40 quotes found
“I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes.”
“The world has enough women who know how to be smart. It needs women who are willing to be simple. The world has enough women who know how to be brilliant. It needs some who will be brave. The world...”
“The heart of a woman is the best mirror you can find.”
“I believe that a godly home is a foretaste of heaven. Our homes, imperfect as they are, must be a haven from the chaos outside. They should be a reflection of our eternal home, where troubled souls...”
“In trans women's eyes, I see a wisdom that can only come from having to fight for your right to be recognized as female, a raw strength that only comes fro unabashedly asserting your right to be fe...”
“His shadow stretched out past mine. I remembered Mom telling me how frightening men were, all men really, how helpless it often felt to be a woman among men, and for the first time I understood wha...”
“And yet, because I am without a doubt mortal, I have the troubling desire to do good, to please, to communicate my warmth, to still be very beautiful sometimes to inspire a taste for beauty. I know...”
“While mass-media images of biological "males" feminizing themselves have the subversive potential to highlight ways conventionally defined femininity is artificial (a point feminists make all the t...”
“God made man stronger but not necessarily more intelligent. He gave women intuition and femininity. And, used properly, that combination easily jumbles the brain of any man Ive ever met.”
“There was something factitious and brittle and thereby utterly feminine about her charm which made me want to crush her, even to crunch her. She had a slight cast in one eye which gives her gaze a ...”
“I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be (among other things) both sensual and maternal.”
“Because misogynists are the best of men. All the poets reacted to these words with hooting. Boccaccio was forced to raise his voice: Please understand me. Misogynists dont despise women. Misogynist...”
“The dilemma for women who love to write may not have so much to do with finding the elusive literary voice, as with being reluctant to use the one that's already lurking inside, just waiting for th...”
“Thirty years on, femininity is still compulsory for womenand has become an option for menwhile genuine femaleness remains grotesque to the point of obscenity. Meanwhile, the price of the small adva...”
“She drew gallantry from men as the sun drew water. Her pertness enchanted them. Young men went away from her with a feeling of bravado. Old men were enslaved by her silver curls. Something about he...”
“We long for an intimate connection, but that longing makes us feel vulnerable. Therefore, we guard our hearts for self-preservation, which barricades that intimacy we are longing for. Casual sex is...”
“I wonder if anyone but me realizes what goes on in that head back of your deceptively sweet face.”
“But many people do not fully realize that there are terrible consequences when people becoming things. Self-image is deeply affected. The self-esteem of girls plummets as they reach adolescence par...”
“Nay, he needs a woman, not a girl. And Laoghaire will be a girl when shes fifty.”
“The sight of God in woman is the most perfect of all." Ibn Arabi.”
