#women

In the end, he had to admit, he didn't really understand her. He didn't understand women. He didn't understand men. He didn't even understand children very well. All he really understood, he thought, was himself and the rest of the universe. Neither anything like completely, of course, but both well enough to know that what remained to be discovered would make sense; it would fit in, it could all be gradually and patiently fitted together a bit at a time, like an infinite jigsaw puzzle, with no straight edges to look for and no end in sight, but one in which there was always going to be somewhere for absolutely any piece to fit. ↗

— Iain Banks

#puzzle #women #men

When I say that we must establish values with originate in sisterhood, I mean to say that we must not accept, even for a moment, male notions of what non-violence is. These notions have never condemned the systematic violence against us. The men who hold these notions have never renounced the male behaviours, privileges, values and conceits which are in and of themselves acts of violence against us. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#liberation #non-violence #oppression #radical #violence

man can not live on chocolate .... but women can ↗

— Hannah

#men #women #men

A man may be said to love most truly that woman in whose company he can feel drowsy in comfort. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#love

Women eat ice-cream, men toast marshmallows. ↗

— Dianna Hardy

#ice-cream #male-bonding #marshmallows #men-and-women #sorrow

Men - not just babies like you, but old men, too - they always need to have a woman tell them the truth. Les hommes, ils sont impossibles. ↗

— James Baldwin

#women-and-men #women-s-strength #men

I'm sure you could have. Fending off unwanted male attention is a skill every attractive woman must acquire. But you're also a lady who was reluctant to cause a scene.. (Hammond Cross) ↗

— Sandra Brown

#sandra-brown #the-alibi #women #love

The one thing you should never do to a woman, whether you make love to her or fuck her, is apologise straight after. ↗

— Dianna Hardy

#apology #couples #couples-fights #fucking #make-love

Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses are women. I guess this is because the boys don't think that gender applies to them: that it's a subject for girls. ↗

— Louise Brown

#because #birmingham #courses #dozens #every

When I met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always ↗

— Rita Rudner

#men