The girls said she was too cynical about love, but how could you not be On the surface, relations between men and women were all soft kisses and white gowns and hand-holding. But underneath they were a scary, complicated, ugly mess, just waiting to rise to the surface.
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J. Courtney Sullivan,
Commencement
Why women choose to dress like this on a regular basis baffles me. It weighs so much. And then they add those high shoes I will never understand Ladies, Rose commented
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Brandi Gillilan,
Wicked Fairy Tales: The Curvy Collection
There are women named Faith, Hope, Joy, and Prudence. Why not Despair, Guilt, Rage, and Grief It seems only right. ‘Tom, I’d like you to meet the girl of my dreams, Tragedy.’ These days, Trajedi.
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George Carlin,
Brain Droppings
God remains silent so that men and women may speak, protest, and struggle. God remains silent so that people may really become people. When God is silent and men and women cry, God cries in solidarity with them but doesn’t intervene. God waits for the shouts of protest.
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Elsa Tamez
I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.
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Bram Stoker,
The New Annotated Dracula
He knew one of the women well, and had shared his universe with her. They had seen the same mountains, and the same trees, although each of them had seem them differently. She knew his weaknesses, his moments of hatred, of despair. Yet she was there at his side. They shared the same universe.
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Paulo Coelho,
The Valkyries
When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men and women are approaching an inevitable doom: the consciousness of it should make us more kindly and considerate of each other. This feeling should make men and women use their best efforts to help their fellow travelers on the road, to make the path brighter and easier as we journey on. It should bring a closer kinship, a better understanding, and a deeper sympathy for the wayfarers who must live a common life and die a common death.
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Clarence Darrow,
The Essential Words and Writings of Clarence Darrow
Bad luck with women is a determined man’s road to success. For every affliction, he makes, out of indignation, yet another advancement in order to exceed the man that the woman chose over him. This goes to show that great men are made great because they once learned how to fight the feeling of rejection.
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Criss Jami,
Venus in Arms
I think women dwell quite a bit on the duress under which they work, on how hard it is just to do it at all. We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I’m not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that.
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Toni Morrison
God goes home at night in the bodies of faithful women.
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Summer Kinard,
Can’t Buy Me Love
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