“We are born of women, learn about life from women, and learn to love through women
- yet we violate our women, despise our women, harm our women.
Isn't it time we stood alongside our women, fought fervently for our women?”
“The sorry truth is that, whatever one's natural inclination and personality type, when it comes to an abysmally unpleasant chore, it is the woman and not the man who ends up taking care of it in 99 per cent of cases.”
Source: A Game for All the Family
“Les choses non dites pourrissent à l'intérieur de nous.”
Source: L'arte della gioia
“I have memories to give away before I meet God — so you can have them, Iris from the ether. Are you listening? Nobody else will write them down.”
Source: Hex
“The women had spent their careers trying not to think about being women, hoping they would be seen as scientists. But as the first or only in so many settings, they felt they had to live up to a higher standard.”
Source: The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science
“Even in literature -- a possible resort in the nineteenth century for for such intelligent and creative women as the Brontes and George Eliot -- there were no female role models for her to follow,”
Source: Mad Madge: The Extraordinary Life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, the First Woman to Live by Her Pen
“In the forty years from 1600 to 1640, when Margaret reached the age of seventeen, only forty-two books by women had been printed, and of these only seven wore literary works.”
Source: Mad Madge: The Extraordinary Life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, the First Woman to Live by Her Pen
“Behind every successful woman is someone who pissed her off.”
Source: Quickie Stickies: 100 Pick-Me-Ups for When You're Feeling Unglued
“I love competitive women. I do not mean scream at the referee kind of competitive.
I mean you versus you kind of competitive.”
“As for methods of prayer, all are good, as long as they are sincere.”
Source: Les Misérables