“Medusa wasn't always a monster, Helen of Troy wasn't always an adulterer, Pandora wasn't ever a villain.”
Source: Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
“A woman is like an ocean; beautiful to look at but dangerous to cross.”
“A teenager doesn't know she's still a child. A teenager feels like an adult, I suppose primarily because her outside, her flesh and her face, her body, her size, her width and height, look like - and can function like, get pregnant like, can party like, get arrested like, and die just like - an adult. She thinks she's making decisions as a grown-up with a fully developed brain and, in a case like mine, a fully developed faith. She's wrong about both of those beliefs. But chances are, she will not realize what a child she was until, as a full-grown adult, she knows and loves a teenager.”
Source: All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir
“Some of the bravest women in our lives have been peasant women, Annie. They’re why we’re here. Even if they go unsung.”
Source: Furysong
“Woman is not like a flower
Woman is not like Moon
Woman is not like Stars
Woman is not like Ocean or River
She is very much like you,
Human being with soul, feelings, emotions, choices, decisions, self-respect
so respect her in that way”
Source: "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
“The poets and writers are trying to understand the reality of woman, but up to this day they have not understood the hidden secrets of her heart, because they look upon her from behind the sexual veil and see nothing but externals; they look upon her through the magnifying glass of hatefulness and find nothing except weakness and submission”
Source: The Broken Wings
“In pickleball, you're supposed to stay out of the kitchen. I guess it's not a sport for women.”
Source: Eggs, they’re not just for breakfast
“History is full of great men who were too humble to allow themselves to be called great men. So instead, they pretended to be women.”
Source: Eggs, they’re not just for breakfast
“I can take care of myself. He doesn't scare me, Elizabeth; he disgusts me. There's a difference."
Elizabeth knew this feeling exactly. She bent down and put her arms around Harriet. Despite their friendship, the two women rarely touched.
"There's nothing I wouldn't do for you," Elizabeth said, pulling her close. "You know that, don't you?"
Harriet, surprised, looked up at Elizabeth, tears forming. "Well me, too. Ditto." Then the older woman finally pulled away. "I'll be okay," Harriet promised, wiping her face. "Just let it go."
But Elizabeth was not the type of person who let things go.”
Source: Lessons in Chemistry
“I think I have a lot going for me as far as dating. I have a high IQ, I'm 6'3", and on May 23rd I'll be Forklift Certified. That's right, I'll soon be qualified to transport stacked pallets, and I know that's the first thing women look for in a potential partner.”
Source: Eggs, they’re not just for breakfast