#women

Usually adult males who are unable to make emotional connections with the women they choose to be intimate with are frozen in time, unable to allow themselves to love for fear that the loved one will abandon them. If the first woman they passionately loved, the mother, was not true to her bond of love, then how can they trust that their partner will be true to love. Often in their adult relationships these men act out again and again to test their partner's love. While the rejected adolescent boy imagines that he can no longer receive his mother's love because he is not worthy, as a grown man he may act out in ways that are unworthy and yet demand of the woman in his life that she offer him unconditional love. This testing does not heal the wound of the past, it merely reenacts it, for ultimately the woman will become weary of being tested and end the relationship, thus reenacting the abandonment. This drama confirms for many men that they cannot put their trust in love. They decide that it is better to put their faith in being powerful, in being dominant. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#commitment #love #men #relationships #women

She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#women #mother

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

No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother. ↗

— Margaret Sanger

#motherhood #women #consciousness

To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#pride

Only cowards torture women. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#torture #women #torture

Every woman is a gift when she becomes a daughter, Every woman is beautiful when she becomes a lover, Every woman is special when she becomes a wife, Every woman is a god when she becomes a Mother ↗

— Vivek Thangaswamy

#motherhood #women #beauty

Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality. ↗

— Iris Marion Young

#breastfeeding #breasts #children #feminism #motherhood