“Men see their Beatrice with a luminous shimmer, a numinous haze, a close and yet far quality: but what do women see?”
Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
“People use women's backs as bridges every day without ever thinking twice.”
Source: Anita de Monte Laughs Last
“All of her is holy site.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“What I shall feel to-morrow I cannot tell. Maybe I shall go blind again, for women are never two days alike in their minds or bodies.”
Source: The Judgment House: The Works of Gilbert Parker
“There is only one, only one skill a woman like you or me needs in life… Endure”
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns
“White girls want to be fragile like bombs
Not fragile like the flowers
Black girls aren’t even given the choice
Because our feelings simply don’t matter
We are and were never expected to be fragile”
“Ni tu ni tus lectores sois capaces de imaginar que la vida de cada mujer es diferente, que cada aguanta como puede su propio dolor”
Source: Lo que sabe la señorita Kim
“Pero mi madre y yo, incapaces de ignorar las obligaciones familiares, las amistades, los formalismos,y las convenciones sociales, decidimos asistir, y tuvimos que soportar una atención incómoda de los demás, así como el consuelo exagerado y las miradas dudosas de otros”
Source: Lo que sabe la señorita Kim
“A mi situación de mujer soltera que vive sola, y que por ende debe cuidarse y protegerse ella solita, además de cargar con la responsabilidad de todo lo que sucede”
Source: Lo que sabe la señorita Kim
“Повдигам се да стигна прозореца открехнат.
Зад него са жените - заоблени от парата, красиви.
Как искам да ги видя!”
Source: Крилете на вестителя