“Every time Iraq began to unravel, it was women who worked the hardest to stitch it back together.”
Source: Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World
“I never chose the rose because it was soft. Men mistake it for a symbol of fragility, of perfume and petals, of dainty femininity wrapped in velvet and silk. They forget the thorns. They always do. That’s why it’s perfect and that’s why it’s mine. The rose doesn’t beg to be touched. It dares, and if you reach for it without reverence, it bleeds you.”
Source: The Heir of Ash and Thunder
“Why are women always taught to tolerate, but men are never taught to control?
Why is it my fault when they cross the line? Why is it always me who has to bite my tongue? Why is it always a woman’s job to stay calm when a man misbehaves? Why do I have to be the one to smile, to forgive?”
Source: To Hell With You
“We can accept and embrace our pasts as part of the path that shaped who we are now.”
Source: The Spiritual Girl's Guide to Dating: Your Enlightened Path to Love, Sex, and Soulmates
“Men want us not to think. But why? Because we're empty and stupid, that's what they tell us--but what if that's not the truth at all?...What if it's the opposite? Something more combustible? What if men designed the world this way, not because they think we're nothing, but because they sense great power in us and want to press it down or chain it up?”
Source: The Palace of Eros
“Not rape, not theft---not something that cowards would rather hide from. Yell fire, the stranger had instructed her. A threat to all. If you are attacked, yell about a fire.”
“She needed space, silence, and someone to wash their own damn cup. ☕”
Source: MENTALWOMEN: "When life gaslights you long enough, you either go quiet — or go mental. Sometimes both."
“He must remember that women were curious creatures, addicted to eccentricities of vision, allowing emotional influences to deflect the light of reason. There was no prevailing with them by hard common sense alone. It provoked their hostility.”
Source: The Black Swan
“they all manipulate.
the better the woman,
the smoother her game —
a gift bestowed
on their kind
by the gods.”
Source: the void and the feed
“That reminds me of the old joke about the female soul. Question, Have women a soul? Answer, Yes. Question, Why? Answer, In order that they may be damned. Very witty.”