#omen

Here are the shadows left behind by a thousand moments, a thousand moods, of needs traced here on the wall by men who are gone. Here is the record of their being here. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#marks-left #moments #shadows #men

It was ironic, but when you scratched the surface, most successful men were working for one thing only--to retire--and the sooner the better. Whereas women were the complete opposite. She had never heard a woman say she was working so she could retire to a desert island or to live on a boat. It was probably, she thought, because most women didn't think they deserved to do nothing. ↗

— Candace Bushnell

#retire #success #women #working #men

Making women the sexual gatekeepers and telling men they just can't help themselves not only drives home the point that women's sexuality is unnatural, but also sets up a disturbing dynamic in which women are expected to be responsible for men's sexual behavior. ↗

— Jessica Valenti

#sex #sexism #sexuality #women #men

Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them. ↗

— Kate Atkinson

#gods #jackson-brodie #men #women #men

Love lasts a long time but burning desire lasts two to three weeks. ↗

— Carla Bruni

#desire #love #men #women #love

I don't love men that love other women. I think more of myself then that. ↗

— Rose The Vampire Diaries

#rose #the-vampire-diaries #women #love

Ariel laughed and now her goose bumps had goose bumps. ↗

— Lisa Mantchev

#laughter #men #men-and-women #men

a wise woman puts a grain of sugar in everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#wisdom #men

Men like women who write, even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#men

Behind almost every woman you ever heard of stands a man who let her down. ↗

— Naomi Bliven

#men