#women

"Fortunately, among werewolf women, the word "bitch"is not offensive. I was having a lot of fun with that."Hey there, bitches!"I called as I came through the door. "What are my favorite bitches up to today?"

"Vampires, like virgins or priests, are things that women believe in. We must never fail to humor them in such matters."

"We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is."

"Women are delicate creatures. Fragile. Gentle. Made by God to be sheltered from the harshness of this world..Morgan MacDonnell"

"I live for sex. I celebrate it, and relish the electricity of it, with every fibre of my being. I can see no better reason for being alive."

"Alas, woman is faithful as long as she loves, but you demand that she be faithful without love and give herself without enjoyment. Who is cruel then, woman or man?"

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

"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will."

"She's beautiful, but so what? If the University of Florida taught me anything, it's that beautiful women are everywhere. The trick is to find the diamond among all the glittering cubic zirconias."

"After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels."

"One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness."

"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."

"Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from."

"A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen."

"Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men."

"When something needs to be said, you look for a man to say it. But when something needs actually to be done, you look for a woman."

"Who are your favorite heroines in real life? The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their beauty to defy the foulness of theocracy. Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Azar Nafisi as their ideal feminine model."

"I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny and have things to say about men and women and families and children and life in America today."

"Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they have no hope of achieving full human stature."

"He who wants a rose must respect her thorn."