#omen

Ana never saw the rotten apples littering the ground as she continually reached for the rare golden apple on the tree. Ana had stepped in a lot of rotten apples in her lifetime. She should have learned by now. ↗

— Travis Luedke

#hard-lessons #hopeless-romantic #optimism #romantic

A woman's destiny, they say, is not fulfilled until she holds in her arms her own little book. ↗

— Caroline Mytinger

#destiny #girl #woman #women #destiny

The most cursory examination of even the most progressive organs of information reveals a curious inability to recognize women as newsmakers, unless they are young or married to a head of state or naked or pregnant by some triumph of technology or perpetrators or victims of some hideous crime or any combiniation of the above. Women's issues are often disguised as people issues, unless they are relegated to the women's pages which amazingly still suvive. Senior figures are all male; even the few women who are deemed worthy of obituaries are shown in images from their youth, as if the last fourty years of their lives have been without achievement of any kind. If you analyse the by-lines in your morning paper, you will see that the senior editorial staff are all older men, supported by a rabble of junior females, the infinitely replacesable 'hackettes'. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#gender #sexism #women #men

Be present in all things and thankful for all things. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#live-in-the-moment #present

For me, a woman who is absorbed in her work, who does not care about gaining one’s favour, strong yet subtle at the same time, is essentially more seductive. The more she hides and abandons her femininity, the more it emerges from the very heart of her existence. ↗

— Yohji Yamamoto

#seduction

Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#women #vanity

It's definitely difficult being a woman and growing up a girl. When you're graceful, people say you lack personality; when you're serene, people say you're boring; when you're confident, people say you're arrogant; when you're feminine, people say you're too girly; and when you climb trees, people say you're too much of a tomboy! As a woman, you really need to develop a very strong sense of self and the earlier you can do that, the better! You have to be all the things that you are, without allowing other people's ignorance change you! I realized that they don't know what grace is, they can't identify serenity, they have inferiority complexes, they are incapable of being feminine, and they don't know how to climb trees! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#inspirational-life #inspirational-quotes #know-thyself #life-and-living #living-life

Learn to say no to demands, requests, invitations, and activities that leave you with no time for yourself. Until I learned to say no, and mean it, I was always overloaded by stress. You may feel guilty and selfish at first for guarding your down- time, but you’ll soon find that you are a much nicer, more present, more productive person in each instance you do choose to say yes. ↗

— Holly Mosier

#mindfulness #opt-out #peace-of-mind #present-moment #purpose

Over a lifetime of dealing with difficult women, I have learned it is often better to give into their demands immediately. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#demons

Ann Boleyn...a Renaissance Audrey Hepburn in a little black dress. ↗

— Joann Spears

#audrey-hepburn #historical-fiction #tudors #women-s-humor #historical-fiction