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“You see only the cats paw, Signor Tartini, whereas I see the sharp claws hidden in that paw!.. Women are like fire; they warm you from afar, and when you enter into them they burn you to ashes!”
“We need grandchildren here, Petes mother said to mewhen we visited. You dont get married just to eat and fart.”
“Where some one else's welfare is concerned, a young girl becomes as ingenious as a thief. Guileless where she herself is in question, and full of foresight for me,--she is like a heavenly angel for...”
“I probably have more female friends than any man I've ever met. What I like about them is that almost always they're generally mentally tougher, and they're better listeners, and they're more capab...”
“The door of the bar opened, showing him a momentary oblong of true daylight, blankly white. A woman entered. He couldn't see her face as she crossed to the bar in front of the window, but he could ...”
“She had abruptly flipped from the southern belle and was now putting on the extremely businesslike air of those perfectionist women who'd only worked in the professional world for two or three year...”
“I hear the singing of the lives of women. The clear mystery, the offering, and the pride.”
“But pomp and power alone are woman's care,And where these are light Eros finds a feere;Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare,And Mammon wins his way where Seraphs might despair.”
“When bad things happen to men we say its terrible, but when bad things happen to women we say thats just a cultural practice, says Lou de Baca, U.S. Ambassador at Large, Office to Combat and Monito...”
“Perhaps grown women are beings of a good deal more complexity than cats”
“Always the way!" muttered the Jew to himself as he turned homewards. "The worst of these women is, that a very little thing serves to call up some long-forgotten feeling; and the best of them is, t...”
“It is not really hard to understand when women say that they like 'tall,dark and handsome' men..They simply mean a tall man with dark fantasies and handsome salary..”
“Still trying to figure out the dynamics of rights and responsibilities as a woman? How about striking out the word Woman and making it Human.”
“Trusting women means also trusting them to find their way. This isnt to say, of course, that I think womens sexual choices are intrinsically empowered or feminist. I just believe that in a world th...”
“Women were very queer. Unexpectedly cruel and unexpectedly kind.”
“. . since [no] women whose acquaintance I had made in fiction had much to do with the life I led or wanted to lead, I was not female. . . . if Molly Bloom was a woman. what was I? A mutant or a din...”
“I am going to stop mainlining my life force / Into your self-esteem: / Air pump girl blowing up boy rubber ball / You can stay flat and go nowhere by yourself”
“As long as there have been women," Mom told me, "there have been ways to punish them for being women.”
“Mr Reichman was brilliant and very good at what he did, but he was still a man, and men rarely knew what decisions a woman had or hadn't made.”
“Things can get pretty rough out there," he says. "Can't they? For you girls? You're all a bunch of warriors, aren't you? Lionhearted.”
