#women

I know it's trash: just another story made up to scare wicked females and correct unruly children. But it's all I have. I know I need something else. Something better. Like a story that shows how brazen women can take a good man down. I can hum to that. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#women #love

[The Pigeon had learned something about [women] from his eight sisters, and if over the years he had absorbed only this one thing, it would stand as vindication that a boy does not suffer needlessly from growing up in a house with eight sisters. That thing was that a woman's heart is not bought by the currency of a man's emotion for her. A woman's heart is won over by her own feelings for herself when he just happens to be around ... ↗

— Brigid Pasulka

#women #love

But a man's beauty represents inner, functional truths: his face shows what he can do. And what is that compared to the magnificent uselessness of a woman's face? Mersault was aware of this now, delighting in his vanity and smiling at his secret demons. ↗

— Albert Camus

#men #vanity #women #beauty

She brooded and bit her rich lips: my soul began its first sink into her, deep, heady, lost; like drowning in a witches' brew, Keltic, sorcerous, starlike. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#women #love

I haven't always been a patient man...but something tells me you'd be worth the wait. ↗

— Sam Langley

#cozy-mystery #romantic-suspense #women-s-fiction #love

He was ugly, himself. Weird-ugly. But ugliness in a man doesn't matter, much. Ugliness in a woman is her life. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#women #life

In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders. ↗

— Sheryl Sandberg

#inspirational-quotes #leadership #women-in-business #womens-rights #business

Fortune does favor the bold and you'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try. ↗

— Sheryl Sandberg

#career #inspirational #self-help #women #business

Every woman needs secrets,' her mother said with a smile then, her eyes meeting Sally's in the rearview mirror. 'Remember that when you're old like me, pumpkin, because the world has a way of making a woman's life everyone else's business--you have to dig out a little place that's only yours. ↗

— J. Courtney Sullivan

#women #business

If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on. ↗

— Sheryl Sandberg

#inspirational #leadership #lean-in #motivational #risk-taking