#women

"Love is written by the soul."

"She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless."

"After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her."

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

"I embrace the label of bad feminist because I am human. I am messy. I’m not trying to be an example. I am not trying to be perfect. I am not trying to say I have all the answers. I am not trying to say I’m right. I am just trying—trying to support what I believe in, trying to do some good in this world, trying to make some noise with my writing while also being myself."

"Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power."

"I like men who have a future and women who have a past."

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

"Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized."

"President Kennedy understood the importance of equal pay for equal work and signed historic legislation that gave women around the country hope that one day their wages would be on par with that of their male counterparts."

"Both porn and religion distort a person’s perspectives on women."

"Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better"

"I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people."

"Lesbian humor isn't trying to sell anything, it doesn't have to sell out. Coming out as a lesbian onstage is still a very political act; if it weren't, more women would do it."

"I can't decide whether I'm a good girl wrapped up in a bad girl, or if I'm a bad girl wrapped up in a good girl. And that's how I know I'm a woman!"

"We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change."

"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."

"'Mistresses' is about the lives of four women, each going through different versions of infidelity. Their longtime friendship is what gets them through extremely challenging times."

"I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay."

"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!"