“Because of their DNA, most men loved a damsel in distress. Every time a man sees a pretty lass in trouble, even the boorish slob-of-a-man transforms into a chivalrous knight-in-shining-armour. This...”

“That is when time stands still - when you watch the one you love, walk away.”

“To say she was attractive would be an understatement. Calling her 'attractive' would be like calling the Taj Mahal a marble grave.”

“He gave a wry smile. With all this vigilant vigils on virginity, you would think the country would have controlled its population by now.”

“There is nothing more heartbreaking than to see the woman you love, the one woman you would do anything to protect, is the woman who is afraid of you. It broke his heart.”

“Living in a small town [in India] was like living in a glass house!”

“When man will return to nature, nature will return to him.”

“The sky is an enormous man.”

“When the full-grown poet came,Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine;But out spake too the Soul of man, proud, jealous and unr...”

“Many women say that verbal violence causes more harm than physical violence because it damages self-esteem so deeply. Women have not wanted to hear battered women say that the verbal abuse was as h...”

“Jake did a quick run-through of women in his mind, not of the ones he had known or dealt with in the past few months of years so much as all of them: their concern with the surface of things, with ...”

“Shevek saw that he had touched in these men an impersonal animosity that went very deep. Apparently they, like the tables on the ship, contained a woman, a suppressed, silenced, bestialized woman, ...”

“Once you start laughing, you start healing.”

“All you need to find a strong, loving man is the knowledge and understanding of the power you have as a woman.”

“No matter how rich, powerful or handsome he is, he is defenseless against your womanly power.”