#women

I doubt if there are many normal women who can resist looking at houses. I believe, in fact, that when a house is up for sale more than half the people who look over it are not prospective buyers, but merely ladies who cannot resist exploring someone else's house. ↗

— Mary Stewart

#women #resistance

Commit yourself to good conduct (adab) both inwardly and outwardly; for whenever one transgresses the bounds of conduct outwardly, he is punished outwardly, and whenver one transgresses the bounds of conduct inwardly, he is punished inwardly. ↗

— Aisha the daughter of Abu Uthman Said B. Ismail Al Hiri of Nishapur.

#sufism #women-in-islam #islam

She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman. ↗

— David Mitchell

#wit #women #appreciation

What do women want? Shoes. ↗

— Mimi Pond

#shoes #women #fashion

…proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#louisa-may-alcott #women #louisa-may-alcott

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women. ↗

— Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

#politics #turk #women #creativity

So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#women #literature

If you women continue to demand your choice to work, you will so upset the economy of this country that the time will come when you will not have a choice. You will have to work. ↗

— Helen B. Andelin

#women #work #economy

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#feminism #humanity #men #women #equality

He - and if there is a God, I am convinced he is a he, because no woman could or would ever fuck things up this badly. ↗

— George Carlin

#feminism #feminist #george-carlin #god #men-and-women