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Quotes About Women

For some people, particularly women, marriage-even an unhappy one such as this-is an escape from even greater unhappiness.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Mariam wondered how so many women could suffer the same miserable luck, to have married, all of them, such dreadful men.
~ Khaled Hosseini
A society has no chance of success if it's women are uneducated.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Bunu öÄŸren,kafana iyice sok k?z?m." dedi Nana. "Pusulan?n hep kuzeyi gösteren ibresi gibi, bir erkeÄŸin suçlayan parma?? da daima, mutlaka bir kad?n? gösterir. Her zaman. Bunu hiç unutma, Meryem
~ Khaled Hosseini
I know you're still young, but I want you to understand and learn this now, he said. Marriage can wait, education cannot. You're a very, very bright girl. Truly, you are. You can be anything you want, Laila. I know this about you. And I also know that when this war is over, Afghanistan is going to need you as much as its men, maybe even more. Because a society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated, Laila. No chance.
~ Khaled Hosseini
There are only three real men in this world, Amir, he'd say. He'd count them off on his fingers: America the brash saviour, Britain and Israel. The rest of them- he used to wave his hand and make a phht sound -they're like gossiping old women.
~ Khaled Hosseini
that each snowflake was a sigh heaved by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. That all the sighs drifted up the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke into tiny pieces that fell silently on the people below. As a reminder of how women like us suffer. How quietly we endure all that falls upon us.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Marriage can wait, education cannot... Because a society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated, Laila. No chance.
~ Khaled Hosseini
We'll take care of her, Laila jan," one of the women said with an air of self-importance. Laila had been to funerals before where she had seen women like this, women who relished all things that had to do with death, official consolers who let no one trespass on their self-appointed duties. (p. 136.)
~ Khaled Hosseini
Afghanistan is going to need you as much as its men, maybe even more. Because a society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated, Laila. No chance.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Potevo solo concludere che per alcune persone, in particolare per le donne, il matrimonio, anche infelice come questo, può costituire una fuga da un'infelicità ancora più grande.
~ Khaled Hosseini
It was God's fault, for taunting her as He had. For not granting her what He had granted so many other women. For dangling before her, tantalizingly, what He knew would give her the greatest happiness, then pulling it away.
~ Khaled Hosseini
And I also know that when this war is over, Afghanistan is going to need you as much as its men, maybe even more. Because a society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated, Laila. No chance.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Each snowflake was a sigh heaved by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. All the sighs drifted up in the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke into tiny pieces that fell silently on the people below. As a reminder of how women suffer.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Männer sind nicht kompliziert, sagte er und trommelte mit den Fingern auf seinen Mahagoni-Schreibtisch . Die Genitalien eines Mannes sind wie sein Verstand: simpel, sehr wenige Überraschungen. Aber die Damen sind da schon anders ... nun, der liebe Gott hat sich eben Gedanken gemacht, als er Sie und Ihre Geschlechtsgenossinen erschuf.
~ Khaled Hosseini
women who were killing themselves out of fear of being raped, and of men who, in the name of honor, would kill their wives or daughters if they'd been raped by the militia. Aziza
~ Khaled Hosseini
Porque una sociedad no tiene la menor posibilidad de éxito si sus mujeres no reciben educación.
~ Khaled Hosseini
There are women locked in my womb forever, the memory of their birth. All I can do now is liberate the fruit of their wombs. And it may be too late.
~ Kiana Davenport
She just threatened to throw the next man who shoots at you out the window. Megan is awake. She offered to help. God, Trent, what is it with you and women?
~ Kim Harrison
Men," she said as she took my arm and led me to the brightly lit room. "They forget we need to see the outcome of pain before we willingly put ourselves through it. How else would we suffer nine months to have a beautiful child? We already know we have guts.
~ Kim Harrison
I told you, computers are like women. If you shout at them or ask them to do too many things at once, they shut down and you won't even get a sniff.
~ Kim Harrison
Size 8 women's, and a men's 10.
~ Kim Harrison
Mr. Ray, you yelled at it again, didn't you? I told you, computers are like women. If you shout at them or ask them to do too many things at once, they shut down and you won't even get a sniff.
~ Kim Harrison
Always she had been prone to the rash act. She put it down to something Irish. It seemed to her that Irish women doing rash things was precisely how her people had managed to perpetuate themselves.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson