#omen

Vampires, like virgins or priests, are things that women believe in. We must never fail to humor them in such matters. ↗

— Brian McNaughton

#vampires #women #humor

Over time, I have realized that at 20, you can wear too much makeup and people assume you're a slut. Do it at 40 and they think you're a sea witch. ↗

— Melodie Ramone

#women #humor

The manlier you are, the harder it is to understand what a woman wants: there is not a hint of female brain in you. ↗

— Criss Jami

#anatomy #biological #biology #brain #cognition

Some women have a huge problem being on the recieving end of rejection from a man yet they wanna do all the rejecting but they don't want a man to reject them and I think it's hypocritical that some women attack men for having preferences because women reject men for every reason you can imagine. ↗

— Unknown

#men-and-women #rejection #imagination

When reading dies, the imagination soon follows. ↗

— Ronnie Ray Jenkins

#mystery #romance #suspense #women-s-fiction #imagination

I see. I imagined that he was cast out of all decent society". "If society were really decent, he would have been ↗

— George R. Gissing

#victorian-era #women-s-issues #imagination

A girl is different. They want things. They need things on a regular schedule. Why, a girl's got purposes you and me can't even imagine. They got ideas in their heads you and me can't even suppose. ↗

— Kent Haruf

#women #imagination

Life with Ilona was invariably lived on two levels, or rather in two simultaneous and parallel directions. On the one hand, your feet were always on the ground, you were always intelligently but not obsessively alert to what each day offered in response to the routine question of surviving. On the other hand, imagination and unbounded fantasy suggested a spontaneous and unexpected sequence of scenarios that were always aimed at the radical subversion of every law ever written or established. This was a permanent, organic, rigorous subversion that never permitted travel on the beaten path, the road preferred by most people, the traditional patterns that offer protection to those whom Ilona, without emphasis or pride but without any concessions either, would call "the others. ↗

— Álvaro Mutis

#life #women #imagination

Men are jealous of every woman, even when they don’t have the slightest interest in her themselves. ↗

— Jan Neruda

#men #relationships #women #jealousy

If there's one thing I learned, it's that nobody is here forever. You have to live for the moment, each and every day . . . the here, the now. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#live-life #life