F Quotes
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“For women it is generally admitted that her sexual life is null or subordinate to that of the companion-legal or otherwise-that she has chosen. She should live and feel for him; be passionate if he is, and maintain herself neutral if he is cold. Until now a man has considered sensual desire as something that pertains to him, not recognizing in women a moral and physical self organized like him.”
Source: A Nation Of Women: An Early Feminist Speaks Out; Mi Opinion Sobre Las Libertades, Derechos y Deberes de la Mujer (Recovering the U.s. Hispanic Literary Heritage)
“For women live much more in the past...they attach themselves to places.”
“For women, men creates war, even though women are the symbols of love, peace, and harmony.”
“For women of a certain age, how do you meet a guy, fall in love, and decide he's the right man to have children with? Your clock's ticking, you're looking at him, and it's a crazy, pressure-filled experience.”
“For women of my generation, it was the 'juggling act.' Jobs, marriage, children, homes, and aging parents were the balls we added, tossing them in the air as our lives filled up and praying they wouldn't come crashing down on our heads.”
“For women raised in the '70s, high heels can still carry a stigma; they're associated with being stupid, with just wanting to please a man. Other women find them empowering.”
“For women, the boundaries of acceptability are strict, and they are many. We must be seductive but pure, quiet but not aloof, fragile but industrious, and always, always small. We must not be too successful, too ambitious, too independent, too self-centered—and when we can’t manage all the contradictory restrictions, we are turned into grotesques. Women have been monsters, and monsters have been women, in centuries’ worth of stories, because stories are a way to encode these expectations and pass them on.”
Source: Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology
“For women, the life choices (which by in large are made for them by their societies) come down to one of two evils - either the overloaded worker / wife / mother with her double burden, or the underoccupied housewife / drone with her half-life of deprivation and despair.”
Source: Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World
“For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive,
and it is within that knowledge that our real power I rediscovered”
Source: The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
“For women the wage gap sets up an infuriating Catch-22 situation. They do the housework because they earn less, and they earn lessbecause they do the housework.”
“For women there are, undoubtedly, great difficulties in the path, but so much the more to overcome. First, no woman should say, "I am but a woman!" But a woman! What more can you ask to be?”
Source: Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals
“For women to be supplying the soldiery with banners, flannel shirts and other material comforts was, superficially, all of a piece with their ministrations to their menfolk at home. Such contributions to the war effort were socially acceptable because they could be seen as an extension into the military sphere of the traditional female virtues of charity, nurture and needlework. Yet in reality what the women were doing represented the thin end of a far more radical wedge. Consciously or not, these female patriots were staking out a civic role for themselves. And many of them relished it.”
“For women to be urged to think continually of beauty's fragility and transience is a way to try to keep us subservient, by maintaining in us a fatalism that has not been part of Western men's thinking since the Renaissance.”
Source: The Beauty Myth
“For women to share in the rights and opportunities considered important for men, the abolition of sexual harassment is a necessity.”
Source: Penile Imperialism: The Male Sex Right and Women's Subordination
“For women were dangerous in every part of their anatomy, from top to toe. Luxuriant hair could excite lust accordingly the Jewish Talmud from A.D. 600 onward allowed a man to divorce a wife who appeared in public with her hair uncovered. While St Paul went so far as to instruct Christians that a woman who came bare headed to church had better have her head shaved. The female face was another Venus's flytrap for helpless males - in a bizarre piece of theology dated from the 3rd Century A.D., the early Christian father Tertullian held that "the blume of virgins" was responsible for the fall of the angels: "so perilous a face, then, ought to be kept shaded when it has cast stumbling stones even so far as heaven.”
Source: Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World
“For women who do not love us, as for the "disappeared", knowing that we no longer have any hope does not prevent us form continuing to wait. We live on our guard, on watch; women whose son has gone asea on a dangerous exploration imagine at any minute, although it has long been certain that he has perished, that he will enter, miraculously saved, and healthy.”
“For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.”
Source: The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values
“For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes.”
Source: The satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis
“For women, all women, whatever our sexuality, it's crucial to our health that we are able to separate sexuality from reproduction. I mean whether or not we can control when we give birth is the biggest element in our health, our education, our economic welfare, our life expectancy, everything.”
