#oman

Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#ask #certain #decide #folly #fun

To muse for long unwearied hours with my attention riveted to some frivolous device upon the margin, or in the typography of a book — to become absorbed for the better part of a summer's day in a quaint shadow falling aslant upon the tapestry, or upon the floor — to lose myself for an entire night in watching the steady flame of a lamp, or the embers of a fire — to dream away whole days over the perfume of a flower — to repeat monotonously some common word, until the sound, by dint of frequent repetition, ceased to convey any idea whatever to the mind — to lose all sense of motion or physical existence in a state of absolute bodily quiescence long and obstinately persevered in — Such were a few of the most common and least pernicious vagaries induced by a condition of the mental faculties, not, indeed, altogether unparalleled, but certainly bidding defiance to any thing like analysis or explanation. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#monomania #obsession #dreams

I was associated with a woman who I was involved with and had a relationship with. She asked for money. I felt as though I was being blackmailed or there was some sort of extortion. ↗

— David Boreanaz

#associated #being #felt #had #i

There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me. ↗

— John Erskine

#beautiful woman #beauty #between #charm #charming

Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#education #home #into #man #needs

Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it. ↗

— Evan Esar

#does #done #hasn #housework #nobody

It's like a woman's birthright to knit. It's primal. It's timeless. You don't need electricity to knit. You can do it with a candle, girls! ↗

— Tracey Ullman

#candle #electricity #knit #like #need

I'm into all that sappy stuff - a surprise picnic, nice dinner, or traveling. I'm kind of an old romantic. ↗

— Will Estes

#dinner #i #into #kind #nice

I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman. ↗

— David Bowie

#i #image #korean #many #ny times

I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I'm writing about women, I think I'm writing about one woman, one person. And I try to imagine what she is like, and endow her with a lot of my own thoughts and history. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#approach #characters #endow #female #female characters