Women
And Men Quotes - Love is a trick best performed by men
“A
strong woman builds her own world. She is one who is wise enough to know that
it will attract the man she will gladly share it with.”
―
Ellen J. Barrier, How to Trust God When All Other Resources Have Failed
“Live
your life in such a way that you'll be remembered for your kindness,
compassion, fairness, character, benevolence, and a force for good who had much
respect for life, in general.”
―
Germany Kent
“I
come across too much material on "how to make a man want you",
"how to make a man commit", "how to make a man finally pop the
question", "how to make a man take you seriously", "how to
get into a man's emotions." And I laugh. My dear fellow women, enough! Do
not busy yourselves with such things! Instead, fall in love with yourself!”
― C.
JoyBell C.
“Young
girls today are very mistaken to be thinking that their sense of self-worth and
their acknowledgment of their beauty depends on whether a man will give that to
them or not. Such naïveté! And so what will happen when the man changes his
mind about her? Tells her she's not beautiful enough? That she's not good
enough? Cheats on her? Leaves her? Then what happens? She will lose all her
self-worth, she will think she is not good enough, she is not beautiful enough,
because all of those feelings depended on the man in the first place! And along
with the loss of the man, it will all be lost as well! Mothers, teach your
daughters better. It pains me to see such naive innocence right under my nose!
Such naïveté does no good for any girl. It is better for a girl to be
worldly-wise and have street-smarts! That's what a girl needs to have in life!
Not wide-eyed delusional innocence! The sense of self-worth and acknowledgment
of being beautiful must not come from a man, it must come from inside the woman
herself, men will come and men will go and their coming and going must not take
an effect on the woman's sense of worth and beauty.”
― C.
JoyBell C.
“Once,
she closed the book abruptly and said with annoyance, "That's
enough." "Why?" "Because I've had it, it's always the same
story: inside something small there's something even smaller that wants to leap
out, and outside something large there's always someting larger that wants to
keep it a prisoner.”
―
Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name
“A
weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.”
―
David Mitchell, Ghostwritten
“A
woman is like an ocean, sir, beautiful to look at but dangerous to cross.”
―
Kevin Ansbro, The Minotaur's Son & Other Wild Tales
“Sometimes,'
she said, 'it takes a woman to bring out the best in a man.”
―
Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the
Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
“Women
may get to wear lots of
pretty
colors, but men get the comfortable shoes.
Anita
Blake Vampire Hunter”
―
Laurell K. Hamilton
“Marian
exhaled. 'Because God made me a woman is no reason to be such a woman as men
wish to make me.”
―
A.E. Chandler, The Scarlet Forest: A Tale of Robin Hood
“She
turned and bolted out the door. She had learnt an important lesson - "When
a man paid 'for' you...you paid 'to' him." It was her first Valentine
slaughter.”
―
Mallika Nawal, I'm a Woman & I'm on SALE
“How
dare a person tell a woman, how to dress, how to talk, how to behave! Any being
who does that, is no human.”
―
Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality
“Now
we really like to put people in boxes. As men, we do it because we don't
understand characters that aren't ourselves and we aren't willing to put
ourselves in the skin of those characters and women, I think, terrify us. We
tend not to write women as human beings. It's cartoons we're making now. And
that's a shame.”
―
Paul Haggis
“Men
were stupid to forget what good sleuths women could be.”
―
Edan Lepucki, California
“Well
she was bright; and she danced...And my function in life was to keep that
bright thing in existence. And it was almost as difficult as trying to catch
with your hand that dancing reflection. And the task lasted for years.”
―
Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion
“Women
KNOW, we just know. Even if we didn't know, we would know. Men won't get this,
but women will..because we KNOW”
―
Karen Gibbs, A Gallery of Scrapbook Creations
“It
was forever fascinating to me that men never noticed much about Mary other
than, "Well, I mean, she's pretty and everything..." That high gloss,
which floored women, went right over men's heads. It was as though they had no
receivers for her particular wavelength.”
―
Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
“Love
is a trick best performed by men.”
―
Colin Tegerdine, You Can't Google Life
“From
my journeys in southern Europe I have gained the impression that in our time the
Virgin Mary is the only heavenly creature who is really beloved by millions.
But I believe these millions would be uncomprehending and perhaps even offended
if I were to tell them that the Virgin Mary had made a significant discovery,
solved difficult mathematical problems, or masterfully organized and
administered an association of housewives in Nazareth.”
―
Isak Dinesen, Daguerreotypes and Other Essays
