Quotes About Women

To belittle romance fiction is to belittle women. To read romance fiction is to confront the strength of women, the variety of their experience, and the validity of their aspirations and achievements.

Women want equality until they think that acting hysterical can give them an edge. Then suddenly, they're the victims of their hormones.

A harem," she murmured into his neck and laughed at last at the notion. "I can't believe you had a harem. You are hilarious, Stuart." He laughed. At himself. "I hated men. I loved women. I wanted them all. It seemed logical to start to accumulate them.

Maternal absence, in one form or another, is always found in the background of the incest romance. Womens literature on incest generally treats the theme of maternal absence tragically. Mens literature trivializes it or treats it comically. And clinical literature tends to treat it judgmentally.

The righteous anger of women and other subordinated groups, which violates dominant norms of compliant and willing submission, is always particularly threatening

in practice the standard for what constitutes rape is set not at the level of women's experience of violation but just above the level of coercion acceptable to men.

The legal system is designed to protect men from the superior power of the state but not to protect women or children from the superior power of men. It therefore provides strong guarantees for the rights of the accused but essentially no guarantees for the rights of the victim. If one set out by design to devise a system for provoking intrusive post-traumatic symptoms, one could not do better than a court of law.

He didn't want to puff her up. Puffed-up women are one of the original sources of trouble in the world. If anyone knew that, it was he. He counted it as one of his duties to mankind to keep women from puffing themselves up, though it had been a most monumental duty in his own marriage. A job requiring a hero. It was one of those things that God, being male, questioned you about before you were let into heaven, and he was proud to say that he hadn't neglected it.

this women's liberation thing is simply an American fad" and would pass.

When I repeated what I had been told, namely that women couldn't be successful in business, she was astonished.

who would ask for help from nobody but would be quick to offer it. He found himself outside the study door and hesitated, then made up his mind. He tapped and walked in. The men were standing by the window, deep in conversation, the women were sitting by the fireplace, equally engrossed. 'Thought I'd just tell you

I understood and appreciated the miracle of birth, but I did not understand motherhood, nor did I appreciate the oveselling of it. To me it was a choice, one of many options. To others it was what women did. We were supposed to breed. It had been decided for us. Society expected it. Religion demanded it.

For the past 21 years, I've been privileged to be part of an amazing organization called the International Women's Media Foundation.

Las manos reflejaban el alma de las mujeres y su condición social.

People will think you're courting me.' 'Nonsense, everyone knows I don't court respectable women.

And your eyes . . . ," she continued, emboldened by his reaction. "Women would kill for eyes that color, did you know?" He shook his head, and something about his expression—­so baffled, so overcome—­made her smile with pure joy.

It was those eyes as much as anything that had earned him his reputation as a man to be reckoned with. When he stared at a person, clear and unwavering, men grew uncomfortable. Women positively shivered.

Oh, go right ahead,' she replied. 'You seem to have such an affinity for canines.' 'Clearly,' he shot back, keeping his voice low so that Mary could not hear, 'they are not so different from women. Both breeds hang on my every word.

Mysterious creatures, women. If they could just learn to say what they meant, the world would be a far simpler place.

We are women. And the men who hold our fates hardly conceive that we have desires and dreams of our own. If we are ever to live the lives we want, we have to make them conceive it. Our bravery, the force of our will, shall be their proof.

He wanted to laugh at the poetic justice of it all. After a couple of years of chasing after women and then a decade of having them chase after him, he'd finally been brought down by a slip of a girl, fresh out of Cornwall, whom he was honor-bound to protect.

He is asking Caroline to produce a list," Georgina explained. "What sort of list?" Finchley asked. "A list of women to marry," Hugh said feeling as if his idea had been a stupid one. Now even Finchbird would take the piss out of him as well. "I find that one wife is more than enough," his brother-in-law said grinning.

Gregory knew a thing or two about women, the most important of which was that it was always a good idea to befriend the friend, provided they really were friends, and not just that odd thing women did where they pretended to be friends and were actually just waiting for the perfect moment to knife each other in the ribs.

Las mujeres eran criaturas misteriosas. Si pudieran aprender a decir lo que realmente querían decir, el mundo sería de lejos un lugar más sencillo.