#women

[A]s people are beginning to see that the sexes form in a certain sense a continuous group, so they are beginning to see that Love and Friendship which have been so often set apart from each other as things distinct are in reality closely related and shade imperceptibly into each other. Women are beginning to demand that Marriage shall mean Friendship as well as Passion; that a comrade-like Equality shall be included in the word Love; and it is recognised that from the one extreme of a 'Platonic' friendship (generally between persons of the same sex) up to the other extreme of passionate love (generally between persons of opposite sex) no hard and fast line can at any point be drawn effectively separating the different kinds of attachment. We know, in fact, of Friendships so romantic in sentiment that they verge into love; we know of Loves so intellectual and spiritual that they hardly dwell in the sphere of Passion. ↗

— Edward Carpenter

#friendship #gender-equality #love #marriage #men

I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult. ↗

— Ken Follett

#characters #difficult #female #female characters #great

I know how gratifying it is not only to work in film but to be acknowledged by peers; producing '9 to 5' was an opportunity that I valued precisely because it's so rarely in the hands of women. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#because #film #gratifying #hands #how

Men gossip for just as long and about the same subjects as women, but tend to talk more about themselves. ↗

— Kate Fox

#gossip #just #long #men #more

I've traveled around the world and made love with many satisfied women. So I decided to share my story. ↗

— Rick Fox

#decided #i #love #made #many

My recipes aren't geared towards women; my books are marketed towards women because women are the biggest market for weight loss, weight management and weight maintenance and for cooking. ↗

— Bethenny Frankel

#biggest #books #cooking #geared #loss

I sought Ben Affleck because I needed an everyman for this role. Ben appeals to men and women. He gives you a sense of intelligence, the notion of a guy who can think on his feet. ↗

— John Frankenheimer

#appeals #because #ben #ben affleck #everyman

Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger. ↗

— Nancy Friday

#anger #because #been #cut #face

We need to see men and women as equal partners, but it's hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy! ↗

— Betty Friedan

#equal #forty-five #hard #hepburn #i

I was at a meeting two years ago in Beijing, and I passed a bunch of women who were marching in a protest. Their signs were probably saying something I wouldn't have agreed with at all. But I was so glad to see women marching. And it's happening all over the world. ↗

— Betty Friedan

#agreed #beijing #bunch #glad #happening