#omen

Leave it to women to be cryptic rather than straightforward ↗

— Kaye Dacus

#women #humor

Powerful women always interpret hostility as unrequited love. ↗

— Tina Brown

#love #power #women #love

Hell-on-skis, can you hear me? This is flying cupcake. ↗

— Joss Stirling

#cupcake #inside-joke #love #moment #skies

There will always be a down but also always an up, your moods depends on wich of the two you pay the most attention to. ↗

— Laurins

#down #happy #life #live-in-the-moment #love

Ah, when love dies, women lose two and a half inches in height. ↗

— M.C. Beaton

#love #women #love

Handsome is as handsome does ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#handsomeness #manners #behavior

When anesthesia was developed, it was for many decades routinely withheld from women giving birth, since women were "supposed" to suffer. One of the few societies to take a contrary view was the Huichol tribe in Mexico. The Huichol believed that the pain of childbirth should be shared, so the mother would hold on to a string tied to her husband's testicles. With each painful contraction, she would give the string a yank so that the man could share the burden. Surely if such a mechanism were more widespread, injuries in childbirth would garner more attention. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#empathy #women #women-s-rights #oppression

Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxi pad commercial, windex commercial - you'd think all women do is clean and bleed. ↗

— Gillian Flynn

#women #marketing

Some of the New York Radical Women shortly afterward formed WITCH (Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell) and its members, dressed as witches, appeared suddenly on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. A leaflet put out by WITCH in New York said: WITCH lives and smiles in every woman. She is the free part of each of us, beneath the shy smiles, the acquiescence to absurd male domination, the make-up or flesh-suffocating clothes our sick society demands. There is no "joining" WITCH. If you are a woman and dare to look within yourself, you are a WITCH. You make your own rules. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#women-s-liberation #liberalism

In theory momentos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here. How inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here is something else I could never afford to see. ↗

— Joan Didion

#momentos #nostalgia #nostalgia