#oman

He knew she was there by the rapture and the terror that seized on his heart. She was standing talking to a lady at the opposite end of the ground. There was apparently nothing striking either in her dress or her attitude. But for Levin she was as easy to find in that crowd as a rose among nettles. Everything was made bright by her. She was the smile that shed light all around her. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#romance #attitude

This is what I wanted tonight. Time away from the tribe with Liv and Perry, and even with Brooke. With no responsibilities and nothing to do except be. ↗

— Veronica Rossi

#romance #life

Scratch most feminists and underneath there is a woman who longs to be a sex object. The difference is that is not all she wants to be. ↗

— Betty Rollin

#feminists #longs #most #object #scratch

I'm not sure if men really understand this, but I don't think there's a woman in America who really expects her life to be easy. In our own ways, we all know better! ↗

— Ann Romney

#better #easy #expects #her #i

To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is a very debatable subject, or rather it is a subject which the wiser mind will hardly care to debate much. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#care #close #come #debatable #debate

A really plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm. ↗

— Edgar Saltus

#charm #however #neglects #plain #really

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother. ↗

— Margaret Sanger

#call #choose #consciously #control #does

Even that. What is the point in living forever, if it is not with the woman I love? ↗

— Michael Scott

#immortality #love #the-necromancer #love

We have formed a sick little friendship over the past year ↗

— Dee Remy

#obsession #paranormal #romance #sex #sickness

Real is not Dreams, Dreams are not Real, Unless you find the fine line...and erase it ↗

— C. Elizabeth

#happy #happy-endings #love #love-story #romance