#women

[F]rom my years of understanding ... I happily chose this kind of life in which I yet live [i.e., unmarried], which I assure you for my own part hath hitherto best contented myself and I trust hath been most acceptable to God. From the which if either ambition of high estate offered to me in marriage by the pleasure and appointment of my prince ... or if the eschewing of the danger of my enemies or the avoiding of the peril of death ... could have drawn or dissuaded me from this kind of life, I had not now remained in this estate wherein you see me. But so constant have I always continued in this determination ... yet is it most true that at this day I stand free from any other meaning that either I have had in times past or have at this present. ↗

— Elizabeth I Tudor

#choice #contentment #dignity #empowerment #freedom

Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#love #suicide #women #humor

You cannot win in a fight against women, cause men have a need to make sense ↗

— Chris Rock

#women #humor

Love covers a multitude of sins… ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#louisa-may-alcott #love #sins #love

If given the choice, I’d take five ones over a five-dollar bill, because women prefer men with lots of money.
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— Jarod Kintz

#bizarre #choice #funny #humor #money

Women are controlled by men like a currency of the world. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#power #women-and-men #men

I was in the supermarket the other day, and I met a lady in the aisle where they keep the generic brands. Her name was 'woman. ↗

— Steven Wright

#women #humor

Besides, when I look around me at the men, I feel that God never meant us women to be too particular. ↗

— Marie Jenney Howe

#women #humor

[A]s though mindful of the wife of Lot, who looked back from behind him, thou deliveredst me first to the sacred garments and monastic profession before thou gavest thyself to God. And for that in this one thing thou shouldst have had little trust in me I vehemently grieved and was ashamed. For I (God [knows]) would without hesitation precede or follow thee to the Vulcanian fires according to thy word. For not with me was my heart, but with thee. But now, more than ever, if it be not with thee, it is nowhere. For without thee it cannot anywhere exist. ↗

— Héloïse d'Argenteuil

#celibacy #convent #dignity #following #grief

The thing about girls? Suzanne said. Is we are more content-driven. ↗

— George Saunders

#girls #men-and-women #relationships #men