#women

The women ranged in age, but they were all old enough to know that in the currency of friendship, empathy is more valuable than accuracy. ↗

— Erica Bauermeister

#empathy #friendship #women #age

When a lady condescends to apologise, there is no keeping one’s anger. ↗

— Anne Brontë

#apologies #women #anger

I've always considered myself a good person. I've never done anything to purposely hurt anyone. I was in shock that this happened to me, and because it did, I turned into this vengeful person. I've never truly hated anyone, but I was glad when I saw him lying there on the floor. ↗

— Maya Banks

#abused-women #anger #rape #vengeance #anger

A lady never shows her anger, she channels it to further her ends. ↗

— Erik Buchanan

#women #anger

However impatient she might be in the day, however filled with little sudden angers, at night she was all tenderness. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#woman #women #anger

The woman looked out at the madness of the world and dared to hope. Her eyes were burning coals of stars. ↗

— Rivera Sun

#hope #inspirational #mothers #stars #strength

I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#art

I'm afraid, Belle, that being a lady is more than proper clothes. It is an attitude. From your...experience, you may know more of business and politics than ladies are supposed to know. Gentlemen are pleased to think ladies are ornamental, and it is an ill-advised ornament who contradicts her gentleman. ↗

— Donald McCaig

#attitude

Men tend to remember the best things about the women they've loved and to forget the worst, which is why so many men make the same mistakes with women again and again. Women tend to forget the best things about the men they've loved and to remember the worst, which is why so many women become bitter about men. ↗

— James Carlos Blake

#lovers #men #relationships #women #attitude

But I had to think to myself that this was normal, because that was the attitude. I was 19 when I went to see my doctor and I was told it was all in the mind. [Author Hilary Mantel on being told her endometriosis was imagined pain, From Oct 2009 Daily Mail interview] ↗

— Hilary Mantel

#endometriosis #feminism #feminist #health #hilary-mantel