#women

"She said she loved me, and I believed her, because she was looking directly at another man when she said it."

"Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought."

"If you write it down, you can make it happen."

"There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ourselves"

"Margaret Atwood, the Canadian novelist, once asked a group of women at a university why they felt threatened by men. The women said they were afraid of being beaten, raped, or killed by men. She then asked a group of men why they felt threatened by women. They said they were afraid women would laugh at them."

"I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern."

"I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything."

"Women respond to comfort and a sense of humor. I was always able to make them laugh, so that helps a lot."

"Women are our most miraculous muse, an enchanted intangibility that encourages all art."

"Human kind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible that a mass is improved by the improvement of only one part and the other part is ignored? Is it possible that if half of a mass is tied to earth with chains and the other half can soar into skies?"

"When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch."

"They lay silently. She was staring at something across the room. She was making him feel uncomfortable. 'It wouldn't work. It's the attraction of opposites,' he said.We're not opposites.'I don't mean just you and me. Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave."

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

"When you grow up as a girl, it is like there are faint chalk lines traced approximately three inches around your entire body at all times, drawn by society and often religion and family and particularly other women, who somehow feel invested in how you behave, as if your actions reflect directly on all womanhood."

"Women may fall when there's no strength in men.Act II"

"I had an interview once with some German journalist—some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early days after the communists—maybe a week after—and she wore a yellow sweater that was kind of see-through. She had huge tits and a huge black bra, and she said to me, ‘It’s impolite; remove your glasses.’ I said, ‘Do I ask you to remove your bra?"

"The girl was grateful to the young man for every bit of flattery; she wanted to linger for a moment in its warmth and so she said, 'You're very good at lying.''Do I look like a liar?''You look like you enjoy lying to women,' said the girl, and into her words there crept unawares a touch of the old anxiety, because she really did believe that her young man enjoyed lying to women."

"When three women all ignore each other, and each ignores me, it reminds me of Dark Jar Tin Zoo’s definition of love. Love is isn’t—even when it isn’t."

"To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken."

"Rejection is an opportunity for your selection."