukowski
Men love pleasure, but women wish for purposeful promise.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Men love pleasure.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
In all our discussions and speculations we had always unconsciously assumed that the women, whatever else they might be, would be young. Most men do think that way, I fancy. "Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private ownership mostly, or out of it altogether. But these good ladies were very much on the stage, and yet any one of them might have been a grandmother. We looked for nervousness—there was none. For terror, perhaps—there was none. For uneasiness, for curiosity, for excitement—and all we saw was what might have been a vigilance committee of women doctors, as cool as cucumbers, and evidently meaning to take us to task for being there.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
With boys there was a fundamental assumption that they had a right to be there — not always, but more often than not. With girls, 'Why her?' came up so quickly.
— Helen Oyeyemi, What is Not Yours is Not Yours
A Pheonomenal woman is driven by her divine given POWER: The acronym Power defines her qualities:Poised for successOpportunities are endlessWorks hard to achieve her goalsEnduring strength and vitalityReaps the rewards of her hard workA Phenomenal woman will get out of bed, when the whole world around her is falling apart.
— Delma Pryce, ABOVE AND BEYOND: My Spiritual Journey
Be the energy you want others to absorb.
— A.D. Posey
Greatness is achieved through kindness, compassion, and love.
— A.D. Posey
Women may show some discrimination about whom they sleep with, but they'll marry anybody.
— Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time: 2nd Movement
I am a woman with wings,' I once wrote and will revise these words again. 'I am a woman with wings dancing with other women with wings.' In a voiced community, we all flourish.
— Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
We need a temporary cessation in people having any opinions about any women, ever. I propose a, say, five-year moratorium on having opinions about women, in order to let one generation of girls get from one side of puberty to the other without growing up in a climate where women are constantly being scolded, chivvied, harassed, or subjected to thunderous opinion columns concluding that, yet again, some woman in the public eye has overreached herself and should wind her neck in.
— Caitlin Moran, Moranifesto
The courage to continue before the face of despair is the recognition in those eyes of darkness we find our own night vision. Women blessed with death-eyes are fearless.
— Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
A girl is not a predictable book but is a closed diary
— ashadnan
It's true,' Mathilde said after some time, 'I could breathe fire.'She thought of how Lotto, in later years, had been called the lion. With his dander up, he could roar. He looked leonine too, his carrona of white-shot gold, the fine, sharp cheekbones. He'd leap on stage, offended by some actor flubbing his precious lines, and there he'd pace, sleek and swift with his long lovely body, growling. He could be deadly, fierce, the name was not inapt, but please, Mathilde knew lions. The male lolled beautifully, lazy in the sun. The female, less lovely by miles, was the one who brought back the kill.
— Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies
Men always want to be a woman's first love, -women want to be a man's last romance.
— Oscar Wilde
His staff had shaken hands with her as though a woman was merely another kind of man. Fools! The seeds of Eve were in this radiant creature. The lullabyes of half a million years throbbed in her throat. Had they no sense of wonder, no reverence, no pride?
— Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast
If I could find someone who would love me to the extent I do, I would love her to the extent she could never love me.
— M.F. Moonzajer, The Journalist: Attack on the Central Intelligence Agency
Empowered Women 101: Real women don't tell the world or elude to it on Pinterest, Facebook or any other social media platform that they are in an awful relationship. It is disrespectful to the person you say you love. Plus, it is self abusive to yourself. Ask yourself these questions: What if everyone you knew read it? Would your significant other be upset or humiliated? Why are you posting it (pity, anxiety, fear, desperateness, inmaturity)? And why do you want people to know?
— Shannon L. Alder
A woman is a blissful mother, a wonderful sister, a gorgeous daughter, and a friend with a kind heart who really cares. Wishing you a wonderful International Women’s Day
— Debasish Mridha
The truest kindness to any woman is to provide her with an opportunity for self-expression in some constructive field: to work, not at home with cook-stove and scrubbing brush, but outside, independently, in the world of men and affairs.
— William Moulton Marston
A good friend is a healing friend.
