#women

[M]en, though they know full well how much women are worth and how great the benefits we bring them, nonetheless seek to destroy us out of envy for our merits. It's just like the crow, when it produces white nestlings: it is so stricken by envy, knowing how black it is itself, that it kills its own offspring out of pique. ↗

— Moderata Fonte

#dignity #empowerment #envy #feminism #gender

life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#little-women #louisa-may-alcott #love #life

She is a woman of honour and smartness whose wild leaves out luck, always taking risks, and there is something in her brow now, that only she can recognize in a mirror. Ideal and idealistic in that shiny dark hair! People fall in love with her. She is a woman I don’t know well enough to hold in my wing, if writers have wings, to harbour for the rest of my life. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#women #life

Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves. ↗

— George Eliot

#life

I would rather carry around a plastic bag with five thousand Euro inside, than carry around a Louis Vuitton/Gucci/Prada bag with only one hundred Euro inside! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#fashion-quotes #life #living #money #wisdom

Miscommunication is endless. ↗

— J.P. Rattie

#life-lessons #men-and-women #relationships #life

I like Dancing of Indian girls more than my parents’ prayers . Because they dance with love and passion . But my parents just say their prayers because they got used to it . ↗

— Ali Shariati

#death #frienship #girls #god #hope

This is where men and women are different, we can put aside petty competition for relationships - they can't. It interferes. ↗

— Adriana Trigiani

#relationships #women #life

Capel said, "Remember that you're a woman." All too often I forgot that. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#life

It's not being a woman I mind so much," she said slowly. "'Tis the way men seem to always order my life." She leaned earnestly toward him. "Your hand, Papa, has wielded a sword and cradled a child and held power over hundreds of men." She held up her own hand. "This one has far fewer adventures before it. ↗

— Barbara Samuel

#hands #women #women-s-rights #women-s-strength #life