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As I learned about the consequences of my food choices and as I recognized that I didn't have to eat animals, and that eating animals caused the animals to suffer, it caused an enormous footprint on our planet, and it wasn't healthy, it made since to go vegan. And, it's one of the best decisions I've ever made, and I think most people who've decided to go vegan share a similar experience. It's very empowering. And, when I went vegan I actually started eating a wide variety of foods I had never tried before. Different ethnic foods. You also start combining things in different ways, you start becoming more creative in the kitchen. But I went vegan just because it seemed to make sense, and it was aligned with my own values, because I didn't want to support this system that was so abusive to animals, and wasting and squandering so many scarce resources on our planet. And it was also healthier, so it was in my interest to eat food that was plant-based instead of animal-based. Living a vegan lifestyle makes a lot of sense.
— Gene Baur
To insure good health: Eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.
— William Londen
The desires for both a good experience and a healthy baby are very much connected, and there is nothing wrong with wanting both!
— Jennetta Billhimer, Wise Childbearing: What You'll Want to Know as You Make Your Birth Choices
Human milk is like ice cream, penicillin, and the drug ecstasy all wrapped up in two pretty packages.
— Florence   Williams
Somehow, we have gotten off track from the basics of health and spirituality, and we get in our own way.
— Alice McCall, Wellness Wisdom - Inspired by One Woman's Journey with Breast Cancer
More than three fourths of all Americans are vitamin D-deficient.
— John Cannell, Athlete's Edge: Faster, Quicker, Stronger with Vitamin D
What is it about our human nature that we feel the need to defend the choices we’ve made when it comes to our medical treatment?
— Suzanne Somers, Ageless: The Naked Truth About Bioidentical Hormones
I thought... I thought you might..." "Help you? By my grove, I am helping you. You're not starving anymore, are you? <…> You had a dry night's sleep, too, and you're no longer coughing your liver and lights out. Some might count those as mighty gifts indeed.
— Tad Williams, Shadowplay
It's YOUR health. Don't leave up to someone else.
— Lisa Barger
Your clothes should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to show you're a lady
— Marilyn Monroe
It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
I'm a woman. I have a right to change my mind.
— Sidney Sheldon, Master of the Game
She will not be simple and sweet.She will not be what people tell her she should be.
— E. Lockhart, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
Don’t fall in love with a woman who reads, a woman who feels too much, a woman who writes...Don’t fall in love with an educated, magical, delusional, crazy woman. Don’t fall in love with a woman who thinks, who knows what she knows and also knows how to fly; a woman sure of herself.Don’t fall in love with a woman who laughs or cries making love, knows how to turn her spirit into flesh; let alone one that loves poetry (these are the most dangerous), or spends half an hour contemplating a painting and isn't able to live without music.Don’t fall in love with a woman who is interested in politics and is rebellious and feel a huge horror from injustice. One who does not like to watch television at all. Or a woman who is beautiful no matter the features of her face or her body.Don’t fall in love with a woman who is intense, entertaining, lucid and irreverent. Don’t wish to fall in love with a woman like that. Because when you fall in love with a woman like that, whether she stays with you or not, whether she loves you or not, from a woman like that, you never come back.
— Martha Rivera-Garrido
A woman being never at a loss... the devil always sticks by them.
— George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron: Selected Letters and Journals,
I WANT her though, to take the same from me.She touches me as if I were herself, her own.She has not realized yet, that fearful thing, thatI am the other,she thinks we are all of one piece.It is painfully untrue.I want her to touch me at last, ah, on the root andquick of my darknessand perish on me, as I have perished on her.Then, we shall be two and distinct, we shall haveeach our separate being.And that will be pure existence, real liberty.Till then, we are confused, a mixture, unresolved,unextricated one from the other.It is in pure, unutterable resolvedness, distinctionof being, that one is free,not in mixing, merging, not in similarity.When she has put her hand on my secret, darkestsources, the darkest outgoings,when it has struck home to her, like a death, "this is _him!_"she has no part in it, no part whatever,it is the terrible _other_,when she knows the fearful _other flesh_, ah, dark-ness unfathomable and fearful, contiguous and concrete,when she is slain against me, and lies in a heaplike one outside the house,when she passes away as I have passed awaybeing pressed up against the _other_,then I shall be glad, I shall not be confused with her,I shall be cleared, distinct, single as if burnished in silver,having no adherence, no adhesion anywhere,one clear, burnished, isolated being, unique,and she also, pure, isolated, complete,two of us, unutterably distinguished, and in unutterable conjunction.Then we shall be free, freer than angels, ah, perfect.VIIIAFTER that, there will only remain that all mendetach themselves and become unique,that we are all detached, moving in freedom morethan the angels,conditioned only by our own pure single being,having no laws but the laws of our own being.Every human being will then be like a flower, untrammelled.Every movement will be direct.Only to be will be such delight, we cover our faceswhen we think of itlest our faces betray us to some untimely fiend.Every man himself, and therefore, a surpassingsingleness of mankind.The blazing tiger will spring upon the deer, un-dimmed,the hen will nestle over her chickens,we shall love, we shall hate,but it will be like music, sheer utterance,issuing straight out of the unknown,the lightning and the rainbow appearing in usunbidden, unchecked,like ambassadors.We shall not look before and after.We shall _be_, _now_.We shall know in full.We, the mystic NOW.(From the poem the Manifesto)
— D.H. Lawrence
Her antiquity in preceding and surviving succeeding tellurian generations: her nocturnal predominance: her satellitic dependence: her luminary reflection: her constancy under all her phases, rising and setting by her appointed times, waxing and waning: the forced invariability of her aspect: her indeterminate response to inaffirmative interrogation: her potency over effluent and refluent waters: her power to enamour, to mortify, to invest with beauty, to render insane, to incite to and aid delinquency: the tranquil inscrutability of her visage: the terribility of her isolated dominant resplendent propinquity: her omens of tempest and of calm: the stimulation of her light, her motion and her presence: the admonition of her craters, her arid seas, her silence: her splendour, when visible: her attraction, when invisible.
