#woman

I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman. ↗

— Graham Greene

#away #becomes #bribe #changes #effect

Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run? ↗

— Germaine Greer

#ever #far #fast #go #got

I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#any #because #been #damn #fall

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#because #her #his #jealous #lack

Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce laws. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#divorce #family #indissoluble #laws #made

I was so afraid that the athletes wouldn't talk to me because I'm a woman. ↗

— Lisa Guerrero

#athletes #because #i #me #talk

Cathy was the first widely syndicated humor strip created by a woman. The strip was pretty revolutionary at the time not only because it starred a female, but also because it was so emotionally honest about all the conflicting feelings many women had in 1976. ↗

— Cathy Guisewite

#also #because #cathy #conflicting #created

A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. ↗

— Sacha Guitry

#ever #hands #her #his #man

I love bringing roses to a woman when she least expects it. ↗

— Esai Morales

#bringing #expects #i #i love #least

No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#befall #entrenched #fate #man #negation