#men

How many times would he disappoint you in a day if you were married to him, Ursula wondered? ↗

— Kate Atkinson

#marriage #marriage

Something bad was about to happen. My wife was being clever again. ↗

— Gillian Flynn

#humor #marriage #women-s-strength #marriage

As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#silence #men

Unless she married soon, Bond thought for the hundredth time, or had a lover, her cool air of authority might easily become spinsterish and she would join the army of women who had married a career. ↗

— Ian Fleming

#careers #marriage #women #marriage

Author says the ineffectual U.S. Navy of two centuries ago lost two thirds as many men to duelist bullets as to sea hazards. ↗

— Joseph Wheelan

#pride #men

When you meet a man who is broken, pick him up and carry him. When you meet a woman who’s broken, put her all into your arms. Cause we don’t know where we come from … we don’t know where we are. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#identity #men #women #men

The great question that has never been answered and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is: What does a woman want? ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#men #women #men

Think about it this way: While being married is about becoming the WIFE you are meant to be, being single allows you to focus on becoming the WOMAN you were born to be. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#being-married #being-single #finding-yourself #loving-yourself #marriage

There is no other organ quite like the uterus. If men had such an organ they would brag about it. So should we ↗

— Ina May Gaskin

#midwifery #poppin-out-babies #men

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#empowerment #feminism #gender #hypocrisy #inequality