#oman

How many more times would I have embraced him that night, how many more times would I have kissed him, if I had known the name of that stranger lover who was already in Montreal, who had already bought his stadium ticket from a scalper for the 5,000 tomorrow. That implacable lover who was going to turn Billy's eyes away from me forever. ↗

— Patricia Nell Warren

#foreshadowing #gay #life #love #romance

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#adventure #always #dreamer #fellow #gentleman

I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#after #book #could #expect #female

The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#been #before #done #never #point

I used to joke for years that I was a black man. I adopted the black culture, the black race. I married a black woman, and I had black kids. I always considered myself a 'brother.' ↗

— Tommy Chong

#always #black #brother #considered #culture

I can't decide whether I'm a good girl wrapped up in a bad girl, or if I'm a bad girl wrapped up in a good girl. And that's how I know I'm a woman! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#good-and-bad #humor #humour #life #life-and-living

If a man or a woman puts in an honest day's work, they should to be able to earn a living wage. ↗

— Richard J. Codey

#day #earn #honest #living #living wage

A man usually falls in love with a woman who asks the kinds of questions he is able to answer. ↗

— Ronald Colman

#answer #asks #falls #kinds #love

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#brim #cannot #fill #her #herself

A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#bookstore #buys #clears #every #him