#oman

I have the worst ear for criticism; even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle who says she doesn't like blue. ↗

— Cecil Beaton

#back #blue #circle #created #criticism

In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#capable #either #fear #feeling #heterosexuality

Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#broken #caresses #complete #demands #kind

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#get #say #woman #writer

For a woman to deny the necessity of true love in her life would be to deny herself, and her creator. ↗

— Dwain K. White Sr.

#inspirational #love #nonfiction #romance #dreams

The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor - all conductors are white - ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car. ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

#ask #atlanta #back #car #conductor

They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were to be carried out in the streets. That's like when they tell you after you buy your VHS and you rent movies they tell you not to copy the movies. ↗

— Afrika Bambaataa

#allow #black #buy #carried #considered

In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

#between #boxing #contest #days #fights

I have no private life at all. I am a hunted woman. I can't take a step without being questioned and surrounded. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#being #hunted #i #i am #life

Now, if there was one woman in the world who didn't need publicity, who always had too much publicity, it was me. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#had #me #much #need #now