#omen

A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm. ↗

— Jostein Gaarder

#equality #women #women-s-rights #education

Men see objects, women see the relationship between objects. Whether the objects need each other, love each other, match each other. It is an extra dimension of feeling we men are without and one that makes war abhorrent to all real women - and abusrd. I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our fellow-men. Our relationship with our economic and historical situation. And above all our relationship to nothingness. To death. ↗

— John Fowles

#women #death

I sat up in the strange bed fearing it had been a dream, afraid I would never see her again. Not because I wanted anything from her, only her presence. The disappearance of the presence of beauty is the most despairing of events on this time-wheel of ours that rolls onward towards death. ↗

— Roman Payne

#beauty #beauty-in-literature #beauty-in-nature #bed #death

I like the posture, but not the yoga. I like the inebriated morning, but not the opium. I like the flower but not the garden, the moment but not the dream. Quiet, my love. Be still. I am sleeping. ↗

— Roman Payne

#flower #garden #love #moments #morning

Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. During the waning moon, I cradle Homer’s 'Odyssey' as if it were the sweet body of a woman. ↗

— Roman Payne

#classics #dreams #greek #heroism #homer

There are moments to indulge and enjoy, but I always know when it's time to go home and wash my knickers. ↗

— Kate Winslet

#enjoy #go #go home #home #i

I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#had #i #men #relationships #think

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#satisfaction #women #beauty

I guess I just don't have a talent for it, some women just aren't the marrying kind - or anyway, not the permanent marrying kind, and I'm one of them. ↗

— Jane Wyman

#guess #i #just #kind #marrying

At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#dexterity #men #poise #superiority #women