— James Joyce, Ulysses
Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's sizeBut when I start to tell them,They think I'm telling lies.I say,It's in the reach of my armsThe span of my hips,The stride of my step,The curl of my lips.I'm a womanPhenomenally.Phenomenal woman,That's me.I walk into a roomJust as cool as you please,And to a man,The fellows stand orFall down on their knees.Then they swarm around me,A hive of honey bees.I say,It's the fire in my eyes,And the flash of my teeth,The swing in my waist,And the joy in my feet.I'm a womanPhenomenally.Phenomenal woman,That's me.Men themselves have wonderedWhat they see in me.They try so muchBut they can't touchMy inner mystery.When I try to show themThey say they still can't see.I say,It's in the arch of my back,The sun of my smile,The ride of my breasts,The grace of my style.I'm a womanPhenomenally.Phenomenal woman,That's me.Now you understandJust why my head's not bowed.I don't shout or jump aboutOr have to talk real loud.When you see me passingIt ought to make you proud.I say,It's in the click of my heels,The bend of my hair,the palm of my hand,The need of my care,'Cause I'm a womanPhenomenally.Phenomenal woman,That's me.
— Maya Angelou, Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women
A queen is wise. She has earned her serenity, not having had it bestowed on her but having passer her tests. She has suffered and grown more beautiful because of it. She has proved she can hold her kingdom together. She has become its vision. She cares deeply about something bigger than herself. She rules with authentic power.
— Marianne Williamson
There are those who seek the love of a woman to forget her, to not think about her.
— Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph and Other Stories
We can't look to the world to restore our worth; we're here to restore our worth to the world. The world outside us can reflect our glory, but it cannot create it. It cannot crown us. Only God can crown us, and he already has.
— Marianne Williamson
Who can find a virtuous woman?For her price is far above rubies.
— Anonymous, Holy Bible: King James Version
If a man we don't know phones us up one day and talks a little, makes no suggestions, says nothing special, but nevertheless pays us the kind of attention we rarely receive, we're quite capable of going to bed with him that night, feeling relatively in love. That's what we women are like, and there's nothing wrong with that - it's the nature of the female to open herself to love easily.
— Paulo Coelho
A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.
— Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
As it so happens, I like your mouth.""It doesn't -- ""Challenge me?" He set the bottle down and moved to the end of the bed. "An outspoken woman makes the world a livable place. You have fire in you, and I would never put that out.
— Dannika Dark, Twist
She stuck a bookmark in his heart and walked away.
— Saul Williams, She
Is there any creature on earth as unfortunate as an ugly woman? (wonders Lady Catelyn Stark)
— George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
I took the life of the woman I was supposed to call mother in the process of being born... in order to become the world's strongest shinobi... an incarnation of sand was implanted inside of me...
— Masashi Kishimoto
A womans mistakes are different from a girls
— Janet Fitch, White Oleander
There is much that is immortal in this medieval lady. The dragons have gone, and so have the knights, but still she lingers in our midst. She reigned in many an early Victorian castle, and was Queen of much early Victorian song. It is sweet to protect her in the intervals of business, sweet to pay her honour when she has cooked our dinner well. But alas! the creature grows degenerate. In her heart also there are springing up strange desires. She too is enamoured of heavy winds, and vast panoramas, and green expanses of the sea. She has marked the kingdom of this world, how full it is of wealth, and beauty, and war--a radiant crust, built around the central fires, spinning towards the receding heavens. Men, declaring that she inspires them to it, move joyfully over the surface, having the most delightful meetings with other men, happy, not because they are masculine, but because they are alive. Before the show breaks up she would like to drop the august title of the Eternal Woman, and go there as her transitory self.
— E.M. Forster, A Room with a View
People are going to think I'm morbid, loving all these sad books. I actually don't mind a happy ending in a novel—certainly, it's nice when it happens. But when you've invested so much time and your fingers have pushed through all that paper and you get to the end…well, a tragic ending kind of goes with the tragedy of finishing a book.
— Julia L. Roberts
Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity.
