- “Everything grows from darkness. It is the place that molds thought into form. It is the place that calls forth our creativity. It is where I have found my home.” ― Carrie Schmitt, The Story of Every Flower
- “A woman can’t do anything about her appearance. Either she’s pretty or she isn’t. But her character is quite another matter.” ― Julie Garwood, The Prize
- “Love is supposed to lift you up, not hold you down. It is supposed to push you forward, not hold you back.” ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
- “How I wish more women can be heard.Can be skilled and educated.Can be empowered and given opportunities.Can be respected and be credited.Can be loved and valued.Can have their choices and opinion .Can have their privacy and freedom.Cannot be policed nor by their looks, clothes or behavior.Can take accountability and responsibility for their actions.Can own up to their decision.To all women out there.Happy International Women’s DayWe love and appreciate you.” ― De philosopher DJ Kyos
- “In youth, it was a way I had,To do my best to please.And change, with every passing ladTo suit his theories.But now I know the things I knowAnd do the things I do,And if you do not like me so,To hell, my love, with you.” ― Dorothy Parker, The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker
- “Everyone knows that part of the spirit descends to the afterworld, while part of it remains with the family, but we have a special belief about the spirit of a young woman who has died before her marriage that goes contrary to this. She comes back to prey upon other unmarried girls–not to scare them but to take them to the afterworld with her so she might have company.” ― Lisa See
- “In short, Mrs. Pontellier was beginning to realize her position in the universe as a human being, and to recognize her relations as an individual to the world within and about her. This may seem like a ponderous weight of wisdom to descend upon the soul of a young woman of twenty-eight—perhaps more wisdom than the Holy Ghost is usually pleased to vouchsafe to any woman. But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!” ― Kate Chopin, The Awakening & Other Short Stories
- “A soulful woman loves a man not for who he is, but for what he may become.” ― Abhaidev, That Thing About You
- “That happens a lot with Shakespeare. The women go after what they want; the men wind up suckered into things.” ― Gayle Forman, Just One Day
- “Be careful…she’s a mosquito with butterfly wings” ― Uncle Bo from F.U.C.K.
- “Even with fasting and prayers you still need wisdom. At the root of every great accomplishment is wisdom. In all your getting get wisdom first.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- “Did I, do I, admire the artist for claiming her pain is worthy of art, or did I, do I, find the act of aestheticizing also trivializing, or in fact is that feeling, that impulse to call the art trivializing, a way to conceal the true feeling, guiltier, that her art is vulgar, that it is indulgent, because she is her own subject? Because she elevates herself as subject? The woman as object is less vulgar than the woman as subject. The woman as object is art and the man who objectifies her an artist. The woman as subject, well. Just a narcissistic bitch, isn’t she? Not that I believe this. Not that I do not believe this.” ― Miranda Popkey, Topics of Conversation
- “Her sad eyes, they were full of wonderful stories.” ― Jordan Hoechlin
- “No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn’t in submission to God!” ― T D Jakes
- “The very best way that you can help yourself is to develop and sustain a positive attitude. The way you think and feel about everything will make all the difference to your experience.” ― Caroline Carr, Menopause: The Guide for Real Women
- “Women are not there to spike testosterone.” ― Abhijit Naskar
- “Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell.” ― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker
- “What does success mean to you?’Those are moments when I feel like I’m contributing something but I’m also receiving something. Reciprocity feels like success. (Melissa Harris-Perry)” ― Grace Bonney, In the Company of Women: Inspiration and Advice from over 100 Makers, Artists, and Entrepreneurs
- “And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see daughters who grow impatient when their mothers talk in Chinese, who think they are stupid when they explain things in fractured English. They see that joy and luck do not mean the same to their daughters, that to these closed American-born minds “joy luck” is not a word, it does not exist. They see daughters who will bear grandchildren born without any connecting hope passed from generation to generation.” ― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club
- “You’re not talking to her, Maggie Jones said. You and Raymond don’t talk like you should to that girl. Women want to hear some conversation in the evening. We don’t think that’s too much to ask. We’re willing to put up with a lot from you men, but in the evening we want to hear some talking. We want to have a little conversation in the house.” ― Kent Haruf, Plainsong
- “but dear, there is sun after rain, love after pain.” ― Ventum
- “No black woman writer in this culture can write “too much”. Indeed, no woman writer can write “too much”…No woman has ever written enough.” ― bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work
- “When the heart is beautiful, its light shines through the eyes, vocal tones and actions of its master. True beauty is not in the body, but in the heart of the beholder.” ― Suzy Kassem
- “It’s strange to think how Bardia went to and fro daily between Queen and wife, well assured he did his duty by both (as he did) and without a thought, doubtless, of the pother he made between them. This is what it is to be a man. The one sin the gods never forgive us is that of being born women.” ― C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
- “the universe is always delivering to us what we need for a spiritual awakening” ― Erin Fall Haskell
- “She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance – a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.” ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
- “The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new.” ― Karl Lagerfeld
- “Both porn and religion distort a person’s perspectives on women.” ― Jesse Dangerously
- “Unless you are willing to examine your personal, philosophical, and emotional issues, you cannot fully comprehend the application of Sun Tzu’s ideas.” ― Chin-Nung Cu
- “Life was not easy, nor was it happy, but she did not expect life to be easy, and, if it was not happy, that was woman’s lot. It was a man’s world, and she accepted it as such. The man owned the property, and the woman managed it. The man took credit for the management, and the woman praised his cleverness. The man roared like a bull when a splinter was in his finger, and the woman muffled the moans of childbirth, lest she disturb him. Men were rough of speech and often drunk. Women ignored the lapses of speech and put the drunkards to bed without bitter words. Men were rude and outspoken, women were always kind, gracious and forgiving.” ― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind