Quotes About Women

It is the truest, simplest answer to his question. "Women get on with it. For us it was a shadow war. There were no parades for us when it was over, no medals or mentions in history books. We did what we had to during the war, and when it was over, we picked up the pieces and started our lives over.

Think about the women who fought for the vote. They had to be scared, too, but they marched for change, even if it meant going to jail. And now we can vote. Sometimes the end is worth any sacrifice.

Men tell stories", I say. It is the truest, simplest answer to his question. Women get on with it. For us it was a shadow war. There were no parades for us when it was over, no medals or mentions in history books. We did what we had to during the war, and when it was over, we picked up the pieces and started our lives over.

Kate placed her hand on her mother's. They both understood; every at-home mom in the world understood. Ultimately there were prices to be paid for the choices a woman made. "You're my hero, Mom," Kate said simply.

Men tell stories," I say. It is the truest, simplest answer to his question. "Women get on with it. For us it was a shadow war. There were no parades for us when it was over, no medals or mentions in history books. We did what we had to during the war, and when it was over, we picked up the pieces and started our lives over. Your sister was as desperate to forget it as I was. Maybe that was another mistake I made—letting her forget. Maybe we should have talked about it.

Only tough women lasted on Texas farmland.

They'd sewn their lives together in the silent way of women unused to conversation.

y, a pesar de la diferencia de edad entre ellas —que era de al menos diez años, quizá más—, se habían hecho amigas del mismo modo en que se hacen amigas mujeres que llevan vidas paralelas; una amistad sin palabras, pero no por ello menos sincera.

Women were integral to the Resistance. Why couldn't men see that?

Women get on with it. For us it was a shadow war. There were no parades for us when it was over, no medals or mentions in history books. We did what we had to during the war, and when it was over, we picked up the pieces and started our lives over.

cómo podía encontrarse? ¿Cómo podía una mujer entender su propia historia sin haber conocido antes la de su madre?

She gave him a pointed look. Did people say things like this to men? Women were integral to the Resistance. Why couldn't men see that? He

It was the holiday season, the time of year that turned women into card-carrying split personalities.

Some women nodded, others shook their heads. I would have killed myself before I let one of them move into my house. Would you Helen? Would you really?

I have never met a woman who works who doesn't feel guilty. I mean we all deny it like crazy but deep down there is always that voice saying you should be at home.

We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.

Women's fiction is just a marketing category, designed to appeal more to women than to men. But there are stories in that category that any human being would like.

I like the comfort in knowing that women are generally superior and naturally less violent than men. I like the comfort in knowing that women are the only future in rock and roll.

A slippery bunch, the fairer sex. On a grand scale, they couldn't get much done.

All men are rabbits," she retorts, her eyes flying open. "They sniff around, fuck whatever's available, and then they run off. Fucking rabbits. And we're Elmer Fudd, inadvertently blowing up our own lives while obsessively trying to hunt one down.

These are professional mamas, sisters, and girlfriends. In other words, these are real women with real strength and sensuality

Women find beauty in men only when they find strength; there's something wrong with a woman when she falls in love with a fellow because he is pretty.

I was impressed by her boldness—back in Mystic Falls, only women of ill repute would ever enter a barroom. But as I was fast realizing, New Orleans wasn't Mystic Falls.

Women are at little trouble to express what they do not feel; but men are still at less to express what they do feel.