#omen

Why hadn't she just said yes? Then she could have driven alone back to the city [...] and picked up some guy and brought him back home and screwed him and kicked him out and then picked up her daughter at the train the next day like a spy or a con artist, as if the two sides of herself didn't even care to know each other. But it was too late for that. Not just in terms of her ever becoming the kind of woman who knew how to do that kind of thing, without exposing herself as deluded or pathetic or ridiculous. ↗

— Jonathan Dee

#opportunity #passionate-living #women #home

I was more at home in my father's world. People like Mr. Heck Tate did not trap you with innocent questions to make fun of you; even Jem was not highly critical unless you said something stupid. Ladies seemed to live in faint horror of men, seemed unwilling to approve wholeheartedly of them. But I liked them. There was something about them, no matter how much they cussed and drank and gambled and chewed; no matter how undelectable they were, there was something about them that I instinctively liked... they weren't— "Hypocrites, Mrs. Perkins, born hypocrites," Mrs. Merriweather was saying. ↗

— Harper Lee

#women #home

But I’m not the one digging her grave; I didn’t open her hole in the earth when I drove away that night or when I couldn’t make her come with us. My dad dug it years ago; he forced her to lie down in it and kept her there by fear and beatings. And when she tried to get out, he stomped her back in. She has been lying there for twenty-five years. Her muscles have atrophied, her joints have stiffened, and she can’t see anything except him and the tight little space she calls home. I don’t know how she’ll get out; I can tug and pull and yank, but it won’t make any difference. She was right: she’s gotta solve it her own way. ↗

— Swati Avasthi

#domestic-violence #home

If a woman is given only a limited amount of time to spend with the man she loves, she endures the separation by constantly recalling and reliving every moment down to the finest detail. ↗

— Lucy De Barbin and Dary Matera

#break-up #dary-matera #elvis-presley #endure #love

Tris," said tobias. "I love you ↗

— Veronica Roth

#love

When we are young, we make gods and goddesses of one another, then we soon come to realize that we are all merely human and imperfect. ↗

— Elizabeth Aston

#women-and-men #love

I love cars more than women. Why? you ask. Well when a car has a problem you take to the mechanic to sort the problem out, when a women has a problem you won't know until its too late ↗

— Morena Baloyi

#women #love

if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament ↗

— Florynce R. Kennedy

#feminism #men #women #women-s-rights #men

Women would rather talk to other women than to men, even when they would rather talk to a man than to a woman. ↗

— Berta Ruck

#men #women #men

Male dominance in society always means that out of public sight, in the private, ahistorical world of men with women, men are sexually dominating women. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#sexism #violence-against-women #men