“I've spoken of the patient Peter who was obsessively forced to make conquests with women, to seduce and then to abandon them, until he was at last able to experience how he himself had repeatedly been abandoned by his mother.”
Source: The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
“Why, why, her mind stuttered, I believe women could manage everything in the world without men’s help--except having babies, and God knows, no woman in her right mind would have babies if she could help it.”
Source: Gone with the wind
“Your actions will always speak volumes louder than your words ever will! - (G Swiss)”
“It simply isn’t a woman’s nature to be silent for prolonged periods of time.”
Source: In Bed with a Highlander
“By 1991, for instance, epidemiologist surverys in populations had revealed that high cholesterol was NOT associated with heart disease or premature death in women. Rather, the higher the cholesterol in women, the longer they lived, a finding that was so consistent across populations and surveys that it prompted an editorial in the American Heart Associations journal, Circulation: "We are coming to realize," the three authors, led by UC San Francisco epidemiologist Stephen Hulley, wrote, "the the results of cardiovascular research in men, which represents the great majority of the effort thus far, may not apply to women.”
Source: Rethinking Diabetes: What Science Reveals about Diet, Insulin and Successful Treatments
“Rubenesque: the word for masterpiece curves. Screw you, unsalted rice cakes.”
Source: Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty
“God, this is why I can never live with women. They go off into corners and think, maybe it’s this, maybe it’s that. Ask, woman. Ask.”
Source: To Marry a Prince
“She will outstrip all praise and make it halt behind her.”
Source: The Tempest
“What can you answer? Now be careful, don’t arouse my spite, Or with my slipper I’ll take you napping,
faces slapping
Left and right.”
Source: Lysistrata
“When our father does the things he needs to do in the world, we understand it is his due. If our mother does the things she needs to do in the world, we feel she had abandoned us. It is a miracle she survives our mixed messages, written in society's most poisoned ink. It is enough to drive her mad.”
Source: The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography