#oman

I'm a modern woman in the sense of I take care of myself, I'm fiercely independent, and I'm really ambitious. Yet I have these old-school thoughts in my mind. ↗

— Eva Mendes

#care #fiercely #i #independent #mind

I think as a young actress, it's very rare that you read something where you're not either 'the girl' or there to serve some romantic purpose in a male dominated cast. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#cast #dominated #either #girl #i

I broke my nose in gym when a ball hit me. I took a girl to her debutante ball the next week wearing a tux and a big, honking bandage. Not the romantic night she had in mind. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

#bandage #big #broke #girl #gym

The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity. ↗

— Kate Millett

#affords #circumstance #concept #emotional #exploit

What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it. ↗

— Kate Millett

#hell #how #i #know #movement

I know all about you. You're the people waiting on the shoreline with the warm towels and the hot chocolate after the woman swims the English Channel. ↗

— Gwen Moore

#after #channel #chocolate #english #hot

When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#actually #always #anger #angry #around

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#forehead #had #heels #high #high heels

They danced again, and when the assembly closed, parted, on the lady’s side at least, with a strong inclination for continuing the acquaintance. Whether she thought of him so much while she drank her warm wine and water and prepared herself for bed as to dream of him when there, cannot be ascertained; but I hope it was no more than in a light slumber, or a morning doze at most, for if it be true, as a celebrated writer has maintained, that no young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman’s love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentlemen before the gentleman is first known to have dreamed of her. ↗

— Jane Austen

#jane-austen #love #northanger-abbey #romance #dreams

The man who respects a woman does not know what else to do with her. ↗

— John Norman

#else #her #know #man #respects