#women

Men are all the same. Novelty amongst themselves displeases and upsets them – but if the novelty is wearing a skirt, they go crazy for it. (Les hommes sont tous les mêmes. L'étrangeté leur déplaît, d'homme à homme, et les blesse ; mais si l'étrangeté porte des jupes, ils en raffolent.) ↗

— Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly

#women #men

Oyster Tom said that they were not talking about people but about men. He agreed that most men remain accountable to themselves only, and that but poorly. He said that the proper chore of a man is to be chargeable for those and that dear to him and that this was something women understood and knew how to do without being told. It was a thing women looked for in their men, and this was why most women lived lives of bottomless sorrow. ↗

— Lance Weller

#men-and-women #women #men

Money brings you the women you want, struggle brings you the women you need. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#money #women #money

As Atwood concludes after a random and informal sampling, men and women differ markedly in the 'scope of their threatenability': 'Why do men feel threatened by woman?' I asked a male friend of mine....'[M]en are bigger, most of the time...and they have on the average a lot more money and power.' 'They're afraid women will laugh at them,' he said. 'Undercut their world view.' Then I asked some women students in a quickie poetry seminar I was giving, 'Why do women feel threatened by men?' 'They're afraid of being killed,' they said'. ↗

— Shuli Barzilai

#humor #men #power #women #men

People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men. ↗

— Gabrielle Zevin

#change

[When asked about Writing Conferences] "You meet people that will change your life. ↗

— Susan Wingate

#fiction-novel #inspiring #reading #women-s-stories #change

Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling. ↗

— Honoré de Balzac

#feeling #sincerity #women #nature

I could have forgiven it if he'd fallen desperately in love with someone and gone off with her. I should have thought that natural. I shouldn't really have blamed him. I should have thought he was led away. Men are so weak, and women are so unscrupulous. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#men #women #love

Hideo," said my mother, in the terrifying way women have of passing without interval from one subject to another because they have them all present in their mind at once, "you haven't found any kind of relationship? ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#mothers #women #relationship

People who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit. ↗

— Georgette Heyer

#humor #women #death