#omen

That was when I first observed a phenomenon I now call the "New York Slide": you offer your words to try to communicate and connect with someone, but your words just hit a brick wall the person has erected to ward off human contact- the words slide down it and roll away. ↗

— Kelly Cutrone

#fashion #fashion-women #human-behavior #life-lessons #new-york

Harriet loved her new persona. As Maxine, she was courageous and accomplished, a woman of sophistication equally at home in Cannes or on the Indian subcontinent. As Maxine she didn't walk, she strode; she did not merely see, but beheld. The very air she breathed was bracing. Here was a conqueror of worlds. ↗

— Diane Hammond

#women #courage

Life for both sexes — and I looked at them, shouldering their way along the pavement — is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. It calls for gigantic courage and strength. More than anything, perhaps, creatures of illusion as we are, it calls for confidence in oneself. Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradle. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#courage

If you boys... you men can do what has to be done when you'd rather do almost anything else, why do you think I will do less? Or Egwene ↗

— Robert Jordan

#duty #women #courage

Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his real girlfriend. ↗

— Amy Sedaris

#affairs #dating #jewelry #life #love

Fortunately, among werewolf women, the word "bitch" is not offensive. I was having a lot of fun with that. "Hey there, bitches!" I called as I came through the door. "What are my favorite bitches up to today? ↗

— Molly Harper

#bitches #humor #vampires #werewolf #werewolves

A man fishes for two reasons: he’s either sport fishing or fishing to eat, which means he’s either going to try to catch the biggest fish he can, take a picture of it, admire it with his buddies and toss it back to sea, or he’s going to take that fish on home, scale it, fillet it, toss it in some cornmeal, fry it up, and put it on his plate. This, I think, is a great analogy for how men seek out women. ↗

— Steve Harvey

#men #relationship #sex #women #dating

There will never be a good time, financially, to get married, unless you're Shaq or Ray Romano. But somehow people manage. If your man is using money as an excuse not to marry you, it's your relationship that's insecure, not his bank account. ↗

— Greg Behrendt

#he-s-just-not-that-into-you #love #men-and-women #dating

I’ve said over and over again jokingly that the only way a woman can truly be completely satisfied is to get herself four different men—an old one, an ugly one, a Mandingo, and a gay guy. Now the four of them combined? They got you covered. ↗

— Steve Harvey

#dating-advice #men #women #dating

What's your definition of dating? Lengthy social time spent with a woman during which we're not actively fucking ↗

— Sylvia Day

#men-and-women #relationships #sex #dating