Quotes About Women

Women are instinctively motivated by perfection, and the need to be perceived as perfect enough to be pleasing — and therefore, protected and provided for. But not too perfect so as to cause jealousy in other women. This is the source of our drive to improve ourselves, and our fear of standing out at the same time." Karen

I'd never watched The Bachelor myself and was basing everything on preconceptions. But somehow the idea of all these intelligent young women competing pageant-style for the love of some blandly handsome pharmaceutical sales rep who kept talking about his "journey.

Day care was intended from the start to be a weak system, as scholars of the history of childcare tell me, like a punishment for needing care because a woman didn't have a husband or some other means of support.

Women, I thought: if they fell over a cliff and thought there was company waiting at the bottom, they'd comb their hair on the way down.

It was impossible for Catus to understand that, in Celtic society, women had status and could rule. In Rome, women had the same legal standing as children.

Wash your gullet with wine for the Dog Star returns with the hear of summer searing a thirsting earth. Cicadas cry softy under high leaves, and pour down shrill song incessantly from under their wings. The artichoke blooms, and women are warm and wanton— but men turn lean and limp for the burning Dog Star parches their brains and knees.

Modernity promised that all human beings would be treated equally. Women took that promise seriously and rebelled against the old order. Women, now liberated and with equal careers, nevertheless find they still desire to have children, but have no basis for claiming that men should assume a responsibility for them. So nature weighs more heavily on women. In the old order they were subordinated and dependent on men; in the new order they are isolated, needing men, but not able to count on them.

Women used to have time to make mince pies and had to fake orgasms. Now we can manage the orgasms, but we have to fake the mince pies. And they call this progress.

I didn't know there were this many math guys," Hale said as they stepped onto the crowded concourse. Kat cleared her throat. "And women," he added. "Math women.

But that's a girl's right—isn't it? To cry sometimes for no reason? Really, when you think about it, that ought to be in the Constitution. Maybe I'll break into the National Archives sometime and write that in. Bex

And, most of all, these women remembered what their mothers and grandmothers had learned from the Romans, the Byzantines, the Turks, and the Mongols: that history almost always repeats itself. And it is almost always written by men.

Sometimes the sexism in this country amazes me, but then I remembered that society's tendency to underestimate women is a Gallagher Girl's greatest weapon...

Así comprendí que las jaulas no siempre estaban fuera, en las amenazas y los chantajes de las personas que tenían el poder. También podían estar dentro, incrustadas en el cuerpo, en el espíritu de todas las mujeres perdidas que asumían mansamente un destino que no habían elegido, sólo porque otros habían decidido que lo que más les convenía era volverse decentes. Pues

Seneca, the Roman moralist, called unchastity "the greatest evil of our time". In light of this pronounced deterioration of marriage, countless Roman women engaged in adulterous sex, and when they became pregnant, they destroyed the evidence of their sexual indiscretions, thus adding to Rome's widespread abortions.

Brought in three or four references to Fallen Women

Siempre nos dijo que había dos tipos de mujer. Aquellas que estaban iluminadas por fuera y aquellas iluminadas por dentro. Las primeras necesitaban el brillo de un diamante para hacerlas resplandecer, pero en el caso de las segundas su belleza reluce a causa de la intensa luz de sus almas.

always told us there were two types of women. Those who are lit from the outside and those who are lit from within. The first needs the shimmer of a diamond to make her sparkle, but for the other, her beauty is illuminated through the sheer light of her soul.

I deal with postpartum feelings by reaching out to mom friends. I became very close with some of the women in my prenatal yoga class.

A sentirla parlare, si giurerebbe che ha un conto in sospeso con le donne." "Altroché! È una di loro che mi ha dato la vita, quando non le avevo chiesto niente.

Lei dice che io detesto le donne perché nessuna mi ha voluto, mentre sono io che non ne ho voluta nessuna, e per la semplice ragione che le detestavo.

Avoir pu inventer une théorie à la fois aussi dingue et aussi cohérente, c'est formidable. J'ai d'abord cru que vous alliez me raconter de banales inepties machistes. Mais je vous ai sous-estimé. Votre explication st énorme et subtile en même temps> il faut simplement exterminer les femmes, n'est-ce pas?

Increased tariffs and a weakened pound would mean higher food prices, hurting the poorest families - and the women trying to make ends meet at the heart of them - the most.

As women, we need to give the right upbringing to our sons so that they respect, protect, and help the weaker sex instead of bullying them.

Anger has been a really big deal for women: how can we express it without feeling that, as the physically weaker sex, we won't get killed. The alpha-woman was burned at the stake and had her head chopped off in days of old.