About Women Quotes
Once you break someone’s heart, you are forever its master.
Nothing felt better to him than the act of waiting for her. As long as he believed it wasn’t in vain, he was able to justify his presence.
It was almost as if she had willed him into existence, into standing before her at the precise moment she was willing to accommodate him, arriving not a minute too early or too late.
Most people surrendered fairy tale hopes in exchange for cookie cutter lives
His fierce appreciation of female beauty, the unrelenting desire he felt for their company, the pleasure he both derived and sought to give, had led him in and out of quite a few bedroom doors.
But inside loss there can be gain, too, like the small silver spider Bela had discovered one dewy morning, curled asleep at the center of a rose.
No girl can forget the day she lost her virginity, or the circumstance that led to it
On the misty window of her room, she let her finger trace a broken line. She was that line.
When you least expect it, you run in to an old friend from school, or the neighbour’s cat, not Mary the Virgin Mother of God.
Its magnificence was indescribable, and its magnitude was inconceivable. She felt overwhelmed in the presence of its greatness. Pg 87
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.
When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.
I am done looking for love where it doesn’t exist. I am done coughing up dust in attempts to drink from dry wells.
Human rights are women’s rights, and women’s rights are human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely — and the right to be heard.
The word feminism has become synonymous with man-hating when in fact it has more to do with women than men.
We are taught we can redeem them, she said to me once. We are taught it as soon as we can read. We can turn the beast into a prince, if only we love him enough.
If we are serious about change, we have to dig - preferably with plenty of company and with a full appreciation of the fact that although we did not start the fire, it belongs to us now.
I voted for every woman who has to leave a baby too soon, who has to downgrade her career, or who is made to feel invisible in her role as a mother.
I predict an hour when the term Women In Art will be as strange sounding a topic as the title Men In Art would be now.
There was virtually no aspect of twentieth-century defense technology that had not been touched by the hands and minds of female mathematicians.
A society has no chance of success if it's women are uneducated.
The Goddess helps us heal the deep wound within us that tells us we are unworthy.
The feminine political voice is personal. It's intimate. It's caregiving and life enhancing. It's about bringing more love, caring and justice into the world. It's also fierce and determined.
When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I travel.
My father did not have to trade dying alone for the joys of the road. My mother did not have to give up a journey of her own to have a home. Neither do I. Neither do you.
You can't exploit a woman who has based her entire career on exploiting herself.
However benevolent men may be in their intentions, they cannot know what women want and what suits the necessities of women's lives as well as women know these things themselves.
You can be freak of the week, critical thinker & a domestic goddess all in one. There is a beauty in your layers, never dumb yourself down.
So, what you're saying is, just because a warrior is a woman doesn't mean they yhave to wear a chain mail bikini? Like, they could wear...real armor?
Women in love are patheticand I cannot be bothered, for now, I am back to metaphysicsand my armpits gather hair.
After all, the more women are developed internally, the more this is threatening to a society that insists on seeing them merely externally.
I am afraid, my dear niece, that a ‘mere woman’ is something you most certainly are not.
I only had three teachers, really, that were interesting, and all three of them were women.
Don’t ever compliment me by insulting other women. That’s not a compliment, it’s a competition none of us agreed to.
This is how women are trained to stay indoors, she thought, the idea echoing in her mind like a gravesong. This is how women are trained not to act.
I spent a lot of time vacillating between wanting to be seen as attractive, being terrified by too much attention, and wanting to succeed and fit in without anyone's noticing me.
EVERYTIMEA GIRL WISHESTOBE A BOY BADLY, IT'S A SIGNAL THAT OUT SOCIETY FAILED IN ITS DEEDS SOMEWHERE.
I can be totally feminine and totally feminist. The two are not mutually exclusive.
People are kinder to the unborn than they are to the women themselves, and soon I had my ticket.
A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover -- but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change.
Women were supposed to be strong, but they weren't really, they weren't allowed to be.
Children are often like hostages under the care of authority, with spankings and groundings nudging them like guns pointed at their skulls, threatening to shoot if the wrong words are uttered.