#women

"Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn't break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out very slowly."

"Why is it that all cars are women?"he asked. "Because they're fussy and demanding,"answered Zee. "Because if they were men, they'd sit around and complain instead of getting the job done,"I told him."

"I think it's important for little girls growing up, and young women, to have one in every walk of life. So from that point of view, I'm proud to be a role model!"

"Most men fear getting laughed at or humiliated by a romantic prospect while most women fear rape and death."

"No matter what happened yesterday it is insignificant when compared to what lies within the core of your being today."

"The success of the suffrage movement would injure women spiritually and intellectually, for they would be assuming a burden though they knew themselves unable to bear it. It is the sediment, not the wave, of a sex. It is the antithesis of that highest and sweetest mystery - conviction by submission, and conquest by sacrifice."

"I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother."

"You can have it all, just not all at the same time."

"A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle."

"When she was younger, she felt that he wanted to know everything about her, but she was sometimes afraid to tell too much. She was afraid he would know her too well, that he would find some weakness in her, some element that would turn him away, maybe even a quality she didn't even realize she possessed."

"I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."

"I fall in love with you four times a year: winter, spring, summer, and fall. The leaves may change, but how I feel about you does not."

"Every night I cuddle with a blob of unbaked clay I fashioned in the shape of a woman. But that’s what being in love is all about."

"How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?"

"I don't think men are that attracted by glamour. I think women are attracted by glamour. I think men are attracted by a sense of friendship."

"You can tell people of the need to struggle, but when the powerless start to see that they really can make a difference, nothing can quench the fire."

"I hope that I inspire women to believe in themselves, no matter where they come from; no matter what education they have; what particular background they originate from."

"If I don't eat junk, I don't gain weight."

"What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,’ and, ‘What a man is is an arrow into the future and a what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from."

"There's two kinds of women--those you write poems about and those you don't."