Carol Shields Quote

They'll say you are bador perhaps you are mador at least you should stay undercover.Your mind must be bareif you would dareto think you can love more than one lover.

He was no god, just an artist; and when an artist is a man, he needs a woman to create like a god.

Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.

I don't have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men.

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

Young women today feel vulnerable to judgment; if a harsh sentence is passed (or even suspected or projected), it is not her reputation that suffers so much as the stability of her moral universe. The...

When a Wanderess has been caged, or perched with her wings clipped, She lives like a Stoic, She lives most heroic, smiling with ruby, moistened lips once her cup of Death is welcome sipped.

Women could probably be trained quite easily to see men first as sexual things. If girls never experienced sexual violence; if a girl's only window on male sexuality were a stream of easily available,...

Making God a man is the consolation prize that our forefathers gave themselves for not being the ones who were each blessed with a vagina.

The confusion boys experience about their identity is heightened during adolescence. In many ways the fact that today's boy often has a wider range of emotional expression in early childhood, but if f...