Women
And Men Quotes - I'm trying to be a man like a woman
“It's
easier for a rich man to love his wife with everything he's got but very hard
for a rich woman to be submissive with all she's got.”
― Maduabuchukwu
Prestine Akaeze
“She
tries to walk not too fast and not too slow. She doesn't want to attract any
attention. She pretends she doesn't hear the whistles and catcalls and lewd
comments. Sometimes she forgets and leaves her house in a skirt or a tank top
because it's a warm day and she wants to feel warm air on her bare skin. Before
long, she remembers. She keeps her keys in her hand, three of them held between
her fingers, like a dull claw. She makes eye contact only when necessary and if
a man should catch her eye, she juts her chin forward, makes sure the line of
her jaw is strong. When she leaves work or the bar late, she calls a car
service and when the car pulls up to her building, she quickly scans the street
to make sure it's safe to walk the short distance from the curb to the door.
She once told a boyfriend about these considerations and he said, 'You are
completely out of your mind.' She told a new friend at work and she said,
'Honey you're not crazy. You're a woman.”
―
Roxane Gay, Difficult Women
“As
a man, you can help women, but don't help yourself from the women you help.
Never take advantage of people who need your help.”
―
De philosopher DJ Kyos
“Women
are the most beautiful, alluring, intelligent and fascinating human beings. Without
them we are a totally failed species. With them there is hope.”
―
T.W. Lawless
“She
let out a laugh that would've caused me to wet my shorts -- had I been wearing
any. A contemptuous, sneer of a laugh -- like the hiss of a rattlesnake.”
―
Quentin R. Bufogle, KING OF THE NEW YORK STREETS
“The
joke is that women, unlike their counterparts, have to be "all things to
all people" if they would succeed. Evidently, they have to be just like
men and women, in their womanly way of being.”
―
Kathryn Bond Stockton, Gender(s)
“Periodic
revivals of Plato's and Aristotle's ideas made a great impact on the church and
pagan societies in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and on
much of today's culture. These ideas have been mass marketed. Many have eaten
of these men's fruit, not realizing the roots of what they were taught. The
ideas of these men have insidiously clouded the clear understanding of the
Bible for many, setting us up to view women as an inferior, subordinate
"other".”
―
David Joel Hamilton, Why Not Women : A Biblical Study of Women in Missions,
Ministry, and Leadership
“And
the curve in her lips paused time!”
―
Avijeet Das
“You
need to listen to reason!”
“I
am,” she said, furious now. “Just not your reasons.”
―
Lexie Talionis, Flames of Lethe
“And
he treated me with a chivalrous masculine know-how that I sopped up like a
person who'd never heard of how chivalry was just another nefarious masculine
scheme to keep women in their place.”
―
Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
“I'm
trying to be a man like a woman”
―
Mohammed Zaki Ansari, "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
“We
women could be called creatures, if only the men who said such careless words
accepted our claws were fearsome things when we decided to scratch.”
―
Kerri Maniscalco, Escaping from Houdini
“We
shouldn’t assume that women and girls don’t know the difference between reality
and fantasy. We don’t fear that men who read murder mysteries and thrillers are
going to have a hard time not becoming serial killers, so why should we assume
that a girl won’t know that she doesn’t have to change from a mermaid to human
in order to find love just because of a movie?”
―
Lyssa Kay Adams, The Bromance Book Club
“We
were always looking for reasons a woman might be murdered, other than our
common gender. We want to blame the victim for what happened to her, when we
know the problem is almost always men.”
―
JoeAnn Hart, Stamford '76: A True Story of Murder, Corruption, Race, and
Feminism in the 1970s
“The
women who take husbands not out of love but out of greed, to get their bills
paid, to get a fine house and clothes and jewels; the women who marry to get
out of a tiresome job, or to get away from disagreeable relatives, or to avoid
being called an old maid — these are whores in everything but name. The only
difference between them and my girls is that my girls gave a man his money's
worth.”
―
Polly Adler
“When
he heard that she was thinking of carrying on with her career in parallel with
Peter's, he exclaimed in surprise: "But who's going to take care of the
kids?"She really did try to keep quiet. Well, maybe not really, but in
hindsight she thinks she did try at least. Eventually she turned to the
president and pointed at his greasy, sausage like fingers, which were clutching
a prawn sandwich, than at his stomach, which was straining against the buttons
of his shirt, and said, "I thought maybe you could take care of them. You
have got bigger breasts than me, after all.”
―
Fredrik Backman, Beartown
“My
hints had, undoubtedly and unintentionally, made her feel insecure, guilty,
inadequate, afraid that she was losing whatever it was that turned me on; in
short, it aroused all the self-doubt so readily awakened in women after
thousands of years of servitude. Hence my zeal in denying the effects of time
was abetted by Laura's complicity.”
―
Romain Gary, Au-delà de cette limite votre ticket n'est plus valable
“When
a woman’s amorous advances are declined by a man she is apt to draw one or two
conclusions; one is that he is homosexual and the other is that he is
impotent.”
―
W. Somerset Maugham, Theatre