— Alice Hoffman, The Dovekeepers
The true genius of a Woman is her subtle flair in creating the illusion that you are the smart one
— Josh Stern, And That’s Why I’m Single
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ..... a set of screwdrivers, a cordless drill, and a black lace bra... 
— Pamela Redmond Satran
They courted the face on the screen, the face of translucence, the face of wax on which men found it possible to imprint the image of their fantasy.
— Anaïs Nin
Depend on no one else to give you what you want
— Destiny's Child
She is a wild, tangled forest with temples and treasures concealed within.
— John Mark Green
A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.
— Diane Mariechild
Let me first state forthright that contrary to what we've often read in books and heard from preachers, when you are a woman, you don't feel like the Devil. 
— Orhan Pamuk, My Name is Red
Selfishly, perhaps, Catti-brie had determined that the assassin was her own business. He had unnerved her, had stripped away years of training and discipline and reduced her to the quivering semblance of a frightened child. But she was a young woman now, no more a girl. She had to personally respond to that emotional humiliation, or the scars from it would haunt her to her grave, forever paralyzing her along her path to discover her true potential in life.
— R.A. Salvatore, Streams of Silver
101 Reasons why its great to be a woman:We have an excuse to justify an inordinate indulgence in bitchiness: It's clearly feminine intuition.
— Summersdale Publishers
In Sanskrit, there exists no word for ‘The Individual’ (L’Individu). En Grèce antique, il n’y avait aucun mot pour dire ‘Devoir’ (Duty). In French, the word for ‘Wife’ is the same as the word for ‘Woman.’ En anglais, nous n’avons aucun mot semblable à l’exquise ‘Jouissance!
— Roman Payne
It took me ages to grow into being a woman, into being happy with it.
— Helena Bonham Carter
Thou hast had thty day, old dame, but thy sun has long been set. Thou art now the very emblem of an old warhorse turned out on the barren heath; thou hast had thy paces in thy time, but now a broken amble is the best of them.
— Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
I'm too much old-timer to be rude to a woman no matter what - they have so much of what we have none of.
— Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
I have sometimes thought--that under the affectation of independent views you are as enslaved to the social code as any woman I know!
— Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
For a man to think he can fulfil his destiny without a woman is a misunderstanding, a miscalculation; it is reckless and folly. Certainly a woman is not everthing, but everything depends on her.
— Yasmina Khadra, Ce que le jour doit à la nuit
...a woman not yet seen, but whose perfume accumulates on the horizon like a storm cloud.
— Fernand Dumont, région du cœur et autres textes
They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were growing up; she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions.
— Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
Every woman should have a purse of her own.
— Susan B. Anthony
Her vice takes hold of her again, but she still refrains until some moment when, gnawed by some hideous caprice, she comes aground like a mournful wreck ruined by lust, in the midst of her own banal, perfidious pollution.
— Jean Lorrain
But that woman is an encyclopedia!Of all vices, ancient and modern, and terribly interesting to leaf through!
— Jean Lorrain
I always knew the woman i wanted to be- I knew I wanted to be a woman who was independant
— Diane Von Furstenburg
A clever girl may pass through the phase of foolish miss on the way to sensible woman.
— Mary Lascelles, Jane Austen And Her Art
I see myself..in those pages as she goes back and forth, enjoying simply enjoying the beauties of the moments then chastising herself for having ‘no edge’ being simple and worse, harmless.
— Michael Cunningham
It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it.
— Walter Scott
When the young womanleans over the sky,about to water the flowers as well as the weeds,her white front splits openuntil her milk runs.
— Günter Grass
I ain’t the only old woman looking. I’m just the only one honest enough to admit it. The others just hire the boy to cut their grass so they can sit at the window and drool.
— Abbi Glines
When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free.
— Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry
you are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness.
— Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
A pleasurable woman could cause more harm than miserable one.
— Santosh Kalwar
Having a baby is part of a woman's life, and it is surely a great waste to be afraid of life.
— Joan Lowery Nixon, In The Face of Danger
I'm a woman. We mature faster than men, remember?
— Sharon Sala, Second Chances
No, she was just a woman. And that meant she could feel, she could need, she could give and she could receive.
— Laura Lee Guhrke, Scandal of the Year
She might have acted like she didn't know.But she knew,a woman always knows
— D. Lowery
Marrying a woman who was reckless must have been the ultimate reckless act, requiring a lifetime of balancing to keep both of them safe
— Ursula Hegi, Floating in My Mother's Palm
Henry was thinking of the younger Holland sister of the way she could go from being an impetuous girl to a knowing woman in a few seconds and never lose the stars in her eyes.
— Anna Godbersen, Envy
Next I prayed to Allah, whose ears are deaf; then did I beseech his fallen twin, the Devil Hornprick, who sits upon his thorn of fire, gloating upon his constellations and counting his bloody seeds. In Baclava it is said Hornprick once caught a glimpse of the First Woman, as she sat singing to her snake in her chamber of sacred mud. Dazzled by her sight, the light of love and lust, he fell. He is still falling. For all eternity her breasts orbit his dreams.
