#omen

You cannot do what's important now for you if your mind cannot accept what is happening in this present moment. ↗

— John Kuypers

#inspirational-quotes #present-moment #self-improvement #inspirational

...but once more I say do as you please, for we women are born to this burden of being obedient to our husbands, though they be blockheads ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

#marriage #women #marriage

They lay silently. She was staring at something across the room. She was making him feel uncomfortable. 'It wouldn't work. It's the attraction of opposites,' he said. We're not opposites.' I don't mean just you and me. Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave. ↗

— James Salter

#relationships #women #love

Most men claim to desire driven, independent and confident women. Yet when confronted with such a creature reverence often evolves into resent. For just like women, men need to be needed. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#independence #love #man #modern-society #relationships

That's it? That's your big goodbye?" Eve asked. Claire looked at Eve mystified. "I think I need guy CliffNotes." "Guys aren't deep enough to need CliffNotes." "What were you waiting for, flowery poetry?" Shane snorted. "I hugged. I'm done. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#morganville-vampires #men

Woman's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#men #women #men

Men trust God by risking rejection. Women trust God by waiting. ↗

— Carolyn McCulley

#men #trust #waiting #women #men

Guys always think tears are a sign of weakness. They’re a sign of FRUSTRATION. She’s only crying so she won’t cut your throat in your sleep. So make nice and be grateful. ↗

— Donna Barr

#crying #frustration #men-women #tears #weakness

It has been the experience of a lifetime to work with Catherine Middleton to create her wedding dress, and I have enjoyed every moment of it. It was such an incredible honor to be asked, and I am so proud of what we and the Alexander McQueen team have created. ↗

— Sarah Burton

#am #asked #been #catherine #create

[I]f you seek in every way to minimise my firm beliefs by your anti-feminist attacks, please recall that a small dagger or knife point can pierce a great, bulging sack and that a small fly can attack a great lion and speedily put him to flight. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#beliefs #clichés #convictions #dignity #double-standards