Women
And Men Quotes - Women feel everything deeply but express subtly
“There
was always something going on in the background—some plotting or mulling over
some slight or lack of attention, quite unintended, of course, but noted and
filed away for subsequent scrutiny. And much of the time men would be unaware of
it, until it all came out in a torrent of recrimination and tears.”
―
Alexander McCall Smith, blue shoes and happiness (No 1 Ladies Detective Agency
“Women
always had private business to raise with men [...] There was always something
going on in the background—some plotting or mulling over some slight or lack of
attention, quite unintended, of course, but noted and filed away for subsequent
scrutiny. And much of the time men would be unaware of it, until it all came
out in a torrent of recrimination and tears.”
―
Alexander McCall Smith, blue shoes and happiness (No 1 Ladies Detective Agency
“Women
feel everything deeply but express subtly.”
―
Avijeet Das
“The
big willow clogging the channel was evidence of the damage men could do, but
maybe they would be different if they were allowed on the island. Maybe they
would learn to be a little more like women. They wouldn't have to start fires
here the way they did at Boneset; they wouldn't have to burn the rotting wood
where hen-of-the-woods mushrooms grew. Donkey would have to tell them about all
the special care the island needed. Every crevice and swollen place needed a
certain treatment--- different in spring than in summer or fall. There were
nesting sites to watch out for, broken places in a tree's bark that could be
sealed with goop to help the tree survive. The women who had lived on the
island all this time moved carefully, tenderly, because there was so much to
lose.”
―
Bonnie Jo Campbell, The Waters
“Men,
she knew, were not to be trusted. They had their courting face--all politeness,
and bows, and compliments, and "May I have this dance?" And then they
had the face they wore to stare down at their peas as they avoided the gaze of
their wife across the dinner table. Worse still, she knew, she knew, that there
were some very respectable, dignified, and exceedingly polite gentlemen who
wore quite another face entirely behind closed doors. This was a cruel face of
power wielded over another--a horse, a servant, even a wife.”
―
Olivia Elliott, A Dangerous Man to Trust?
“But
you must remember, Mr. Thornton, no choices are free choices for a lady. We are
always compelled in one way or another.”
―
Olivia Elliott, A Dangerous Man to Trust?
“When
she looked up, he was still gazing at her. Serafina had felt eyes on her before
when she had been out in society, and she had never appreciated the feeling.
She always felt like a piece of mutton hanging in a shop window, the gentlemen
peering through the glass, sizing her up, imagining how she might taste
compared to some other piece of meat on offer that day. This was not that
feeling.”
―
Olivia Elliott, A Dangerous Man to Trust?
“Men
want to be a rich man. Women want to get a rich man.”
―
Tamerlan Kuzgov
“The
men of Sirupat weren't fighters because they didn't want to be, and in my book
there's no higher praise than that--and that's the main reason, when you come
to think of it, why women are so infinitely superior to men. But for God's sake
don't tell them I said so.”
―
K.J. Parker, Saevus Corax Deals with the Dead
“If
a woman was supposed to be first, she wouldn't have been created second.”
―
Tamerlan Kuzgov
“How
interesting: that female instinct to duck, to hide, like prey catching sight of
glowing eyes in the night. Something inherent in our very genes, our very DNA”
―
Stacy Willingham, Only If You're Lucky
“I
don't like the way he says that -- Girls -- like we're children being scolded.
Some words should be ours to own, at-times-vicious yet tender terms of
endearment we toss around like glitter that suddenly taste sour in the mouths
of men.”
―
Stacy Willingham, Only If You're Lucky
“Language
gives us an insight into the way women are viewed in a
male-dominated
society . . .
A
man is commanding—a woman is demanding.
A
man is forceful—a woman is pushy.
A
man is uncompromising—a woman is a ball-breaker.
A
man is a perfectionist—a woman’s a pain in the ass.
He’s
assertive—she’s aggressive.
He
strategizes—she manipulates.
He
shows leadership—she’s controlling.
He’s
committed—she’s obsessed.
He’s
persevering—she’s relentless.
He
sticks to his guns—she’s stubborn.
If a
man wants to get it right, he’s looked up to and respected. If a
woman
wants to get it right, she’s difficult and impossible.
If
he acts, produces, and directs, he’s called multitalented. If she
does
the same thing, she’s called vain and egotistical.”
―
Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra
“Men
are more concerned with keeping unmarried women pure than keeping married women
happy.”
―
Byrd Nash, Delicious Death
“Men
might hunt on horses, but ladies shot game while sitting in chairs around the
dining table.”
―
Byrd Nash, Delicious Death
“You
nitwits think that women need alimony. They don't. They can stand on their own
two feet.”
―
Avijeet Das
“We
are born of women, learn about life from women, and learn to love through women
-
yet we violate our women, despise our women, harm our women.
Isn't
it time we stood alongside our women, fought fervently for our women?”
―
Anubha Saxena