— Rikki Ducornet, Contemporary Surrealist Prose
Elise Vasquez and I stand shoulder to shoulder, watching the woman we both feel we lost, and may be never really had.
— Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts
What is a woman's greatest virtue?Patience.
— India Edghill, Wisdom's Daughter: A Novel of Solomon and Sheba
Woman won't accept to be your second option, either you choose her or you lose her.
— Eyden I., Kiss Friendzone Goodbye
It’s really very difficult to understand a woman – actually it’s not she but he who is confused
— Amit Abraham
The Girl was gone, buried in the past. She never wanted to hear that name again. She was a woman for better for worse. Whatever the future might bring she could face it as a woman, Ned Ridley's woman.
— Catherine Cookson, The Girl
A strange girl, all phosphorous and cantharides, burning with every desire! And burning with every vice!
— Jean Lorrain
She gave me a pain in the ass, but she was very good looking.
— J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
But first of all he is a woodsman, and you aren't a woodsman unless you have such a feeling for topography that you can look at the earth and see what it would look like without any woods or covering on it. It's something like the gift all men wish for when they or young-- or old-- of being able to look through a woman's clothes and see her body, possibly even a little of her character.
— Norman Maclean, Young Men and Fire
Being a woman, I tried, I cared, I loved and blamed in return.
— Priyanka Bhowmick
I want to be a wise woman
— Lauren Hutton
Give a man a noble cause and he would fight to the death for what he believed in,but get the woman he loves to leave him and his once honourable principles would cease to be quite so important.
— Mike Gayle, My Legendary Girlfriend
I have a hundred reasons to dislike this gentleman,” Erica reminded herself aloud. “And a thousand reasons more not to go courting with any man.”Lavinia laughed at that. “Whenever has a woman’s heart listened to her head?
— Davis Bunn, The Solitary Envoy
There was a Being whom my spirit oftMet on its visioned wanderings far aloft.A seraph of Heaven, too gentle to be human,Veiling beneath that radiant form of woman....
— Percy Bysshe Shelley, Epipsychidion
I wanted to drown inside a woman in the feeling and drooling of the love I could give her. I wanted her pulse to crush me with its intensity. That's what I wanted. That's what I wanted myself to be.
— Markus Zusak, Getting the Girl
Let us crush these so-called biological clocks that give us nothing but fear, and encourage us to make stupid decisions. Let us crush these biological clocks that hurt us and rob us of the fabulous lives that Jesus died to give us. These clocks that not only hurt us, but hurt many generations after us.It is time. We need you.
— Osayi Emokpae Lasisi, Impossible Is Stupid
A full lifer doesn't commit to anyone until they've committed to her
— Deanna Kizis
But that’s the paradox of expectations
—  they are infamous for generally never being fulfilled
A moon shining a broken road oversea
—  a lone woman naked to her waist waits at the edge of moonlight
A shy smile, strong arms, clever fingers, and two sure swords. What more could any woman want?
— George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
Oh! what a silly Thing is Woman! How vain, how unreasonable!
— Jane Austen, Catharine and Other Writings
Why would that woman shoot me? We had dinner reservations later!
— Günter Vogler
All you need to build a house, Is blood and bricks and plaster.
— Harriet Jones
Eustacia Vye was the raw material of a divinity. On Olympus she would have done well with a little preparation. She had the passions and instincts which make a model goddess, that is, those which make not quite a model woman. Had it been possible for the earth and mankind to be entirely in her grasp for a while, she had handled the distaff, the spindle, and the shears at her own free will, few in the world would have noticed the change of government. There would have been the same inequality of lot, the same heaping up of favors here, of contumely there, the same generosity before justice, the same perpetual dilemmas, the same captious alteration of caresses and blows that we endure now.
— Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native
But not she. Her eternity is an article of her faith. Great wars and disasters can ebb and flow, races rise and fall, empires wither with suffering and death, but these are superficialities: she, woman, is perpetual, essential; she will go on for ever.
— John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos
For lunch, we drove into the hills and parked in the dappled shade of a big sycamore, its powdery white bark like a woman's body against the uncanny blue sky.
— Janet Fitch, White Oleander
A tip for increased sales or in situations of life or death: Try to always refer to the lady as Miss. or Ms. Using the term: Ma'am could piss her off. 
— Ginnetta Correli
That is why it could happen anywhere, given the right ingredients: particular people in government, competing with others- or with each other- over natural and wealth-creating resources.
— Clea Koff, The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo
The New or Future Eve is emptied of all inner life and turned into a shell. The bitter irony in this is that her perfection recalls nothing so much as a corpse.
— Asti Hustvedt, The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France
A woman may be looked upon as an object for sexual satisfaction but her multifarious roles and diversified approaches make her a complex being which man has not been able to understand.
