#omen

it is madness in al women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead into miry wilds whence there is no extrication. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#pride #women-s-strength #life

Some days some times are remembered by me, in life’s all moments they are cherished by me ↗

— Amit Abraham

#days #moments #remembered #time #life

A man's whole life / may be a metaphor - but a woman's lot / is symbol. ↗

— Lorna Dee Cervantes

#men #women #life

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better. ↗

— George Balanchine

#better #equal #first #god #made

(Georgie) Two hundred years later and it's exactly the same thing. You want to spend every single moment with your children and still have a fulfilling life at work. ↗

— Nancy Woodruff

#motherhood #women #life

Being tame is what we're taught: ... put the crayons back, stay in line, don't talk too loud, keep your knees together, nice girls don't... As you might know, nice girls DO, and they like to feel wild and alive. Being tame feels safe, being wild, unsafe. Yet safety is an illusion anyway. We are not in control. No matter how dry and tame and nice we live, we will die. And we will suffer along the way. Living wild is its own reward. ↗

— S.A.R.K.

#life #nice-girls #safety #tame #wild

There comes a moment in life when one must acknowledge that you just can't keep looking back into your past for reasons to keep someone in your present and future. Regardless of how much looking that cruel reality in the eye hurts...memories can't be enough. ↗

— Eiry Nieves

#love #memories #past #present-moment #relationships

There's a cover for every pot, but I've never seen so many mismatched pots and covers in all my life. - Ellen Wasserfeldman, from Notes from Ellen Wasserfeldman by Alisa Dana Steinberg ↗

— Alisa Steinberg

#men-and-women #relationships #life

This doll-guy situation is an extreme of what I deal with in everyday life, where men believe that what they want I want, and they project that on to me and then blame me, curse me, when I don’t respond the way they’ve fantasized, like it’s some personal attack on them, like they’re entitled to something. Doll guy and dog guy and rape guy, the dangerous ones, they just go a step further and take it anyway. Then they blame you and the way you look for what they did. What’s worse is that a lot of the time, society blames you, too. ↗

— Taylor Stevens

#rape #violence #violence-against-women #life

One moment of true happiness was worth all the moments of pain. (Jessica) ↗

— Shannon A. Thompson

#happiness #life #love #moments #pain