#women

I don't deny that impulse drew us together, but while physical gratification began and ended it for you, in making love, dumbo here——' she jerked a thumb at her chest '—was also demonstrating that she cared.' His tongue moistened his lips. 'You're very up-front, aren't you?' 'You mean none of your other rejects have ever looked you in the eye and complained?' Sian queried. She might have made things easy last night, but she refused to make anything easy for him now. 'I suppose you'd prefer it if I shrugged my shoulders, muttered something about it being nice while it lasted, and filed the experience away under lessons learned? Well, sorry, but for me, and for most women if they're honest, going to bed with someone is a darn sight more complicated than that! ↗

— Elizabeth Oldfield

#experience

I think a balanced team of men and women makes better decisions. That's one of the reasons why I was prepared to run for deputy leader. ↗

— Harriet Harman

#better #decisions #deputy #i #i think

In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves. ↗

— Harriet Harman

#equal #men #prepared #regard #running

Is this the situation in the modern Conservative party? That women should be seen and not heard? ↗

— Harriet Harman

#conservative party #heard #modern #party #seen

Well, if you look at the programme that we're offering, I think that is a future which is fair for women as well as men. We're still heavily outnumbered - we're still four to one in parliament - but we are pioneers! We are forging a new path. ↗

— Harriet Harman

#forging #four #future #heavily #i

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men. ↗

— George Eliot

#almighty #foolish #god #god almighty #i

I feel like there are women who are genuinely born to be mothers, and women who are born to be aunties, and women who really probably not should be allowed near children. The tragedy that happens is when any one of those women ends up in the wrong category. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#any #born #born to be #category #children

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women. ↗

— Voltaire

#sentiment #women #worth

In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection. ↗

— Carol Gilligan

#between #care #connection #different #ethic

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#blood #body #cause #dared #her