— Amit Abraham, The Great Game
But this is till the same girl who once lived in the steppes, wild and indomitable. Even when she ceased to play in the falling snow, the snow continued to fall within her soul. She never sough lovers among the wealthy men and the crown princes who prostrated themselves before her; her heart, like her voice, remained faultless. The reputation, temperament and talent of the woman partook of exactly the same crystalline transparency and icy clarity. ("The Glass Of Blood")
— Jean Lorrain
A woman carries her inner life - lugs it around or holds it in fumes that both poison and bless her - while nourishing another's inner life, many others actually, while never revealing too much madness, or, possibly, never revealing where she stores it: her island of lost mind.
— Durga Chew-Bose, Too Much and Not the Mood
Womanhood is like flourishing a garden.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If a woman holds on to this gift of being old while she is young and young while she is old, she will always know what comes next If she has lost it, she can yet reclaim it with some purposeful psychic work.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Savage and unpredictable, a woman, like the sea, takes what she wants and spits the remains back into the boiling cauldron of humanity ...
— Virginia Alison
I used that black magical elixir as amulet against all bad things and thoughts for that day. On the other hand, it was a liquid talisman for everybody else, to save them from being strangled by me.
— Mladen Đorđević, Svetioničar - Vesnici oluje
I like being full of mystery and wonder, people always know im up to something but never know exactly what.
— Nikki Rowe
Within every woman exists a warrior. Really.
— Jessica Bennett, Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace
You'll never be able to silence the woman who was born to write.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's life, gay in the morning, restless all day, tired at sundown? Her heart simple and wilful as a bird's heart?
— James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Just because she doesn't talk about it, doesn't mean she isn't feeling it. She hurts, but she won't wear it on her sleeve. She will never let an illness, a diagnosis, or a prediction, define her. She doesn't want sympathy, because that type of attention is not her goal. She'd rather you see the woman who smiles in the face of adversity, than be the one who begs you to see her frown.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
She seemed a compound of the autumn leaves and the winter sunshine ...
— Virginia Woolf, Night and Day
They are soldiers. They depend upon routine, and anything out of the ordinary will give them pause. And they are men. They hate to be insulted, but they love to hear others mocked. And they are fools, because they cannot imagine that a woman alone in the woods would be a threat.
— Kiersten White, Now I Rise
She is a woman of muscle twisted around bone.
— Veronica Roth, Allegiant
A woman to a man is as a fragrance to a flower. When fragrance disappears, flower becomes valueless.
— Faraz Ahmed Memon
A dog is a man's best friend........and a cat is a woman's..
— Ankala Subbarao
Fortunately, no matter how many times she is pushed down, she bounds up again. No matter how many times she is forbidden, quelled, cut back, diluted, tortured, touted as unsafe, dangerous, mad, and other derogations, she emanates upward in women, so that even the most quiet, even the most restrained woman keeps a secret place for Wild Woman, Even the more repressed woman has a secret life, with secret thoughts and secret feelings which are lush and wild, that is, natural. Even the most captured woman guards the place of the wildish self, for she knows intuitively that someday there will be a loophole, an aperture, a chance, and she will hightail it to escape.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
To love a woman, the mate must also love her wildish nature.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
As long as, Woman presents herself weak, She is master of everything.
— Tarif Naaz
A quiet woman is a firearm with a silencer.
— Efrat Cybulkiewicz
I’m no dynamic career woman. I don’t network or do lunch – I work because I have to. My job does not define me, but I try to do it well.
— Tracy Engelbrecht, The Girl Who Couldn't Say No
I am a woman. Not a damp puzzle piece to toy with by your dirty hands. I am a woman. Nothing less, attempting to piece together her truth.
— Brandi Gomez, No War Is Anyone's War
I respond to many names.Sometimes I am different people.Sometimes I am the me that howls in the night.Sometimes I am the sickening silence.I wear moonlight in my hair and bare my teeth.
— Jessica Bates, Birth & What Came After: poems on motherhood
She wasn't much over five feet and a hundred pounds, and she looked a little scrawny around the neck and ankles. But that was all right. It was perfectly all right. The good Lord had known just where to put that flesh where it would really do some good.
— Jim Thompson, The Killer Inside Me
The stride of the peacock is in your walk. Words of wisdom are displayed in the way you talk. There is nothing more beautiful than your charm. You are definitely a woman that is above the norm.
— Carl Busby Sr, Poems from the Sand II
Myra wasn't simple or complicated. She was different. She was not perfect, not even close but her flaws were intresting. She always had an opinion, something to say about everything.Most interesting thing about her is that she never said something to please, yet she was nice to be around.
— Parul Wadhwa, The Masquerade
Nadia's experiences during her first months as a single woman living on her own did, in some moments, equal or even surpass the loathsomeness and dangerousness that her family had warned her about. But she had a job at an insurance company, and she was determined to survive, and so she did.
— Mohsin Hamid, Exit West
Now the soft-voiced gentle woman of my reverent worship has all but vanished, in her place has come the woman who thinks that her chief success in life lies in making herself as much as possible like man—in dress, voice and actions, in sports and achievements of every kind.
— Nikola Tesla
Now the soft-voiced gentle woman of my reverent worship has all but vanished.
— Nikola Tesla
Never forget that each woman is, as a hole in a pocket, which no one can repair, and close that.