— A.D. Posey
Anyway, there is an essential difference in gender that isn't politically correct to mention these days. Women are the ones to bear the children after all. They are the ones to nurse. They are the ones, traditionally, who care for the infants. That takes a huge amount of time.'He smiled, waiting for the applause, but something had gone wrong. There was a cold silence from the crowd...'Did you just say that women aren't creative geniuses because they have babies?''No," he said, 'No. Not because. I wouldn't say that. I love women, and not all women have babies. My wife, for one, at least not yet. But listen, we're all given a finite amount of creativity, just like we;re given a finite amount of life, and if a woman continues to spend hers creating actual life and not imaginary life, that's a glorious choice. When a woman has a baby, she's creating so much more than just a world on the page, she's creating life itself, not just a simulacrum. No matter what Shakespeare did, it's so much less than your average illiterate woman of his age who had babies. Those babies were our ancestors, necessary to make everyone here today, and no one could seriously argue that any play is worth a single human wife. I mean the history of the stage supports me here. If women have historically demonstrated less creative genius than men, it's because they're making their creations internal, spending the energies on life itself. It's a kind of bodily genius. You can't tell me that isn't at least as worthy as genius of imagination. I think we can all agree that women are just as good as men, better in many ways. But the reason for the disparity in creation, is because women have turned their creative energies inward not outward.
— Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies
When girls see women in leadership roles speaking out for what they believe in, they see it is possible for them, too. Instead of a faraway dream, their aspirations become real, concrete and achievable. Womanhood starts to look more inviting.
— Tabby Biddle, Find Your Voice: A Woman's Call to Action
When colleges, both within the Hudson Valley and throughout the country, encouraged women to do little beyond attaining their Mrs. degree in Husbandry, Annandale offered rigorous and prestigious degrees irrespective of gender.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys
Women forget all the past moments of the most intimate moments and the good sex when they have the next level of best sex with someone else. They just need someone to take out their hidden fantasies.
— Himmilicious
I am a feminist because in every woman I can see reflection of my mother.
— Debasish Mridha
The nature of living and loving is the act of reciprocity. As women, we are told that to be the guest is to receive. We are told that to be the host is to give. But what if it is the reverse? What if it is the guest who gives to the host and it is the host who receives from the guest each time she sets her table to welcome and feed those she loves? To be the guest and the host simultaneously is to imagine a mutual exchange of gifts predicated on respect and joy. If we could adopt this truth, perhaps we as women would be less likely to become martyrs.
— Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
Not every woman has a Boaz in her life. Sometimes the male voices we hear are cautioning us to hold back instead of urging us to serve God wholeheartedly with them. Sometimes the cautioning voices we hear belong to other women. Sometimes those who have the power to facilitate our callings and clear a path for us set up roadblocks instead. Ruth, Naomi, and Boaz remind us powerfully that even in a dark era like the days of the judges, God always has his people and the Blessed Alliance is still alive and well. He is working in our hearts, summoning us to be strong and courageous like Ruth - to embrace and embody his gospel on our 'bit of earth.
— Carolyn Custis James, The Gospel of Ruth: Loving God Enough to Break the Rules
Women do not admit to the past, they mourn for past even less. They grab from each moment anything they can reach.
— Jovan Dučić
Well we both know there're some men who wish it was not women who came to tell that Jesus was risen. hehehe
— Mary Tornyenyor
The only hope for civilization is the greater freedom, development and equality of women.
— William Moulton Marston
Like nature, women are the creative power behind all of creation.
— Debasish Mridha
Like a flower, feel yourself rise above and begin to open.
— A.D. Posey
Women instinctually know how to nourish each other, and just being with each other is restorative
— Tanja Taaljard
When we understand love as the will to nurture our own and another's spiritual growth, it becomes clear that we cannot claim to love if we are hurtful and abusive. Love and abusive cannot coexist. Abuse and neglect are, by definition, the opposites of nurturance and care.
— bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
The secret to being a rider in the hippodrome wasn't just that you must be agile, or that you must be good with horses, or that you must be strong and steady as the horse careens to the far end of the arena and back with you riding on its back. It was that you must hide inside your costume a little of a killer's heart.The animal will be tender with you, and you with it, but the animal never forgets that when what it wants for survival requires your death, it will become unafraid to kill you. And so you cannot forget this, either.It is, on reflection, good training to be a courtesan. A woman of any kind.
— Alexander Chee, The Queen of the Night
The best sex and the most satisfying sex are not the same. I have had great sex with men who were intimate terrorists, men who seduce and attract by giving you just what you feel your heart needs then gradually or abruptly withholding it once they have gained your trust. And I have been deeply sexually fulfilled in bonds with loving partners who have had less skill and know-how. Because of sexist socialization, women tend to put sexual satisfaction in its appropriate perspective. We acknowledge its value without allowing it to become the absolute measure of intimate connection. Enlightened women want fulfilling erotic encounters as much as men, but we ultimately prefer erotic satisfaction within a context where there is loving, intimate connection. If men were socialized to desire love as much as they are taught to desire sex, we would see a cultural revolution. As it stands, most men tend to be more concerned about sexual performance and sexual satisfaction than whether they are capable of giving and receiving love.
— bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
Women not only bear the brunt of the equation of beauty with youth, we perpetuate it—every time we dye our hair to cover the gray or lie about our age, not to mention have plastic surgery to cover the signs of aging.
— Ashton Applewhite, This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism
It’s because our friendships – female friendships are just a hop to our sisterhood, and sisterhood can be a very powerful force, to give the world … the things that humans desperately need
— Tanja Taaljard
Life is beauty simply breathing.
— A.D. Posey
Peace is when we look upon the world together.
— A.D. Posey
If you think you can kiss her, you probably could have ten minutes ago.
— Mark  Manson
Bless all the women of this world who nurture our heritage while too many man rush off to kill for ideals that might now be deeply and personally held, but will often be viewed as repugnant by later generations.
— Stephen Jay Gould, I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History
They were the sort who berated a man for meddling and chased him away, then berated him again for not being there when he was needed. Not that they would admit he was needed, even then, not them. Raise a hand to help and you were interfering, do nothing and you were an un-trustworthy wastrel.
— Robert Jordan
Archie! Trying to figure out a woman is just like punching yourself in the head -- It feels good when you stop!! (Jughead Jones)
— Vic Bloom, Archie's Girls Betty & Veronica
Whatever you do, let it be lovely.
— A.D. Posey
Benazir Bhutto doesn't cease to exist the moment she gets married. I am not giving myself away. I belong to myself and I always shall.
— Benazir Bhutto
The men in my life have always been the folks who are wary of using the word 'love' lightly. They are wary because they believe women make too much of love. And they know that what we think love means is not always what they believe it means. Our confusion about what we mean when we use the word 'love' is the source of our difficulty in loving. If our society had a commonly held understanding of the meaning of love, the act of loving would not be so mystifying.
— bell hooks
Women at the top are the ones chosen to be there by men and not eliminated by women, a dual filter that excludes most witches: those with brilliance and originality and those capable of disturbing the status quo.
— Heather Marsh
He noticed that he felt calmer now she was here, still in that grey dress with her dowdy hat, the air around her redolent with orchid oil. Perhaps all women in England had this effect. Perhaps they all smelled of flowers and exuded a calm and measured purpose. He couldn’t remember.
— Sara Sheridan, On Starlit Seas
Isn't that the tragic thing about women? That we live on long after our passions have died?
— Olivia Olivia
She better be capable of achieving something of the greatness that a cure for cancer would give the world or as damned good of an assassin as he was. If she possessed none of that, she should at least be the kind of woman with both a personality and face that could make any man question his better judgment. There weren’t enough of those in the world, at least not in the world he knew.
— Drea Damara, Chasing Vengeance
You have to understand something about girls, Mick. You see 'em in the winner's circle, but you'll never find horseshit on their shoes.
— Miles Watson, Cage Life
Every woman is a mad ugly bad old witch somewhere in her heart.
— Philippa Gregory, The Lady of the Rivers
Love is written by the soul.
— A.D. Posey
My tongue thirsty for superiority, maybe even immortality, ruled me. I was ruled by my tongue. I was ruled by women. I was ruled by alcohol.
— Jerzy Pilch, The Mighty Angel
Under the Iranian code, the worth of a woman’s life equals half of a man’s, a point that often leads to grotesque legal judgments that effectively punish the victims. In this instance, the judge ruled that the ‘blood money’ for the two men was worth more than the life of the murdered nine-year-old girl, and he demanded that her family come up with thousands of dollars to finance their executions.
— Shirin Ebadi, Iran Awakening
Love is alive when there's music in your heart.
— A.D. Posey
Love is enough.
— A.D. Posey
Men know that most women want to have an emotional connection with someone before they sleep with them. Men know that a lot of women think it's romantic to be friends first, and then the friendship blossoms into a relationship. Men know that they have to jump through all these hoops first, before they can get laid. And that's really all romance and courtship is to a man: hoops he has to jump through to get laid.
— Oliver Markus, Why Men And Women Can't Be Friends
There’s still a little girl inside every grown woman who would love to be able to fall into the arms of her mother and cry her eyes out every now and then.
— Toni Sorenson
It was come as you are when visiting my blog, CiCI's Garden -otherwise what would be the point? Readers were welcomed to a virtual place where emotions were respected and affirmed, and encouragement was offered to those who longed to know that wounded hearts can heal - even if it takes a lifetime.
— EsthersChild, It Takes A Cat
In our time women can demonstrate prowess in a thousand ways. Long ago the great Princess Sun of Ping fought for her father, the August Sovereign. At her funeral, His Majesty called for the trumpets and drums to be sounded, an honor reserved for men. My dear, from this day you must dress her as a boy. Give her an education worthy of her own determination.
