7,390 Quotes About Women

The truth is that I need the stimulus of other people. Alone, over my dead fire, I tend to see the thin places in my own stories. The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely, imagining. He would not integrate, as I do. He would not have this devastating sense of grey ashes in a burnt-out grate.

How curiously one is changed by the addition, even at a distance, of a friend. How useful an office one's friends perform when they recall us. Yet how painful to be recalled, to be mitigated, to have one's self adulterated, mixed-up, become part of another.

Now is the time to become a myth.

Brunettes are full of electricity.

I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.

I try to make my comments like a woman's skirt: long enough to be respectable and short enough to be interesting.

I have met drunken ladies during my travels, it is okay until they vomit all over you!

When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.

Female monsters take things as personally as they really are. They study facts. Even if rejection makes them feel like the girl who's not invited to the party, they have to understand the reasons why.... Every question, once it's formulated, is a paradigm, contains its own internal truth. We have to stop diverting ourselves with false questions. And I told Warren: I aim to be a female monster too.