#women

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#among #called #especially #fact #gossip

The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#based #bonding #brotherhood #common #cooperation

We have received credible reports that show a clear and consistent pattern: entire villages are looted, burned down and sometimes bombed. Large numbers of civilians have been killed and scores of women and children have been abducted, raped and tortured. ↗

— Jan Egeland

#bombed #burned #children #civilians #clear

I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that are to be preferred. The social institutions work better, women have a better position in society and the food is another thing. ↗

— Andrew Eldritch

#another #being #better #continent #england

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out. ↗

— George Eliot

#function #go #home #husbands #i

But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

#black #brought #could #devilish #doubt

If women are breadwinners and men bring home the bacon, why do people complain about having no dough? I'm confused. Also hungry. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#hunger #men #metaphors #twitter #women

Women, can't live with them, can't live without them. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#live #them #without

I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I'm writing about women, I think I'm writing about one woman, one person. And I try to imagine what she is like, and endow her with a lot of my own thoughts and history. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#approach #characters #endow #female #female characters

I've always had that gratitude that I had the opportunity to pursue my potential. So I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver. We can make the world a better place, one butt at a time. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#always #better #better place #chance #deliver