#women

Two kinds of women in this world: those who have breast cancer and those who're scared to death of getting it. Articles (men) skip on the way to the sports section? I clip out and keep in a drawer next to my bed. ↗

— S. Epatha Mekerson

#health #women #death

Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it. ↗

— George Carlin

#equality #feminism #humanism #humor #inspirational

Elizabeth Cady read the nation's great Declaration, and it bothered her. All men are created equal, it said. But what about women? ↗

— Joy Hakim

#women-s-history #equality

The door wasn’t closing. Shiloh’s spirit opened up as she considered the possibilities. ↗

— Stacy Hawkins Adams

#fiction #identity #personal-growth #women-s-fiction #faith

Women may fall when there's no strength in men. Act II ↗

— William Shakespeare

#marriage #men #wisdom #women #faith

She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#women #zealousness #humor

I know it's trash: just another story made up to scare wicked females and correct unruly children. But it's all I have. I know I need something else. Something better. Like a story that shows how brazen women can take a good man down. I can hum to that. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#women #love

[The Pigeon had learned something about [women] from his eight sisters, and if over the years he had absorbed only this one thing, it would stand as vindication that a boy does not suffer needlessly from growing up in a house with eight sisters. That thing was that a woman's heart is not bought by the currency of a man's emotion for her. A woman's heart is won over by her own feelings for herself when he just happens to be around ... ↗

— Brigid Pasulka

#women #love

I haven't always been a patient man...but something tells me you'd be worth the wait. ↗

— Sam Langley

#cozy-mystery #romantic-suspense #women-s-fiction #love

He was ugly, himself. Weird-ugly. But ugliness in a man doesn't matter, much. Ugliness in a woman is her life. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#women #life