#women

Every woman wants a man who can ruin her lipstick and not her mascara. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#relationships #women-and-men #love

Women who disapprove of men - and there's plenty to disapprove of - should remember how we started out, and how far we had to travel. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#women #men

Women without men, I realized then, are totally different creatures. ↗

— Shashi Deshpande

#women #men

The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. But Jean Rhys, in her biography, is read as borderline; Anaïs Nin is borderline; Djuna is borderline; etc. etc. Borderline personality disorder being an overwhelmingly gendered diagnosis. I write in Heroines: “The charges of borderline personality disorder are the same charges against girls writing literature, I realize—too emotional, too impulsive, no boundaries. ↗

— Kate Zambreno

#women-writers #men

You know about the Mother Goddess - the first female god, a fat woman with a lion on one side and a child between her legs. She was the first god of humankind. Do you know why than ancient people of Anatolia chose her as their god? Because men were not aware of their roles as impregnators. They thought that it was the wind, the rain, the rivers, in short, nature, that impregnated women. And this was not at all a strange idea at the time. People viewed themselves as part of nature. They thought birth was magic, a miracle. ↗

— Ahmet Ümit

#hittites #humanity #nature #women #men

Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones. ↗

— Louise Erdrich

#men #men-and-women #routine #love

Skupljanje hrane nesumnjivo je bilo na prvom mjestu ženskih dužnosti budući da je taj zadatak održavao pleme na životu. Ni u jednom se trenutku pretpovijesne žene s djecom ili bez nje nisu oslanjale na svoje partnere, lovce, za nabavku hrane. ↗

— Rosalind Miles

#inspirational #life #man #women-s-rights #women-s-strength

The authentic love of a man switches on the inner radiance of a woman, making her more attractive and noticed by other men. ↗

— C. Nzingha Smith

#relationship-quotes #women-s-inspirational #inspirational

Darling, when things go wrong in life, you lift your chin, put on a ravishing smile, mix yourself a little cocktail... ↗

— Sophie Kinsella

#inspirational #lifestyle #women-s-strength #inspirational

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself ~ all that runs over will be yours. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#advice #love #women #inspirational