S Quotes
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“Some women are like elephants. I don't mean size, I mean they never forget.”
“Some women are lost in the fire. Some women are built from it.”
“Some women are meant to change the world while others are meant to hold it together.”
Source: Second Glance: A Novel
“Some women are meant to change the world, while others are meant to hold it together. And then there are those of us who simply don't want to be in it, because we know no matter how much we struggle, we can't comfortably fit.”
Source: Second Glance: A Novel
“Some women are naturally thin. But there needs to be an appreciation for a variety of types of women because we don't all come in one package. We're not pre-destined to all be a size six.”
“Some women are not gold diggers. They dig for metals that are way more precious.”
“Some women are so cruel that they do not choose to at least not play hard to get, when they are being pursued by men who they know they will intentionally infect with HIV.”
“Some women are to be captured by storm and some taken by siege; yet if there be not a traitor in her heart that shall deliver up the garrison, thou shalt not prevail over her.”
“Some women attract desire. Others do not.”
Source: The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In)
“Some women become reckless with the fire, some find every way to put it out and rise above with the ashes left behind.”
“Some women being empowered does not prove the patriarchy is dead. It proves that some of us are lucky.”
Source: Bad Feminist
“Some women born to raise a beautiful families while some women are born to build an empire from ashes and rule the rest.”
“Some women can touch a man and heal like Jesus. The man who sees sunrise from a Belle woman's bed will swear he's been born again.”
Source: The Rock Orchard: A Novel
“Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.”
“Some women cannot understand that marriage is not everything and that work comes first.”
Source: Kinfolk
“Some women chasing men, and some - for dreams. If you are at a fork, remember, your career will not wake up one morning to say that more does not love you.”
“Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams.”
“Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.”
“Some women choose to stay at home and be housewives. If they are happy with it, then it's a wonderful choice. But I know I couldn't do that. I couldn't be a housewife.”
“Some women chose to embody this new form of physical empowerment & transformed their words into actions. Exhibition boxer Minnie Rosenblatt Besser had spent years training in the manly art of boxing. She promised to meet any willing opponent, male or female, in the ring. Besser specifically called out several famous male boxers but insisted that she was most anxious to meet Brooklyn boxer Eddie Avery, who had been arrested for wife-beating. Besser explained, 'Any man who will strike a helpless woman I believe to be a coward. Should Avery pluck up enough courage to meet me I think I will prove the truth of this proposition to the world at large.”
“Some women destroy all your sensibility towards them by their coldness, others by their heat.”
“Some women do not masturbate for pleasure; they masturbate to make a political statement: to remind us that women do not really need men (or at least not as much and as frequently as every single male chauvinist and every single misogynist believes).”
Source: On Masturbation: A Satirical Essay
“Some women don't care what you can do for them. They care about what you could make of them in the inside.”
“Some women don't care how their quilts look. They piece the squares together any sort of way, but she couldn't stand careless sewing. She wanted her quilts, and Joy's, made right. Quilts stay a long time after people are gone from this world, and witness about them for good or bad. She wanted people to see, when she was gone, that she'd never been a shiftless or don't-care woman.”
Source: Black April: A Novel
“Some women drop off the face of the earth when they get involved with a man. And that's what it's been like with me.”
“Some women endowed with pulchritude are less in manners. They flaunt their admirable natural assets as if they are the sole prerequisite for a successful relationship.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.”
Source: Works
“Some women fear the fire...
Some women simple become it.”
“Some women fear the fire. Some women simply become it.”
“Some women feel power is important, some women feel that looks are important, tenderness, intelligence...but sense of humor seems to permeate all of them.”
“Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.”
Source: Self-portrait
“Some women feel the need to act like they're never scared, needy or hurt; like they're as hardened as a man. I think that's dishonest. It's ok to feel delicate sometimes. Real beauty is in the fragility of your petals. A rose that never wilts isn't a rose at all.”
Source: Write like no one is reading 3
“Some women flirt more with what they say, and some with what they do.”
“Some women get divorces on the grounds of incompatibility; others, on just the first two syllables.”
Source: Humorous English: a guide to comic usage, jocular speech and writing, and witty grammar
“Some women get erased a little at a time, some all at once. Some reappear. Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would have her disappear. She struggles with the forces that would tell her story for her, or write her out of the story, the genealogy, the rights of man, the rule of law. The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt.”
Source: Men Explain Things to Me
“Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.”
“Some women had more penises in their mouth than men had kisses in theirs but it's a relationship that clarifies their worth.”
“Some women hate it so much that I would hear them vomiting in the bathroom between scenes. I would find others outside, smoking endless chains of Marlboro Lights… But the multi-billion dollar porn industry wants you to believe the fantasy that we porn actresses love sex. They want you to buy into the lie that we enjoy being degraded by all kinds of repulsive acts. Creatively edited films and prettified packaging are designed to brainwash consumers into believing that the lust we portray on hot and bothered faces are part of the act. But the reality is women are in unspeakable pain from being slapped, bit, spit upon, kicked and called names like “filthy little whore” and “toilet cunt.”
Source: Truth Behind the Fantasy of Porn: The Greatest Illusion on Earth
“Some women have 'always' been lesbians. Others, like myself, have 'become' one. As much a sociocultural construction as it is an effect of early childhood experiences, sexual identity is nether innate nor simply acquired, but dynamically (re)structured by forms of fantasy private and public, conscious and unconscious, which are culturally available and historically specific.”
“Some women have a pulsing energy almost too sharp and salty to endure and when they are in pain their pain is ferocious and shatters all over the place.”
Source: Mink River
“Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.”
“Some women have been faking orgasms for so long that they sometimes fake one when they are masturbating.”
Source: On Masturbation: A Satirical Essay
“Some women have kissed—and some are kissing—a lot of frogs, even though the very first man that they have each kissed was and is still a prince.”
“Some women have said, 'Gee, here I am getting involved with this fat guy, what will people think of me?' But they were converted and sometimes surprised.”
“Some women have the best husbands. Others make the best of the husbands they have.”
“Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: 'This looks much better on.' On what? On fire?”
“Some women just aren’t cut out to be mothers, and unfortunately it had taken Susanna three kids to realize she was one of them.”
Source: Tales of the Otherworld
“Some women just fight to fight. I fight to win.”
“Some women like to treat a man like a piece of bubble gum. The poor sap thinks everything’s fine. And it is—until the taste runs out. Then she’ll just spit him out the car window of her life and never look back.”
Source: Illusion of Luck
“Some women look like their mothers’ mothers. Some look like they’re their mothers’ mothers.”