#women

Women should not feel obliged towards any men for eternity. They earned this privilege by gathering berries, digging roots, picking wild rice, and chewing the skin to make it soft for 999 thousand years, while the men were having fun in the open chasing deer and fighting among themselves. ↗

— Vinko Vrbanic

#having-fun #man-and-woman #men #roots #wild-rice

They did not suspect her for a moment. It did not occur to them that a woman could be dangerous. How foolish they were. Women could do most of the things men did. Who was left in charge when the men were fighting wars, or going on crusades? There were women carpenters, dyers, tanners, bakers and brewers. ↗

— Ken Follett

#women #men

I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters. ↗

— Emily Giffin

#characters #flawed #i #in other words #other

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#backwards #beginning #between #ending #go

I don't want my daughter to be educated. I think women should just be decorative. ↗

— Richard Brautigan

#decorative #educated #i #i think #just

Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power. ↗

— Dan Brown

#been #cultures #goddesses #gods #live

The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#basic #dual #full #given #health

I think women as well as men are concerned about jobs and the economy and spending and, and other issues. They're concerned that when their kids graduate from college they have an economy and they have a future in this country and they, they have the same opportunity that we've had and our grandparents have had. ↗

— Ken Buck

#about #college #concerned #country #economy

Today, our brave military men and women, just as those who have gone before them, stand on alert, securing freedom at home and guarding the innocent abroad. ↗

— Conrad Burns

#alert #before #brave #freedom #gone

The family exists in order to allow women to have children and to have the protection of a male who takes care of them. ↗

— Rocco Buttiglione

#care #children #exists #family #male