#women

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle." I really hate this expression. I bet fish would totally want bicycles. ↗

— Meg Cabot

#men-and-women #men

After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her. ↗

— Mark Twain

#marriage #women #love

She is the crescendo, the final, astonishing work of God. Woman. In one last flourish creation comes to a finish with Eve. She is the Master's finishing touch. ↗

— John Eldredge

#love #marriage #romance #women #love

The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready. ↗

— Nancy E. Turner

#motherhood #wife #women #marriage

Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different! ↗

— Angela Carter

#women #marriage

There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?" "Are you a young lady?" "I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will be treated. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#expectations #gender #honesty #independence #influence

the great lack of parity between husbands and wives has always been spawned by the disproportionate degree of self-sacrifice that women are willing to make on behalf of those they love. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#wives #women #love

I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand -- they only. Know this at last. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#conscience #courtship #dignity #empowerment #feminism

No one had told her this would happen, that her girlishness would give way to the solid force of wifehood, motherhood. The choices available were all imperfect. If you chose to be with someone, you often wanted to be alone. If you chose to be alone, you often felt the unbearable need for another body - not necessarily for sex, but just to rub your foot, to sit across the table, to drop his things around the room in a way that was maddening but still served as a reminder that he was there. ↗

— Meg Wolitzer

#relationships #women #marriage

A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is not desired on the part of the woman and she has no response, it should not take place. This is an act of prostitution and is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding. ↗

— Margaret Sanger

#sex #women #marriage