#women

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#empowerment #flaws #freedom #gender #identity

Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with. ↗

— Gillian Anderson

#love #men #relationships #women #friendship

Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#men #witchcraft #witches #women #humor

I like men who have a future and women who have a past. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#humor #men #women #humor

Better to be strong than pretty and useless. ↗

— Lilith Saintcrow

#inspirational #pretty #strength #women #inspirational

A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it. ↗

— D.H. Lawrence

#living #philosophy #women #life

A girl should be two things: who and what she wants. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#empowerment #girls #identity #individuality #self-determination

Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid. ↗

— George Carlin

#men #stupid #truth #women #men

I cant take it like this much longer, Milt," Karen said muffledly into the big CKC shirt with its male smell, allowing herself the luxury of letting the bars all the way down for once, enjoying for just this moment the eternal degradation of being a woman. "I cant take it much longer," she whimpered, tasting it, the eternally caught and held hard in the grasp of some man, the forever humiliated heavy weight it was impossible to squirm out from under, the forever helpless except for the mercy of him who always takes what he wants without any, and that all women learn instinctively not to expect [...] That was all they wanted. That was all any of them wanted. You give them the greatest thing you possess, the most intimate secret, and they --- just take it. Well, let them have it. Let them all have some of it. Let them root and rut and rowel, as if it was no more important than that why were they all so anxious to keep it away from each other? ↗

— James Jones

#gender-politics #men #misanthropy #monogamy #power

How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself? ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#women #women