— Ehsan Sehgal
HIGGINS [sitting down beside her] Rubbish! you shall marry an ambassador. You shall marry the Governor-General of India or the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, or somebody who wants a deputy-queen. I'm not going to have my masterpiece thrown away on Freddy.LIZA. You think I like you to say that. But I haven't forgot what you said a minute ago; and I won't be coaxed round as if I was a baby or a puppy. If I can't have kindness, I'll have independence.HIGGINS. Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.LIZA [rising determinedly] I'll let you see whether I'm dependent on you. If you can preach, I can teach. I'll go and be a teacher.HIGGINS. What'll you teach, in heaven's name?LIZA. What you taught me. I'll teach phonetics.HIGGINS. Ha! Ha! Ha!
— George Bernard Shaw
That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people would want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste. But I'm not pretty, not close up anyway. Generally, the closer people get to me the less hot they find me.
— John Green, Paper Towns
For Beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness, and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone
— Audrey Hepburn
She smelled like water that had been warmed by the sun, and she also had the sharp, enticing aroma of birch leaves.
— Tadeusz Konwicki, A Minor Apocalypse
She was no longer the fair-haired, colourless girl whom I had seen at the church fifteen years before, but a stout, over-dressed lady, one of those ladies with no age, no character, no elegance, no wit, nor any of the attributes that constitute a woman. She was merely a mother, a fat, commonplace mother, the breeder, the human brood-mare, the procreating machine made of flesh, with no interests but her children and her cookery-book.
— Guy de Maupassant, 88 More Stories
And one of the things I learned is that one should live in spite of. Although, one should eat. Although, one should love. Although, it must die. Even it is often the same even though it pushes us forward. It was despite the fact that it gave me an unhappy anguish that was the creator of my own life.
— Clarice Lispector, Aprendizaje o El libro de los placeres
The person who can not bear with a sick man or a baby is not fit to be a woman.
— George MacDonald, Mary Marston
The original Hebrew word for woman, a word that is used twice to refer to the first woman, three times to refer to strong military forces, and sixteen times to refer to God, is this: Ezer...I learn this: "The word Ezer has two roots: strong and benevolent. The best translation of Ezer is: Warrior." God created woman as a Warrior.
— Glennon Doyle Melton, Love Warrior
You must listen to your woman more as an oracle than as an advisor
— David Deida, The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire
She was fighting for something, she feltalive and capable of responding to the challenges facing her.
— Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
That the loss of a man, even if he had been the love of her life, was not the end of a woman's existence.
— Sherry Thomas, A Study in Scarlet Women
This idealization of motherhood is essentially a means of keeping women from developing a sexual consciousness and from breaking through the barriers of sexual repression, of keeping alive their sexual anxieties and guilt feelings. The very existence of woman as a sexual being would threaten authoritarian ideology; her recognition and social affirmation would mean its collapse.
— Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism
There is only one creature who is always right is a WOMAN...!!!
— M.Rehan Behleem
A woman is like an egg salad sandwich on a hot Texas day.
— CheldonCooper
There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
— André Malraux
I think there is a natural maternal instinct that comes out, which creates a much more nurturing environment. I've been accused of misogyny in the past, for relationship stuff that’s been twisted in the press and for bullshit that gets said, and that gets to me because I've always had a huge amount of respect for women, and I think that all the women who I've surrounded myself with in both a professional and personal capacity would agree with that.
— Zayn Malik, Zayn: The Official Autobiography
The Right of Every Woman is to be LovedI am all Woman
— Neil Mach, Postcard Angel: An Innocent Girl Becomes The World's First Pin-up
The hormonal interplay inside a woman’s head creates her reality. Her hormones tell her day to day what’s important. They mold her desires and values.
— Abhijit Naskar, Neurosutra: The Abhijit Naskar Collection
Some days I am more wolf than woman, and I am still learning how to stop apologizing for my wild.
— Nikita Gill
So here I am, upside down in a woman.
— Ian McEwan, Nutshell
Arguing with a woman is like reading the Software License Agreement. In the end, you ignore everything and click I agree.
— Eyden I., Kiss Friendzone Goodbye
And yet. And yet. If asked - if pressed - Honora would have to say she is strangely content. It's an odd feeling that she cannot describe to anyone - not to her mother and certainly not to Sexton, whose unhappiness seems to have no bounds, whose unhappiness is defined now by what he does not have, which is almost everything. He will always, in his mind, be the salesman who no longer has anything to sell. A man who longs for the open road but who cannot ever take it. Whereas Honora, oddly, now has more purpose than she ever did before. She is a dutiful wife who tends to her husband in spite of his weaknesses. She is a woman with ingenuity. She is a woman without illusions. She is a woman who, above all, is too busy trying to make a go of it to fret about her marriage.
— Anita Shreve, Sea Glass
Man who treat Woman without respect and see Woman ONLY as a public toilett forget where they spend their first 9 months of their Life!
— Lily Amis, Angel of Love  Lily: Zak, My Sweet Inspiration
Man who TOY with Womans feelings and emotions are heartless & faithless creatures. But don’t hate them. Show empathy because they are poor & forgotten souls !
— Lily Amis, Angel of Love  Lily: Zak, My Sweet Inspiration
Woman! She's mother, she's daughter, she's sister; she's a unique creation of God; her womb is also root cause of mankind; her shadow provides gallantry; her affection heals life into the languid body; love her, worship her, you'll find paradise.
— Tanmaya Guru
This is woman, if you try to hurt her, she will kills you, but if you try to satisfied her, she will make you happy!
— Eyden I., Woman's Book: Only For Men
A naked woman was amazing.He'd never seen it this way, in full light, without half-off clothes or a beach blanket across the lap or sex in a dark car. This was her whole body naked in light, standing and lying and front and back and open and showing and then different when she walked, surer than he was, unclunky and smooth-moving, with parts that didn't bounce. She knew how to be naked. She looked like she'd been raised naked in this room, a skinny girl when she was a girl, probably, and skinny in a certain way, with a little bulgy belly and ashamed of her feet, but grown out of shyness and wrong proportions now, and being married of course, used to being seen, and she didn't have curves and swerves but was good looking naked and stuck to him when they fucked like a thing fighting for light, a great wet papery moth.
— Don DeLillo, Underworld
As a woman still,without the right kind of mouth,my tongue’s of no use.
— Kristen Henderson
If she is wrong educate her, don't belittle her.
— Eyden I., Woman's Book: Only For Men
A bachelor always feels himself defrauded, when he knows or suspects that any woman of his acquaintance has given herself away.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romance
She has lived and loved! There is no folded petal, no latent dewdrop, in this perfectly developed rose!
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
The heart of woman is like a diamond, who need a good skilled hunter.
— Eyden I., Woman's Book: Only For Men
It's not the small of her back, her thighs, or her chest or eyes that matter most. It's the parts of her she's afraid to show that you should get to know.
— J. Raymond
She is a woman. No matter how hard you think she has grown, she always has her softer parts. Feel her there.
— Akif Kichloo
Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her - when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?
— Helen Rowland
The closest I’d ever got to seeing a naked woman before was black and white cleavage, and then Rosie tossed her clothes in a corner just like they were getting in the way and spun around in the dim light of Number 16, palms up, luminous, laughing, almost close enough to touch. The thought still knocks the wind out of me. I was too young even to know what I wanted to do about her, I just knew nothing in the World, not the Mona Lisa walking through the Grand Canyon with the Holy Grail in one hand and a winning lotto ticket in the other, was ever going to be that beautiful.
— Tana French, Faithful Place
When distrust is so profound that it makes you wary of every word dripping from honeyed lips...It sharpens your instincts...Now for a woman, THAT is a powerful weapon...
— Virginia Alison
A Man Staying At Home All Day And Doing Nothing Could Be Worse Than A Psycho Woman.
— Ahmed Ali Anjum
And - just as with winning the lottery, or becoming famous - there is no manual for becoming a woman, even though the stakes are so high. God knows, when I was 13, I tried to find one. You can read about other people's experience on the matter - by way of trying to crib, in advance, for an exam - but I found that this is, in itself, problematic. For throughout history, you can read stories of women who - against all odds - got being a woman right, but ended up being compromised, unhappy, hobbled or ruined, because all around them, society was still wrong. Show a girl a pioneering hero - Sylvia Plath, Dorothy Parker, Frida Kahlo, Cleopatra, Boudicca, Joan of Arc - and you also, more often than not, show a girl a woman who was eventually crushed. Your hard-won triumphs can be wholly negated if you live in a climate where your victories are seen as threatening, incorrect, distasteful, or - most crucially of all, for a teenage girl - simply uncool. Few girls would choose to be right - right, down into their clever, brilliant bones - but lonely.
— Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman
A woman knows what it means to experience the world as her individual self. That gives her insight into her own reality.
— K.J. Kilton
The kind of woman whose goodness is oppressive
— Han Kang, The Vegetarian
there is no girl we are not always already making into a woman from the moment she is born — making a city in the dirt next to the boot of a man. It could be rage or love in his feet. The girl could be me or any other girl.
— Lidia Yuknavitch
Nay, he needs a woman, not a girl. And Laoghaire will be a girl when she’s fifty.
— Diana Gabaldon
One day the girl is taking a bath and calls out. The widow comes into the tiny bathroom and the water surrounding the girl’s legs is clouded with crimson. She slaps the girl in the face and smiles and kisses her on the cheeks. She says, “May you bloom.” The girl doesn’t flinch. The widow tells her, “This is the first language of your body. It is the word ne. When you bleed each month, as when the moon comes and goes in its journey, you leave the world of men. You enter the body of all women, who are connected to all of nature.” The girl asks, “Why is it the word ne?” The widow responds, “When you bleed, this word is more powerful than any word you could ever speak. It is a blood word. It binds you to animals and trees and the moon and the sun. Where men take blood in the world in hunting and war, women give blood. It is the word ne because it closes the room of a woman’s body to men.” The widow places her hands into the water and says, “Good. You are alive. You and I are alive.
