#omen

Women have always been spies. ↗

— Harriet Rubin

#women #first-sentence

Men lie to get laid, women lie about orgasms, and hermaphrodites lie to themselves.
 ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#deception #funny #hermaphrodites #humor #lie

In England I am always madam; I arrived too late to ever be a miss. In New York I have only been madamed once, by the doorman at the Carlyle Hotel. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#form-of-address #formality #london #madam #miss

If it’s over, then don’t let the past screw up the rest of your life. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#past #present-moment #life

The only thing you should be faking is confidence. If you don't have it yet, pretend that you do. Pretend you're not nervous, pretend you're not scared, and after a while, the pretend part disappears. ↗

— Patricia V. Davis

#women-s-empowerment #life

She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of servitude that had doubtless made her happy but which, once her husband was dead, did not leave her even the vestiges of her identity. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#identity #marriage #women #love

A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person ↗

— Quintilian

#money

Women who got married got screwed. ↗

— Kaya McLaren

#marriage #women #marriage

I don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for them. It puts ideas in their heads, and women are never at ease with themselves when they have ideas. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#women #men

I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#became #doing #few #few women #first