#omen

Though her soul requires seeing, the culture around her requires sightlessness. Though her soul wishes to speak its truth, she is pressured to be silent. ↗

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

#women #freedom

No man can take your freedom from you. They can limit your mobility, but that's about all they can do ↗

— Danielle Steel

#golden #moments #freedom

Ah, lust. It makes us forget anything we want to. The greatest relaxant, the greatest stimulant. ↗

— James Lusarde

#erotica #freedom #living #living-life-to-the-fullest #love

He had heard her say, so many times, that a society that approved of making abortion illegal was a society that approved of violence against women; that making abortion illegal was simply a sanctimonious, self-righteous form of violence against women- it was just another way of legalizing violence against women, Nurse Caroline would say. ↗

— John Irving

#freedom-of-choice #mysogyny #womens-rights #freedom

Then I will speak upon the ashes. ↗

— Sojourner Truth

#freedom #women-s-rights #freedom

[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin. ↗

— Elizabeth I Tudor

#dignity #freedom #good-governance #government #independence

The only deep emotion I occasionally felt in these affairs was gratitude, when all was going well and I was left, not only peace, but freedom to come and go--never kinder and gayer with one woman than when I had just left another's bed, as if I extended to all others the debt I had just contracted toward one of them. ↗

— Albert Camus

#sex #women #freedom

We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#art #clothes #clothing #designer #fashion

O friend, for the morrow let us not worry This moment we have now, let us not hurry When our time comes, we shall not tarry With seven thousand-year-olds, our burden carry ↗

— Omar Khayyám

#inspirational #life #moments #friendship

As they embrace, she kisses him full on the mouth. And suddenly sticks her tongue right in. She has done this before, often. It’s one of those drunken long shots which just might, at least theoretically, once in ten thousand tries, throw a relationship right out of its orbit and send it whizzing off on another. Do women ever stop trying? No. But, because they never stop, they learn to be good losers. ↗

— Christopher Isherwood

#losing #relationships #women #friendship