Listen to me. Forget all you saw. Leave it. Take your mind from it. It has nothing to do with you. But use it for experience. Now you know what hurt it brings to women when men come into the world. Re...
Lilies used to be a movie theatre, before. Students went there a lot; every spring they had a Humphrey Bogart festival, with Lauren Bacall or Katherine Hepburn, women on their own, making up their min...
(pl. ) of Herdswoman
(pl. ) of Woman
(n.) pl. of Woman.
Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.
It was raining again the next morning, a slanting gray rain like a swung curtain of crystal beads. I got up feeling sluggish and tired and stood looking out of the windows, with a dark, harsh taste of...
It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must dev...
Do women dress for men or women? I’ve always wondered why that eternally provocative question is put in terms of approval - as if the heart of the matter, the answer, were indeed a question of approva...
And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's life, gay in the morning, restless all day, tired at sundown? Her heart simple and...
According to Tobias, women hang around longer because they’re less capable of indignation and better at being humiliated, for what is old age but one long string of indignities? What person of integri...
In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pliant daughter. The neighborhood I'd grown up in was homogeneously Hindu, Bengali-...
As I grow older, I think friendship between women is a thing to cherish.
As a little girl, my destiny was stamped onto the canvas of my imagination at 5 years old. I was watching soaps with my grandmother... The most gorgeous black women I had ever seen in my life came out...
These archetypal older women in movies can sometimes make my skin crawl. It's about the one dimension it's about the lack of any texture.
In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent.
I know a lot of the work that paved the way for women happened before I was around... I was never that feminist girl demanding equality, but maybe that's because I've never really faced inequality.
The women's movement in the 1970s led more women into the workforce and got them closer to pay equality.
What will not woman gentle woman dare When strong affection stirs her spirit up?
Of my two 'handicaps' being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.
The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start.
My MOTIVATION was struggling..I got Tired of it!
Men want to be known and loved for who they are by women.