“For women, beauty is more important than the mind, because the man is easier to watch than to think.”
“For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.”
Source: The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950
“For women, I take inspiration from strong women with good aesthetics and integrity, and a little tomboy influence.”
“For women, marriages foreclosed often resulted in an accumulation of booty; for men, these failed projects of implausible optimism were more likely to manifest themselves in material lack. It was hard to resist the metaphorical impression that women got to keep the past itself, whereas men were simply robbed of it.”
Source: The Post-Birthday World
“For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.”
“For women, the higher their cholesterol is, the longer their life; there’s a direct relationship between the two. Your cholesterol cannot be too high if you are a woman, but it can certainly be too low.”
“For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power is rediscovered. It is this real connection, which is so feared by a patriarchal world.”
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.”
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real and diverse female bodies can't possibly fit. Without these visual references, each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms. We stop being comparatives. We begin to be unique.”
“For words are magical formulae. They leave finger marks be hind on the brain, which in the twinkling of an eye become the footprints of history. One ought to watch one' s every word.”
“For words divide and rend But silence is most noble till the end.”
“For words of rapture groping, they"Never such love," swore "ever before was!"”
Source: Selected poems
“For wordsmiths and masters of words, without necessarily being harsh with words, the words have a tendency to shoot straight to the hearts of people, and this either deeply touches them or deeply angers them. Like the apostles in all their loving controversies are those who are masters of words while combining this gift with truth.”
Source: Killosophy
“For, work as you will, there is no chance of a new and better world until the old be utterly destroyed.”
Source: The Nether World
“For work, I have to be living in cities, I really cherish the time when I get to be out in the countryside.”
“For workaholics, all the eggs of self-esteem are in the basket of work.”
Source: The plateauing trap: how to avoid today's #1 career dilemma
“For works of the mind really great there is no old age, no decrepitude. It is inconceivable that a time should come when Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, should not ring in the ears of civilized man.”
“For worldly activities like swimming and paragliding, you need to put on additional special outfits. For spiritual pursuit, you need to remove your existing outfits (layers of ego).”
“For worship is, essentially, the reverse of sin. Sin began (and begins) when we succumb to the temptation, "You shall be as gods." We make ourselves the center of the universe and dethrone God. By contrast, worship is giving God his true worth; it is acknowledging Him to be the Lord of all things, and the Lord of everything in our lives. He is, indeed, the Most High God!”
Source: A Heart for God
“For writers from working-class families, the making of art is cultural disenfranchisement, for we do not belong in literary circles and our writing rarely makes it back home.”
Source: Rumors from the Cauldron: Selected Essays, Reviews, and Reportage
“For writers that rehearsal period is death. It is the most destructive thing of all to a script.”
“For writers who knowingly lie, for those who substitute unbelievable human behavior for the way people really act, I have nothing but contempt. Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do—to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street.
…The people in these stories are not without hope, but they acknowledge that even our fondest hopes (and our fondest wishes for our fellowmen and the society in which we live) may sometimes be vain. Often, even. But I think they also say that nobility most fully resides not in success but in trying to do the right thing… and that when we fail to do that, or willfully turn away from the challenge, hell follows.”
Source: Full Dark, No Stars
“For writers, writing is a great activity to engage your mind, body, and life. As, you know: taking on hobbies and activities can be enjoyable, and it gives you the opportunity to meet new people and experience new things that will enrich your life.”
“For writers, so much is done in isolation. It can be easy to feel detached, or to get a little lost along the way.”
“For writers: If you polish a book too much, it'll be flat and shiny and smooth--and not too interesting. It's the little pits and bumps and whatnot that show voice and make a book unique from all the other super shiny flat surfaces”
“For writing a first draft requires from the writer a peculiar internal state which ordinary life does not induce. ... how to set yourself spinning?”
“For writing, getting off our buts means getting on our butts-putting it into a chair and not moving from the chair for a set period of time.”
“For ya, love, I will be anything ya want... even a potato.”
Source: Spellbound
“For ye are a corpuscle in the body of God; thus a co-creator with Him, in what ye think, in what ye do.”
Source: Atlantis
“For ye will know not love, if ye knoweth not your God.”