#women

Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A woman's body was like that. If you watched it carefully enough you could see how it moved to the rhythm of the world, the deep rhythm, the music below the music, the truth below the truth. He believed in this hidden truth the way other men believed in God or love, believed that truth was in fact always hidden, that the apparent, the overt, was invariably a kind of lie. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#love

Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks. ↗

— William Faulkner

#men #women #men

Mrs. MacAndrew shared the common opinion of her sex that a man is always a brute to leave a woman who is attached to him, but that a woman is much to blame if he does. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#sex #women #men

Civilized Man says: I am Self, I am Master, all the rest is other--outside, below, underneath, subservient. I own, I use, I explore, I exploit, I control. What I do is what matters. What I want is what matter is for. I am that I am, and the rest is women & wilderness, to be used as I see fit. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#patriarchy #wilderness #women #men

The more we see ourselves as a vibrant, successful, inspiring person who boldly declares and manifests her vision, the more we become just that. ↗

— Kristi Bowman

#empowerment #empowerment-of-women #inspirational #self-development #self-esteem

He didn't want to puff her up. Puffed-up women are one of the original sources of trouble in the world. If anyone knew that, it was he. He counted it as one of his duties to mankind to keep women from puffing themselves up, though it had been a most monumental duty in his own marriage. A job requiring a hero. It was one of those things that God, being male, questioned you about before you were let into heaven, and he was proud to say that he hadn't neglected it. ↗

— Judith Merkle Riley

#women #marriage

Terri had already gotten her panties into a bunch just from one little phone call, so he knew coming at her too much too fast would be more trouble than it was worth. He couldn’t exactly beat her into submission, not right away anyway. Although he did enjoy seeing her get all riled up. Nothing tugged at a man’s heartstrings like a pair of mascara smeared eyes. Randy from Spring Cleaning-- Coming Summer 2012 ↗

— Brandi Salazar

#dark #husband #marriage #stalker #women-s-fiction

...but once more I say do as you please, for we women are born to this burden of being obedient to our husbands, though they be blockheads ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

#marriage #women #marriage

‎At the end when you cut to the bone,we're all essentially the same; we are women of great expectations ↗

— Inji Amr

#women #inspirational

Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new. ↗

— J. Courtney Sullivan

#leave #marriage #men-and-women #marriage