#omen

Great minds may have cold hearts. Form but no color. It is an incompleteness. And so they are afraid of any woman who both thinks and feels deeply. ↗

— Sena Jeter Naslund

#feminist #women #wife

I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show. ↗

— Vanessa Marcil

#curves #get #i #look #more

Every moment of your life that is not a complete nightmare is happiness. ↗

— Merrill Markoe

#every #happiness #life #moment #nightmare

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have. ↗

— Florence Nightingale

#bed #english #excited #farm #i

Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#clothing #creativity #designer #evolution #fashion

It seemed pathetic and terrible to me and it still does, that men and women work eight hours a day at jobs that bring them no joy, no reward save a few dollars. ↗

— Hortense Odlum

#day #does #dollars #eight #few

There's a girl, Dad." He smiled a bit. "A girl." "She kinda hates me, and I kinda..." "Love her?" "I don't know. I don't think so. I mean...how do you know?" His smile grew wider. "When you're talking about her with your old dad because you don't know what else to do. ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#travis-maddox #beauty

Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades. ↗

— Tillie Olsen

#reality #right #say #surface #women

If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine--why is there resentment at a female-oriented art? Nobody asks The Tale of Genji to be masculine! Women certainly learn a lot from books oriented toward a masculine world. Why is not the reverse also true? Or are men really so afraid of women's creativity (because they are not themselves at the center of creation, cannot bear children) that a woman writer of genius evokes murderous rage, must be brushed aside with a sneer as 'irrelevant'? ↗

— May Sarton

#femininity #gender #masculine-feminine #women #writers

Women are so unforgiving of themselves. We don't recognize our own beauty because we're too busy comparing ourselves to other people. ↗

— Kelly Osbourne

#because #busy #comparing #other #our