#women

"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."

"When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?"

"She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make?"

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

"Animals do it largely for the REPRODUCTION, but so-called Social Animals (People) do it regularly thinking that it will give them SATISFACTION."

"I want to be motivational and inspirational for everybody: my big aim is more women on bicycles."

"I used to date the lead singer of The Cranberries, but she cheated on me. Turns out she had some turkey on the side."

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

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

"Under her high brows, she eyed him straight on and straight across. She had gone to girls' schools, he recalled later. Those girls looked straight at you."

"Men are jealous of every woman, even when they don’t have the slightest interest in her themselves."

"My bursting heart must find vent at my pen."

"A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it."

"The real important things are kindness and a sense of humor. I've been fortunate to have dated and could have easily married women who have those qualities, and time and circumstances didn't work out. Timing plays a big part."

"There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me."

"How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode."

"She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog."

"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion."

"As I grow older, I think friendship between women is a thing to cherish."

"She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city"