#women

It seems to Henry, as he takes his seat in his usual middle pew, that women are far braver than men ↗

— Elizabeth Strout

#women #men

A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life. ↗

— Louise Erdrich

#next-life #otherworld #underworld #women #men

In elke man schuilt de vrouw die hij graag aan zijn zijde heeft. ↗

— Ignace Dermaux

#vrouw #women-and-men #men

It's a shame for a woman's history to be all about men-first boys, then other boys, then men, men, men. It reminds me of the way our school history textbooks were all about wars and elections, one war after another, with the dull periods of peace skimmed over when they happened. ↗

— Elizabeth Kostova

#growing-up #history #men-and-women #men

In its various forms, so far as we know them, Love seems always to have a deep significance and a most practical importance to us little mortals. In one form, as the mere semi-conscious Sex-love, which runs through creation and is common to the lowest animals and plants, it appears as a kind of organic basis for the unity of all creatures; in another, as the love of the mother for her offspring—which may also be termed a passion—it seems to pledge itself to the care and guardianship of the future race; in another, as the marriage of man and woman, it becomes the very foundation of human society. And so we can hardly believe that in its homogenic form, with which we are here concerned, it has not also a deep significance, and social uses and functions which will become clearer to us, the more we study it. ↗

— Edward Carpenter

#animals #homosexuality #human-sexuality #love #marriage

Gratë kanë mbi të gjitha aftësinë që të besojnë edhe në të pamundurën. Burrat besojnë se ata realizojnë gjëra të pamundura. ↗

— Christine Grän

#women #men

The war consciousness is purposely cultivated to guide the male away from the natural, healthy balances between masculine and feminine energies, and toward more unbalanced and detached psychologies. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#war #women-and-men #men

The worst of Bath was the number of its plain women. He did not mean to say there were not pretty women, but the number of the plain was out of all proportion. He had frequently observed, as he walked, that one handsome face would be followed by thirty, or five-and-thirty frights; and once, as he had stood in a shop on Bond street, he had counted eighty-seven women go by, without there being a tolerable face among them. ... But still, there certainly were a dreadful multitude of ugly women in Bath; and as for the men! they were infinitely worse. Such scarecrows as the streets were full of! ↗

— Jane Austen

#plain #women #men

Men can never have the true power they were endowed with by creation, until they respect and protect the women and children of the world. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#protect #respect #men

Besides, women were better suited to bear sorrow than men. They lived on their emotions. They only thought of their emotions. When they took lovers, it was merely to have some one with whom they could have scenes. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#men