“ The only deep emotion I occasionally felt in these affairs was gratitude, when all was going well and I was left, not only peace, but freedom to come and go--never kinder and gayer with one woman than… Albert Camus
“ I don't think he was ever happy unless someone was in love with him, responding to him like filings to a magnet, helping him to explain himself, promising him something. What it was I do not know. Per… F. Scott Fitzgerald
“ From women's eyes this doctrine I derive:They sparkle still the right Promethean fire;They are the books, the arts, the academes,That show, contain and nourish all the world. William Shakespeare
“ There's not a place in the whole world where everyone isn't willing--no, eager--to give a girl up to a man. Rae Carson
“ A girl is different. They want things. They need things on a regular schedule. Why, a girl's got purposes you and me can't even imagine. They got ideas in their heads you and me can't even suppose. Kent Haruf
“ As far as I'm concerned, men like you were put on this world to entertain women like me. Susan Elizabeth Phillips
“ ..by honouring the demands of our bleeding, our blood gives us something in return. The crazed bitch from irritation hell recedes. In her place arises a side of ourselves with whom we may not-at first… Inga Muscio
“ Any rapist would feel pretty dang upset to see his car packed full with rotting fish heads and limburger cheese...Also, if the 542 women responsible were crowded onto the street where he lived, insist… Inga Muscio
“ A woman's sense of self and power should come not from the number of heads she can turn, but rather from the minds and hearts she can turn. Tziporah Heller
“ It is so demanding to be born into a house full of women, where everyone loves you so overwhelmingly that they end up suffocating with their love; a house where you, as the only child, have to be more… Elif Shafak
“ A person didn’t need to be beautiful, they just needed to be loved. But I couldn’t help wanting it. If that was the way I could be loved, to be beautiful, I’d take it Janet Fitch
“ ...to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humour, to make them visible so that can not be ravaged in the dark without great consequence. Eve Ensler
“ The time came to put Iris Duarte back on the plane.It was a morning flight which made it difficult. I wasused to rising at noon; it was a fine cure for hangoversand would add 5 years to my life. I fel… Charles Bukowski
“ She walked with measured steps, draped in striped and fringed cloths, treading the earth proudly, with a slight jingle and flash of barbarous ornaments. She carried her head high; her hair was done in… Joseph Conrad
“ Women were like rivers, their banks were unreachable, the night often rang with the cries of the drowned. Thomas Bernhard
