262 Quotes About Women-s-fiction

He studied her tastes and reactions - in food, sex, or music - as if he were drawing a map of the continent that he had just discovered.

pain and guilt - the two feelings he hated the most - made him frown.

we didn't have anything to talk about anymore except money.

I don't date. I'm strictly for recreational purposes. - Leo

Men and women in their very essence -in their souls if you wish- have natural parity. (...) This was a relatively new idea at the time [of Shakespeare]. It ran counter to the teaching in the Bible -Eve's being made out of Adam's rib to be his helpmate -which was the basis for the idea, held for so long, that women do not have souls of their own but are dependent on their fathers' and husbands' .

She [Cressida] knows it is men's sexual desire that makes women "angels" before they have been able to possess them; once possessed, women are "things" [Troilus and Cressida I.2, 225-28, 233-34].

I had never fully understood our tradition- why women wailed so loudly and for so long after someone died. It was only now I realized that women wailed more on account of everything they never had a chance to say. All the questions they never asked. All the times we never really talked about the things that mattered most. It was the one time that women could be angry. Be loud. Say anything. Yell. Purge the soul. And no one thought less of them. Everyone expected it.

I won't let you down, Mama. I won't let myself down.

Teetering in the space between light and dark…awake and asleep…death and immortality, she was buffeted by the continuous ebb and flow of the tide. Where the white rippling surf had once gently kissed her feet, the undertow now swept her away.