#omen

It was love, she thought, love that never clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets their phrases, was meant to be spread over the world and become part of human gain. The world by all means should have shared it, could Mr Bankes have said why that woman pleased him so; why the sight of her reading a fairy tale to her boy had upon him precisely the same effect as the solution of a scientific problem. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#love #men-and-women #love

What’s the difference between venerating women for being fuckable and putting them on a purity pedestal? In both cases, women’s worth is contingent upon their ability to please men and to shape their sexual identities around what men want. ↗

— Jessica Valenti

#virginity #women #men

...men endeavor to sink us still lower, merely to render us alluring objects for a moment; and women, intoxicated by the adoration which men, under the influence of their senses, pay them, do not seek to obtain a durable interest in their hearts, or to become the friends of the fellow creatures who find amusement in their society. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#men

Sometimes,' she said, 'it takes a woman to bring out the best in a man. ↗

— Christopher McDougall

#men

Every woman wants a man who can ruin her lipstick and not her mascara. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#relationships #women-and-men #love

Women who disapprove of men - and there's plenty to disapprove of - should remember how we started out, and how far we had to travel. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#women #men

Skupljanje hrane nesumnjivo je bilo na prvom mjestu ženskih dužnosti budući da je taj zadatak održavao pleme na životu. Ni u jednom se trenutku pretpovijesne žene s djecom ili bez nje nisu oslanjale na svoje partnere, lovce, za nabavku hrane. ↗

— Rosalind Miles

#inspirational #life #man #women-s-rights #women-s-strength

Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#inspirational

There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ourselves ↗

— Margaret Mead

#women #inspirational

There's two kinds of women--those you write poems about and those you don't. ↗

— Jeffrey McDaniel

#life #love #poetry #women #writing