#omen

Guilt is a feeble emotion. It surrenders too easily ↗

— Deborah McKinlay

#relationships #women-s-literary #family

Certain women because of their female power and seductiveness could bring destruction to a family. ↗

— Margaret Way

#power #seduction #women #family

In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less. ↗

— Carrie Chapman Catt

#adjustment #demand #equal #less #new

The women in your family have never lost touch with one another. Death is a path we take to meet on the other side. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

#matrilineage #women #death

‎Does anyone truly understand females? ...Their behavior is opposite of everything in the natural order and flies in the face of logic. ↗

— Mary Lydon Simonsen

#females #human #lydon #mary #mr-darcy

Officially, the New Testament church at an early stage took seriously their responsibility for widows who lacked family or other resources. The office of deacon was instituted initially to address this pressing need. ↗

— Carolyn Custis James

#biblical #church #deacon #widows #women

The timing of this sudden interest in the plight of Iraqi women cannot be overemphasized. For decades, many Iraqi women activists in the US and UK had tried to raise awareness about the systematic abuse of human and women's rights under Saddam Hussein, the atrocities linked to the Anfal campaign against the Kurds, and the impact of economic sanctions on women and families. . . . 'We wrote so many letters and we organized many events. . . . They did not want to know. They were just not interested. It was only in the run-up to the [2003] invasion that the governments started to care about the suffering of Iraqi women. ↗

— Nadje Al-Ali

#iraq #state #uk #us #women

Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#clothing #designer #dress #fashion #karl-lagerfeld

Part calico choir girl...........and part satin dance hall doll, with amber eyes and a dash of hellcat red in her hair --- the kind of woman that a man wants in his bedroom when he's sick.............and in his bed when he's not. ↗

— Linda Bloodworth-Thomason

#designing-women #mary-jo-shively #tv-show #design

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking. ↗

— Elayne Boosler

#country #depressed #different #different way #eat