#omen

Men didn't understand that you couldn't let yourself be consumed with passion when there were so many people needing your attention, when there was so much work to do. Men didn't understand that there was nothing big enough to exempt you from your obligations, which began as soon as the sun rose over the paper company and ended only after you'd finished the day's chores and fell exhausted into sleep against the background noise of I-94. ↗

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

#men #obligations #passion #women #work

Bless the ladies and their charming inconsistency! They demand to be treated like men, but they react like women. ↗

— Elizabeth Peters

#gender-relations #women #men

If it is as evil to do lechery as the Bible and the Lord Himself tell us, then who is the more blameworthy: the one who instigates it, or the one who doesn't so much do it as suffer what men do to her? You know very well that it is the male who does it, and whoever says otherwise is wrong and is lying through his teeth, unless he has no teeth -- and would to God he hadn't. ↗

— Anonymous

#double-standards #gender #immorality #inequality #men

Just as there are 'real men', there are indeed real women". ~R. Alan Woods [2012] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#women-and-men #men

I suppose I do have a suitor, but I'm not really used to him yet. He's terribly charming and he plies me with delicious meals, but I sometimes think I prefer suitors in books rather than right in front of me. ↗

— Mary Ann Shaffer

#men

Men, Grace learned, seemed to think women were all frustrated nurses. ↗

— Alexandra Potter

#men

It seems to Henry, as he takes his seat in his usual middle pew, that women are far braver than men ↗

— Elizabeth Strout

#women #men

A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life. ↗

— Louise Erdrich

#next-life #otherworld #underworld #women #men

In elke man schuilt de vrouw die hij graag aan zijn zijde heeft. ↗

— Ignace Dermaux

#vrouw #women-and-men #men

It's a shame for a woman's history to be all about men-first boys, then other boys, then men, men, men. It reminds me of the way our school history textbooks were all about wars and elections, one war after another, with the dull periods of peace skimmed over when they happened. ↗

— Elizabeth Kostova

#growing-up #history #men-and-women #men