#omen

Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#religion

When asked why I don't believe in God I reply, quite simply, "vaginas". ↗

— Robert Clark

#humour #religion #women #religion

Woman is the light of God. ↗

— Rumi

#persian #persian-poetry #religion #rumi #rumi-poetry

Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings. ↗

— Cheris Kramarae

#women #women

Women only nag when they feel unappreciated. ↗

— Louis de Bernières

#women

So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays. ↗

— N.H. Kleinbaum

#laziness #morose #tired #very #women

You're a wizard, Harry. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#awesome

No, whether a woman is a concubine to fuck or a damsel to redeem, she's always just some passive object to fulfill a man's purpose. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#purpose

The violence between women is unbelievable...women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding. ↗

— Tori Amos

#women #violence

Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures on color, and taught others the theory of ideas which they had and he had not. In the social sphere these gifted ones are mostly women; they can watch a world which they never saw, and estimate forces of which they have only heard. We call it intuition. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#birth