— Shan Sa, Empress
Mother Teresa didn't walk around complaining about her thighs -- she had shit to do.
— Sarah Silverman
I just meant maybe you could set here and drink one of em with me.He squinted at her. You ever notice how women have trouble takin no for a answer? I think itstarts about age three.What about men?They get used to it. They better.
— Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
He'd been told that women were sensitive about such things, as if a scar could somehow ruin their beauty, but scars were just stories told in flesh...
— Larry Correia
Every woman has beauty. Every woman has worth. Every woman deserves a chance at happiness.
— Toni Sorenson
I think every woman in our culture is a feminist. They may refuse to articulate it, but if you were to take any woman back forty years and say, 'Is this a world you want to live in?' they would say, 'No.
— Helen Mirren
If you could see into a woman’s heart you’d be shocked at the cracks and chasms of self-doubt, fear, and pain it holds. It’s a wreck and yet it manages to love like it’s never been broken.
— Toni Sorenson
Every woman is born with her own sense of style and idea of beauty. To stifle that is a sin as great as snuffing out a blossoming bud, a one-of-a-kind flower will never bloom again.
— Toni Sorenson
Women who don’t like the rules change the rules.
— Toni Sorenson, The Great Brain Cleanse
The origin of the word gender means to bring forth and to sort or class. Somewhere along the way it was decided that a baby girl was second-class to a baby boy. That’s just not true or right. By Divine design one gender cannot exist without the other. We are partners in life. When can we start acting like we can’t live without each other…because we can’t?
— Toni Sorenson
To create a just world for women, we must firstly teach men to be just!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
There is a noticeable symphony being played around the world today. That symphony speaks of the independent, unorthodox, proud women. Yes, it is the International Women's Day! It is the day to celebrate the women in your life.In my life I have never believed in a particular day to celebrate women though, but a date is necessary rather customary to remind you of their contributions in your life lest you forget it.So here's wishing all those strong women who competed in a man's world, defeating them and breaking the taboos to earn the place which was rightfully theirs from the start but usurped in the past by manly morals and ego, a very- HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY!
— Adhish Mazumder
Women willing to think big and bold and brazen are the women who have shattered one glass ceiling after another to make shimmering stars for the rest of us to see our way by.
— Toni Sorenson, The Great Brain Cleanse
A strong woman strengthens women. An empowered woman empowers women. When one woman rises we are all elevated.
— Toni Sorenson
There is nothing wrong with being on the bottom once in awhile, but don’t stay there, women! New positions will give you new perspective, and new perspective will give you new experiences, and new experiences will give you a meaningful life.
— Toni Sorenson, The Great Brain Cleanse
What is a strong woman? One whose very embrace can weaken the knees and soften the heart of the one she embraces, not by force, but by love which is the strongest force of all.
— Toni Sorenson
Women rise up! Speak up. Look up. Within you is all the light the world needs to scare away the darkness that holds it hostage.
— Toni Sorenson
A wise woman invests her time and doesn’t squander it in gossip, judgment or idleness. She knows every moment gone is one that she will not get back.
— Toni Sorenson
There is atleast one day for women but what about men's day?
— M.Rehan Behleem
It is the common wonder of all men, how, among so many million faces, there should be none alike.
— Thomas Browne, Religio Medici; And Other Writings
A woman sees a problem and sets about solving it, not analyzing it.
— Toni Sorenson, The Great Brain Cleanse
Intuition is a woman’s gift that comes packaged in responsibility. If we don’t change the world for good, who will?
— Toni Sorenson
A woman’s belly is the garden of life. Her mind is the gateway to meaning. Her heart is the source of love. And her eyes are the light by which the whole world sees beauty.
— Toni Sorenson
Women can do it all but that doesn’t mean they should have to.
— Toni Sorenson
Many women think that if they put out too quickly, their partner won't respect them. This is not the case. It's not about waiting for a certain quantity of time before having sex, it's about waiting for a certain quality of connection.
— Neil Strauss, The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships
Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon me, where I loved some invaluable piece of myself apart from me-so different that I had to stretch and grow in order to recognize her. And in that growing, we came to separation, that place where work begins.
— Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
To join the company of women, to be adults, we go through a period of proudly boasting of having survived our own mother's indifference, anger, overpowering love, the burden of her pain, her tendency to drink or teetotal, her warmth or coldness, praise or criticism, sexual confusions or embarrassing clarity. It isn't enough that she sweat, labored, bore her daughters howling or under total anesthesia or both. No. She must be responsible for our psychic weaknesses the rest of her life. It is alright to feel kinship with your father, to forgive. We all know that. But your mother is held to a standard so exacting that it has no principles. She simply must be to blame.
— Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum
The women you've slept with, the ones you never did but primed for a future encounter, the ones who seemed interested but then suddenly stopped texting: Unless you do something horribly wrong, they never completely disappear. A lonely night, a cheating boyfriend, a sudden breakup, an attack of low self-esteem, an attack of high self-esteem—anything can, out of the blue, send them scrolling through their address book looking for validation, for security, for conversation, for adoration, for the fantasy of you filling some empty space in her life.
— Neil Strauss, The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships
Let us go where skins are rainbowsEnhanced by every hue.Where genders are cloudsWeightless and formless through.Let us go where creeds are starsIlluminating our view.Where men and women are oneAnd the in-between are true.Let us go where I am free to loveFor I cannot unlove you.
— Kamand Kojouri
There are women who only look at another woman's shoes and never at her face.And others who always look women in the face and only occasionally at their shoes.
— Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop
Khatun (queen) is one of the most authoritative and magnificent words in the Mongolian language. It conveys regality, stateliness, and great strength. If something resists breaking no matter how much pressure is applied, it is described as khatun. The word can form part of a boy’s or girl’s names, signifying power and firmness combined with beauty and grace. Because of the admitted qualities of khatun, men have often borne names such as Khatun Temur, literally ‘Queen Iron’, and Khatun Baatar, 'Queen Hero’.
— Jack Weatherford
When guys try to get a good job and make a lot of money, it's so that they can find a good mate, because they know women like guys with money. Big tits are to men, what big wallets are to women. A sexy woman can have almost any man she wants. And a rich guy can have almost any woman he wants.
— Oliver Markus, Why Men And Women Can't Be Friends
We want to look desirable. We want others to want to mate with us. No different than a colorful peacock. When girls dress up for their night out at the club, they are doing what all animals do when they try to make themselves desirable for a potential mate. That's the whole point behind the fashion, perfume, cosmetics, diet, and plastic surgery industries.
— Oliver Markus, Why Men And Women Can't Be Friends
Husbands are always angry, that's their nature.And the nature of us women,is not to pay a blind bit of notice.
— M.C. Beaton, Death of a Scriptwriter
Jane, will you marry me?""Yes sir.""A poor blind man, whom you will have to lead about by the hand?""Yes, sir.""A crippled man, twenty years older older than you, whom you will have to wait on?""Yes, sir.""Truly, Jane?""Most truly, sir.
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
He did not want them themselves really. They were too complicated. There was something else. Vaguely he wanted a girl but he did not want to have to work to get her. He would have liked to have a girl but he did not want to have to spend a long time getting her. He did not want to get into the intrigue and the politics. He did not want to have to do any courting. He did not want to tell any more lies. It wasn't worth it.
— Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
The objective of stereotypes is not to reflect or represent a reality but to function as a disguise, or mystification, of objective social relations.
— Hazel V. Carby, Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist
#ToTheGirls2016 Value yourself, your voice, your body, your opinions, your dreams, your pride, your ego. You have a RIGHT to take up space.
— Abigail Tarttelin
There are only 24 hours in a day. The average man has to sleep about 8 hours. And work for 8 hours. That leaves 8 hours to run some errands, drive to and from work, eat, and have some spare time. And in that little bit of spare time, a man has to figure out how to get the one thing he likes more than anything else: sex.So when a man has to choose whether or not he will hang out with a female and spend any time, money or attention on her, the question of whether the resources he spent will result in sex plays a very big factor. If your male "friend" chooses to spend his time and money on you, it's because he thinks there is a chance it might pay off in sex at some point. If he hangs out with you instead of with some other female, it's because he thinks you are his best bet to getting sex.The more likely there will be sex, the more willing he is to spend his little bit of free time with you. If he thinks his chances of having sex are higher with a different female, he will spent more time, money and attention on her. That's just common sense, and using his limited resources wisely.
— Oliver Markus, Why Men And Women Can't Be Friends
Some people will say, “Oh, but women have the real power, bottom power.” And for non-Nigerians, “bottom power” is an expression in which I suppose means something like a woman who uses her sexuality to get favors from men. But “bottom power” is not power at all. Bottom power means that a woman simply has a good root to tap into, from time to time, somebody else’s power. And then of course we have to wonder when that somebody else is in a bad mood, or sick, or impotent.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Men's freedom is their unfaithfulness: the Son of Heaven or the son of a peasant, they could both reduce me to the mediocre torments of a woman.
— Shan Sa, Empress