“... it appears that the authors of rules for women tended to focus on clothing in a more rigid manner that authors of rules for men.”
Source: The Habit: A History of the Clothing of Catholic Nuns
“У ході експерименту, коли вродливий молодий чоловік ішов вулицею та запитував жінок-перехожих, чи не хочуть вони переспати з ним, 100% жінок, до яких він підходив, ухилялися від його загравань. Однак, коли поруч із чоловіком стояла «подруга» і хвалила його, відзначаючи його турботливість і чуйність, показник відмов знизився до 80%. У протилежному експерименті, де молода жінка стояла сама й запитувала чоловіків-перехожих, чи погодилися б вони переспати з нею, про результати ви можете здогадатися самі: 80% сказали «так», не чекаючи рекомендації від інших чоловіків.”
Source: A Brief History of Love: What Attracts Us, How We Fall in Love and Why Biology Screws it All Up
“Stop thinking of yourself as a victim. You were a target that is now no longer being hit.”
“Головна мова кохання для чоловіків - це дотик, тимчасом як для жінок - це емпатія. Для того, щоб розслабитися й налагодити звʼязок, чоловікам потрібні дотики, а жінкам насамперед - слова і співпереживання. Звичайно, причиною цього є тестостерон та естроген.”
Source: A Brief History of Love: What Attracts Us, How We Fall in Love and Why Biology Screws it All Up
“It seemed a woman at any age -- thirteen, forty-one, you name it -- felt she was facing a delicate time in her life.”
Source: Killing Commendatore
“Awareness was a woman’s best friend, and a lack of it can lead to an array of brutal deaths.”
“... she would never understand how it felt to be a woman aware of her own beauty, walking on the street and holding her head low.”
Source: Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise
“When girls were married they suddenly became important and relevant. Not as important as the older women or –God forbid – the men, but still higher up on the food chain than unmarried girls.”
Source: A Mouth Full of Salt
“Each woman is a solitaire-
Precious, glittering and soulful.
She has risen from the ashes,
She has built her house of warmth
Brick by brick.
Treasure her, admire her, cherish her,
And you shall see magic!”
“One of the most dangerous classes in the world,' said he, 'is the drifting and friendless woman. She is the most harmless and often the most useful of mortals, but she is the inevitable inciter of crime in others. She is helpless. She is migratory. She has sufficient means to take her from country to country and from hotel to hotel. She is lost, as often as not, in a maze of obscure pensions and boarding-houses. She is a stray chicken in a world of foxes. When she is gobbled up she is hardly missed. I much fear that some evil has come to the Lady Frances Carfax.'
I was relieved at this sudden descent from the general to the particular.”
Source: His Last Bow