#women

[Picasso] loved...women for the sexual, carnivorous impulses they aroused in him. Mixing blood and sperm, he exalted women in his paintings, imposed his violence on them, and sentenced them to death once he felt their mystery had been discharged and the sexual power they instilled in him had dulled... Women were his prey. He was the Minotaur. These were bloody, indecent bullfights from which he always emerged the dazzling victor. ↗

— Marina Picasso

#sex #violence #women #art

You cant beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you dont even try to. ↗

— William Faulkner

#women #trouble

Nature is woman's best friend,' she [Yasmina] often said. 'If you're having troubles, you just swim in the water, stretch out in a field, or look up at the stars. That's how a woman cures her fears'. ↗

— Fatema Mernissi

#women #dreams

I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#insult

I'm learning not to hope for what I can't control... ↗

— Leila Meacham

#women-s-strength #historical

Commit yourself to good conduct (adab) both inwardly and outwardly; for whenever one transgresses the bounds of conduct outwardly, he is punished outwardly, and whenver one transgresses the bounds of conduct inwardly, he is punished inwardly. ↗

— Aisha the daughter of Abu Uthman Said B. Ismail Al Hiri of Nishapur.

#sufism #women-in-islam #islam

She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman. ↗

— David Mitchell

#wit #women #appreciation

A woman with opinions had better develop a thick skin and a loud voice. ↗

— Anya Seton

#development

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women. ↗

— Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

#politics #turk #women #creativity

Hate to sound sleazy, but tease me, I don't want it if it's that easy ↗