“He 'upena nae; 'a'ohe i'a hei 'ole.
It is a fine-meshed net; there is no fish that it does not fail to catch.
Said of a woman who never fails to attract the opposite sex.”
Source: Nā Wahine: Hawaiian Proverbs and Inspirational Quotes Celebrating Women in Hawai'i
“Learning from my tūtū and aunty meant being very disciplined; there was no fooling around. You had to watch, listen and follow. There wasn't a whole lot of in-depth explanation of what you were doing. You were expected to know it.
Hōkūlani Hold-Padilla”
Source: Nā Wahine: Hawaiian Proverbs and Inspirational Quotes Celebrating Women in Hawai'i
“In the end, a religion can be judged by these simple measures: how it treats its women, how it cares for the helpless, and how it respects other religions.”
Source: The Other Wife: A Novel in Verse
“Even in modern-day, there weren't many men that genuinely respected women, let alone men from over a hundred years ago.”
Source: [歌剧魅影]魔鬼的美人
“My hunger roused me. In the depths of the sea, I drew upon my greed, my insatiable ambition. I cried out to my shadow self, my truest self, and reached for her through her iron imprisonment. I understood now why I was called a perversion. It was unnatural for a woman to have this kind of ambition, and yet I existed. My existence was my birthright, and it would be my justification.”
Source: The Night Ends with Fire
“Transcendent, magical romance happens when you’re one hundred percent present for each other as #supersoul lovers.”
“Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social media platforms incentivize and facilitate relational aggression. Their openness and willingness to share emotions with other girls espouses them to depression and other disorders. The twisted incentive structures of social media reward the most extreme presentations of symptoms.”
Source: The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
“Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of public failure from everything you do. And, as you’d expect by this point in the story, socially prescribed perfectionism began rising, across the Anglosphere nations, in the early 2010s.”
Source: The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
“Because it was depravity, for a woman to desire more than her lot in life. To aspire to more than safety, protection. To aspire to power.”
Source: The Night Ends with Fire
“She swallowed hard. 'They would never let a woman hold on to power.”
Source: The Night Ends with Fire