34 quotes found
“I'm not the marrying kind -"St. Vincent snorted. "No man is. Marriage is a female invention.”
“How was she created? I'm not sure if you realize this, but it was in God's image. How can anybody dare to speak ill of something which bears such a noble imprint?”
“Today, we live in a vastly different world. The person more qualified to lead is not the physically stronger person. It is the more intelligent, the more knowledgeable, the more creative, more inno...”
“Few female characters get to be the Chosen One in science fiction and fantasy. Leia is as much the child of Darth Vader as Luke is, but only Luke gets to use the force, be recruited by his dad and ...”
“When women turn on women, and take cheap shots at their decisions purely to score political points it serves as proof that feminism, as a movement, is dead and no longer relevant or credible.”
“Oh, Al, shut up! Stop criticizing me! First I'm criticized for being a prude and sounding like a social worker or something, then I'm criticized for looking like a cheap broad. How am I supposed to...”
“For my relationships with men to change, I needed to change my relationship to myself as a woman.”
“No, I have no desire to be a feminist, I just want to be a female,”
“Women are females and men are males. According to gynaecologists, women menstruate every month or so, while men, being male, do not menstruate or suffer during the monthly period. A women, being fe...”
“I have been envious of male characteristics, if not the men themselves. I'm jealous of the ease with which they seem to inhabit their professional pursuits: the lack of apologizing, of bending over...”
“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.”
“No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sinbecause we were born to female creatures. Only by obeying the rules of the patriarchy can we be reborn through men. No wond...”
“The female is, as it were, a mutilated male, and the catamenia are semen, only not pure; for there is only one thing they have not in them, the principle of soul.”
“Women that can work a camera with ease often work men just as effortlessly for both require the same commitment to vanity and manipulation.”
“One realizes the immortality of true love only after the lover dies”
“The woman is not just a pleasure, nor even a problem. She is a meniscus that allows the absolute to have a shape, that lets him skate however briefly on the mystery, her presence luminous on the or...”
“I am just as human as the man.”
“A man's plumbing is like his mind: simple, very few surprises. You ladies, on the other hand...well, God put a lot of thought in making you.”
“You felt she'd done a thousand secret things to her eyes. They needed no haze of cigarette smoke to look at you out of sexy and fathomless, but carried their own along with them. New York must have...”
“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 ...”
