#omen

Make him love you,” Ruthless Me whispered. “Make it so he can’t live without you. The devil you know.” I felt her growing inside me, bringing with her the insane idea that I actually wielded power with Caleb. ↗

— C.J. Roberts

#devil #power #seduction #sexy #women

The future is greatly different than your life now, the actions that you take must also be greatly different. You cannot do the same thing and get something different. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#future #inspirational #motivational #present-moment #inspirational

..by honouring the demands of our bleeding, our blood gives us something in return. The crazed bitch from irritation hell recedes. In her place arises a side of ourselves with whom we may not-at first- be comfortable. She is a vulnerable, highly perceptive genius who can ponder a given issue and take her world by storm. When we're quiet and bleeding, we stumble upon solutions to dilemmas that've been bugging us all month. Inspiration hits and moments of epiphany rumba 'cross de tundra of our senses. In this mode of existence one does not feel antipathy towards a bodily ritual that so profoundly and reinforces our cuntpower. ↗

— Inga Muscio

#life #menstruation #women #inspirational

Any rapist would feel pretty dang upset to see his car packed full with rotting fish heads and limburger cheese...Also, if the 542 women responsible were crowded onto the street where he lived, insisting that he move himself and his stinky car to another locale. Nobody likes to be pelted with 2060 bloody tampons. ↗

— Inga Muscio

#inspirational #rape #society #women #inspirational

I teach the world how to treat me by the way I treat myself, and the way I present myself. ↗

— Kristine Gasbarre

#life-lessons #women #inspirational

I harbor ill feelings toward a society, and a clergy, that allows marriage partners to split over the smallest incompatibility, where divorce comes in a multitude of flavors, like Baskin Robbins ice cream, where men and women can blame one another and everything except themselves for matrimony's mess. They look for externals over which they have no control and, fingering them, take no responsibility. ↗

— Robert Dykstra

#marriage #men #men-and-women #psychology #women

Why would men want to do without women? We adore women.” “Because they serve you,” she grumbled. “No.Because they complement us. And I mean complement with an e,not an i. Women are our other halves. Men need women. ↗

— Susan Mallery

#marriage

how lacking in intuition men could be in persuading themselves that mending some stranger's socks, and attending to his comfort, could content a woman... ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#women #marriage

…marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#louisa-may-alcott #marriage #marriage

What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#courtship #discord #disharmony #empowerment #gender