#omen

He remembers which sister I like least and asks how she is doing. (lines 9-11 of the poem 'Divorce') ↗

— Carrie Etter

#marriage #poetry #women #marriage

Were kisses all the joys in bed,/One woman would another wed. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#marriage #sonnets #women #marriage

An old friend of mine named Jean fell through a tear in her marriage and landed on her feet. ↗

— Catherine McNamara

#marriage

She thought too that women didn't know what to do with themselves these days which could turn them into harridans. Hardly a female friend she knew wasn't miserable. Either mind dumb with children, or in the married condition married to an earnest toiler, or lonely unmarried in their successful career. ↗

— J.P. Donleavy

#women #marriage

No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it. ↗

— Elizabeth Peters

#men #women #men

In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#gender-stereotypes #men #women #men

I hate men who are afraid of women's strength. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#feminism #woman #women-s-strenth #love

Men learn to love the woman they are attracted to. Women learn to become attracted to the man they fall in love with. ↗

— Woody Allen

#men-and-women #love

Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#men #woman #women #men

Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#dorian-gray #marriage #men #relationships #women