“ And middle-class women, although taught to value established forms, are in the same position as the working class: neither can use established forms to express what the forms were never intended to ex… Joanna Russ
“ Strength is taking charge of your own destiny and not waiting on others to do so. You don’t have to swear and drink and beat people up and slay monsters. You’re allowed to cry and take care of childre… Mur Lafferty
“ A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men when they were by themselves. Was I, by any chance, a member of a large, mixed family with a lot of mal… Dorothy L. Sayers
“ You and those shot-glass eyes, deep swirling pools of 80-proof firewater, with the depth and profundity of Saturn’s spinning pulsars… Brandi L. Bates
“ As she bends for a Kleenex in the dark, I am thinking of other girls: the girl I loved who fell in love with a lion--she lost her head over it--we just necked a lot; of the girl who fell in love with… Daphne Gottlieb
“ All those other girls are cake...I'm Crème brûlée...Tiramisu, if you will. Just a few notches above. Brandi L. Bates
“ Woman-another word for beginning.another word for revolution.another word for healing.another word for being.another word for me. Ava
“ Love is my thighs,this belly,my eyes.love is my speech,the search,my cry.love is myself in the mirror.i will see love every time. Ava
“ After breakfast I spent an hour cleaning my revolver and trying my skill at a target. Jane shook her head, probably thinking that bullets were vain against demonic powers. But Perdita was hugely delig… Julian Hawthorne
“ As for my own part I care not for death, for all men are mortal; and though I be a woman yet I have as good a courage answerable to my place as ever my father had. I am your anointed Queen. I will nev… Elizabeth I
“ Most men fear getting laughed at or humiliated by a romantic prospect while most women fear rape and death. Gavin de Becker
“ Other people will not always see our worth the way we wish they would. Sometimes our own loved ones won’t be able to compute our true value. That doesn’t mean you are of less value or worth. It means… Stalina Goodwin
“ You must remember that you were made so that the world might be graced with a brilliance that only YOU can display. Stalina Goodwin
“ Don’t allow anyone to shame you with your life story. Walk in your truth knowing that you are the better because of it. It is because of all the things you've been through that you are able to be who… Stalina Goodwin
“ Somewhere someone else’s break-through is hinging on you simply knowing that you matter. So please, remind yourself of this truth every single day. Stalina Goodwin
“ The truth is that you may mess up a bit. Don’t panic. Relax and remember to give your best and let the chips fall where they may. Stalina Goodwin
“ You will trip up and fall sometimes. It doesn't take away from how great you are. You will not always say the right thing. It doesn't revoke the light within you. Stalina Goodwin
“ Women think in [Douglas] Sirk’s films. Something which has never struck me with other directors. None of them. Usually women are always reacting, doing what women are supposed to do, but in Sirk they… Rainer Werner Fassbinder
