#om

Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks. ↗

— William Faulkner

#men #women #men

Mrs. MacAndrew shared the common opinion of her sex that a man is always a brute to leave a woman who is attached to him, but that a woman is much to blame if he does. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#sex #women #men

Civilized Man says: I am Self, I am Master, all the rest is other--outside, below, underneath, subservient. I own, I use, I explore, I exploit, I control. What I do is what matters. What I want is what matter is for. I am that I am, and the rest is women & wilderness, to be used as I see fit. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#patriarchy #wilderness #women #men

That's it. Love makes us all strong. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#inspirational-love #love #strength #strength-of-character #strength-of-spirit

Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality. ↗

— Les Brown

#does #opinion #other #people #reality

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me. ↗

— Ho Chi Minh

#communism #inspired #me

A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously. ↗

— David Mitchell

#women #women-and-men #women-s-inspirational #inspirational

He is beginning to master wisdom when he tries to learn how not to try. ↗

— Paul Brunton

#inspirational #wisdom #inspirational

We let ourselves loose on that simple blank piece of paper, and our bodies spill. The terror, the love…embodying our stories page after page. In a sense, the pen was our tongue, it is how we delineate the world. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#jamie-weise #journaling #love #overcoming #pages

I like to be somewhere at least where you can see a few girls around once in a while, even if they're only scratching their arms or blowing their noses or even just giggling or something. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#romance #inspirational