Quotes About Women

men and women desperate enough to risk death to express their wishes.19

Thus capitalism, which elevated patriarchy by turning its major value, power, into the only value, also destabilized it by enabling women for the first time in history to become economically independent.

It is one of the best traits of good people that they love where they pity. And this is truer of women than of men.

There were, in fact, several churches whose visions of sin and salvation were so ecstatic, and so nearly identical, that the superiority of one church over another could be argued only in terms of good works. And the obligation to perform these works rested squarely with the women, since salvation was universally considered to be much more becoming in women than in men.

And she would feel that sharp loneliness she had felt every long evening since she was a child. It was the kind of loneliness that made clocks seem slow and loud and made voices sound like voices across water. Old women she had known, first her grandmother and then her mother, rocked on their porches in the evenings and sang sad songs, and did not wish to be spoken to.

You would never have imagined that almost empty sanctuary, just a few women there with heavy veils on to try to hide the masks they were wearing, and two or three men. I preached with a scarf around my mouth for more than a year. Everyone smelled like onions, because word went around that flu germs were killed by onions. People rubbed themselves down with tobacco leaves.

When I asked [her maternal grandmother that lived to the age of 103] what she remembered about the First and Second World Wars, she told me the following: "Germans are very correct. The Italians always look for a piano and want to make a party. But when the Russians come, everyone runs away because they rape all the women, young and old alike.

Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers to help them survive.

Listen to me. I will tell you the truth about a man's life. I will tell you the truth about his love for women.

V?riešiem sekss vajadz?gs, lai sagatavotos doties kauj? ar pašapzi?u. Sieviet?m sekss vajadz?gs zaud?juma b?du remd?šanai vai k? da?a no uzvaras gandar?juma.

An intelligent, reasonable man in most cases has nothing to fear from women. You must beware of two things. Number one and most dangerous: the damsel in distress. Two: a woman who has more ambition than you do.

Las ideas eran esenciales, pero, si no las acompañaba una acción resuelta de las víctimas —las mujeres y los obreros—, las bellas palabras se harían humo y nunca saldrían de los mentideros parisinos.

manifiesta una constante sentimental de Flaubert: amar a mujeres mayores (sus tres amantes le llevaron varios años: Eulalie Foucaud, Elisa Schlésinger y Louise Colet).

Le donne sono formidabili, - disse Carlitos. - Sgualdrine, comuniste, borghesi, cholas, tutte hanno qualcosa che noi non abbiamo. Non sarebbe meglio essere finocchi, Zavalita? Mettersi con qualcosa che conosci, e non con quegli strani animali.

Above all, do not say anything intelligent. Gentlemen abhor intelligent women.

It's a well-known fact. All women are clinically insane, but especially ballet dancers. Psycho. extremely psycho. Trust me.

Women of Manhattan, magnificent as they were, they forgot sometimes they weren't immortal. They could throw themselves like confetti into a fun-filled Friday night, with no thought as to what crack they fell into by Saturday.

One man who had known Lloyd years earlier said flatly that he "hated women.

porque cuando nos hablan del Peligro que suponen los Desconocidos en el colegio dicen que si un hombre se te acerca y te habla y te da miedo debes buscar a una señora y correr hacia ella, porque las señoras son más seguras.

We're not dealing with Isaac Newton here. She likes what she calls 'romance.' To her that means candles, rose petals, and a bathtub. I don't understand what this thing is that women have about candles. All I can say is that there must've been a hell of a lot of sex in the eighteenth century.

In fact, the entire breastfeeding issue was an early version of the modern abortion issue, with men trying to make the decisions about what women should do with their bodies.

It was a clear, picturesque day, a February day without could, without emotion or spirit, like a beautiful women with an empty face.

Maybe we missed an important moment in history there. When we finally closed down home ec, maybe we missed an opportunity. Instead of shutting down compulsory cooking classes for young women, maybe we would have been far better off simply demanding that the men learn how to cook, too.

Daydreams of wealth or women must have given Carolo that faraway look which never left him; sad and silent, he contemplated huge bank balances and voluptuous revels.