— Lidia Yuknavitch, The Small Backs of Children
She roared with laughter. Passersby gave her strange looks, but she didn’t care. If she’d been able to stretch her vision to see beyond the trees he disappeared behind, she would have stopped laughing. She would have seen the couple who’d been in the dark street near the restaurant the previous night, again breaking into laughter when he felt it was safe to abandon the Wally persona. Everywhere she saw that one man, she didn’t see the woman behind him, with him, beside him, urging him on, supporting him. If she had, she might have wondered then who the display was really for.
— Cecelia Ahern, How to Fall in Love
I threw tantrums, I acted stubborn, I was a pain sometimes, but I was still loved. In fact, I was their perfect even in my imperfection.
— Kudrat Dutta Chaudhary, Laiza- Sometimes the end is only a Beginning
I wouldn't wish beauty on any woman who has not her own freedom, and who chooses not the hands that claim her.
— Lawrence Hill, The Book of Negroes
There is every board minded man behind the success of woman. But when that man is in legal relation then a woman can triumph among men
— Agha Kousar
Peggy spent most of her time upstairs in the playroom, keeping him cleaned and fed. She was made to bring out the baby and accept praise for her work as if she were a being of a slightly lower social class – which she was. A woman.
— Nell Zink, Mislaid
Take one Naive Girl. Bring to room temperature in the Big City. Add three cups Academia. If in one cup Encouragement. Fold in two drop Love. Sprinkle with one teaspoon Adoration. Mix thoroughly. Spoon carefully into greased Pan of Matrimony. Bake in Desert Heat for 25. Test doneness with Careless Toothpick. Let cool on Wire Rack of Inertia. Serve with generous dollops of Benign Neglect.
— Elizabeth J. Church, The Atomic Weight of Love
Treat your woman with respect, because one day someone will do the same to your daughter.
— Moosa Rahat
A woman without her sister is like a bird without her wings.
— Moosa Rahat
We are all very much alike in France in this respect; we still remain knights, knights of love and fortune, since God has been abolished whose bodyguard we really were. But nobody can ever get woman out of our hearts; there she is, and there she will remain, and we love her, and shall continue to love her, and go on committing all kinds of follies on her account as long as there is a France on the map of Europe; and even if France were to be wiped off the map, there would always be Frenchmen left.
— Guy de Maupassant, The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, Part One
As a childI put my finger in the fireto becomea saint.As a teenagerevery day I would knock my head against the wall.As a young girlI went out through a window of a garretto the roofin order to jump.As a womanI had lice all over my body.They cracked when I was ironing my sweater.I waited sixty minutesto be executed.I was hungry for six years.Then I bore a child,they were carving mewithout putting me to sleep.Then a thunderbolt killed methree times and I had to rise from the dead three timeswithout anyone’s help.Now I am restingafter three resurrections.
— Anna Swir
A woman who is praying and a woman who is having fun, they both say " Oh My God", the only difference is how they pronounce it.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
That just goes to show, remarked Pearlie, that you must never judge a woman in a kimono or a bathing suit.
— Edna Ferber
The here, the now and the individual have always been the special concern of the saint, the artist, the poet and -- from time immemorial--the woman.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
A woman's heart and a woman's dreams are malleable and can change at any moment. It is the essence of being a woman.
— Chloe Thurlow, Katie in Love
A man can own a woman, and a man can own a knife, but no man can own both,
— George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
There is nothing in a crowded street more noticeable than a man running ― unless it is a woman.
— Robert Ludlum, The Matlock Paper
I don't understand, then, why, in the midst of all this, pregnant women - women trying to make rational decisions about their futures and, usually, that of their families, too - should be subject to more pressure about preserving life than, say, Vladimir Putin, the World Bank, or the Catholic Church.
— Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman
Woman is in love with the devil.
— Nikolai Gogol, Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
A woman loves purposeful commitment.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Every woman is as bitter as gall. But she has two good moments: one in bed, the other at her death.
— Palladas
Style is the woman herself.
— Amit Abraham
When a confident woman allows you to take over the care of her, you’re both elevated to a higher level.
— Brownell Landrum, A Chorus of Voices: DUET stories Volume III - Adult Version
She didn't shed a tear. Angels don't cry.
— Hiroshi Sakurazaka, All You Need Is Kill 2
A woman who truly loves herself better loves others.
— Toni Sorenson
In the search for an author [of Hebrews] we are virtually stumbling over Priscilla. No longer is it feasible to pretend she isn't there.
— Ruth Hoppin
What I discovered this freak me out. That the people will check out a book with naked woman, but won't check out a book without this WHY??What are the differences?
— Deyth Banger
She's not sensual. She doesn't want affairs. It's just cold-blooded experiment on her part and the fun of stirring people up and setting them against each other. She dabbled in that too. She's the sort of woman who's never had a row with anyone in her life--but rows always happen where she is! She makes them happen. She's kind of female Iago. She must have drama. But she doesn't want to be involved herself. She's always outside pulling strings--looking on--enjoying it!
— Agatha Christie, Murder in Mesopotamia