#women

"I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody)"

"A woman made of parts is a dangerous thing. You never know when she'll throw away a piece you may need."

"Rejection is an opportunity for your selection."

"On ne naît pas femme: on le devient."

"She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression."

"No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it."

"Don't marry a rich man. Marry a good man. He will spend his life trying to keep you happy. No rich man can buy that!"

"I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate."

"What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?The world would split open."

"We women talk too much, but even then we don't tell half what we know."

"I play- it's kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what's their friendship like, and what's their life like and so I just play one of the four friends."

"They had studied law, information technology and art history as part of their beauty treatment, they had let Norwegian taxpayers finance years at university just so that they could end up as overqualified, stay-at-home playthings and sit here exchanging confidences about how to keep their sugar daddies suitably happy, suitably jealous and suitably on their toes."

"If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers."

"Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything."

"I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard."

"I water fake plants, because I’m growing a garden of fake mustaches. Lest no man (or woman) question my ability as a lover."

"Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no holds barred. Women find his power almost as much of a turn-on as his money."

"One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her."

"My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made to speak those truths for which I am still seeking, I had made contact with other women while we examined the words to fit a world in which we all believed, bridging our differences."

"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."