#wome

Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#imagination #proust #women #beauty

Womanhood is a wonderful thing. In womankind we find the mothers of the race.There is no man so great, nor none sunk so low, but once he lay a helpless, innocent babe in a woman's arms and was dependent on her love and care for his existence. It is woman who rocks the cradle of the world and holds the first affections of mankind. She possesses a power beyond that of a king on his throne. ...Womanhood stands for all that is pure and clean and noble. She who does not make the world better for having lived in it has failed to be all that a woman should be. ↗

— Mabel Hale

#mothers #women #beauty

I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#art

My heart does not desire what my eyes does not admire. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#beauty #desire #heart #women #beauty

How beautiful that is!" said Laurie softly, for he was quick to see and feel beauty of any kind. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#love #women #beauty

I'll tell ye, Sassenach; if ever I feel the need to change my manner of employment, I dinna think I'll take up attacking women - it's a bloody hard way to make a living. ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

#women #change

...to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humour, to make them visible so that can not be ravaged in the dark without great consequence. ↗

— Eve Ensler

#women #change

People forget the punk thing was really good for women. It motivated them to pick up a guitar rather than be a chanteuse. It allowed us to be aggressive. ↗

— Siouxsie Sioux

#allowed #forget #good #guitar #motivated

As I saw it, all my mother's life, my father held her down, like lead strapped to her ankles. She was buoyant by nature; she wanted to travel, go to the theater, go to museums. What he wanted was to lie on the couch with the Times over his face, so that death, when it came, wouldn't seem a significant change. ↗

— Louise Glück

#men-and-women #parents #relationships #change

You can tell people of the need to struggle, but when the powerless start to see that they really can make a difference, nothing can quench the fire. ↗

— Leymah Gbowee

#power #struggle #women #change