Better to be strong than pretty and useless. Lilith Saintcrow, Strange Angels Inspiration #Girls #Inspirational #Pretty
I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives. Jane Austen, Persuasion #Clichés #Double Standards #Empowerment
Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women? Virginia Woolf #Men #Rescuing #Women
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 #Independence #Women
I don't think men are that attracted by glamour. I think women are attracted by glamour. I think men are attracted by a sense of friendship. Joanna Lumley Friendship #Glamour #Men #Women
A lot of women, when they're young, feel they have very good friends, and find later on that friendship is complicated. It's easy to be friends when everyone's 18. Zadie Smith Friendship #Easy #Good #Women
In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman. Margaret Thatcher #Gender Roles #Gender Stereotypes #Men
No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it. Elizabeth Peters #Amelia Peabody #Men #Women
Breast cancer deaths in America have been declining for more than a decade. Much of that success is due to early detection and better treatments for women. I strongly encourage women to get a mammogram. Larry Craig Success #Cancer #Early #Women
Women attribute their success to working hard, luck, and help from other people. Men will attribute that - whatever success they have, that same success - to their own core skills. Sheryl Sandberg Success #Luck #Men #Women
Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim. Nora Ephron #Courage #Empowerment #Self Determination
When I was working on my first novel, 'The Quilter's Apprentice,' I knew I wanted to write about friendship, especially women's friendship and how women use friendship to sustain themselves and nurture each other. Jennifer Chiaverini Friendship #Novel #Nurture #Women
There are so many things to talk about between black people, Hispanic people, white people, gay people, men, women, it's all based on fear. We all have fears, this thing that stops us from embracing as we are one. We are never going to be one. People are messed up, but humor lets us see how ignorant we can be. Marlon Wayans Humor #Fear #Men #Women
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, When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops? Truth #Crazy #Men #Stupid
Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven. George Sand Love #Earth #Heaven #Women
You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation. Brigham Young Education #Education #Feminism #Men
I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby Inspiration #Inspirational #Women