There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, 'Ahhhh!'
Why can't a woman be more like a dog, huh? So sweet, loving, attentive.
I've never been the kind of woman that hates other women, particularly based on their attractiveness.
A worthy woman personifies the truly noble and worthwhile attributes of life.
Never in my life have I been captivated by by anybody onscreen the way I was when I saw Audrey Hepburn for the first time. She's everything a woman should be.
Since St. Augustine announced that Eve - and, hence, collective woman - was responsible for original sin, rabid sexism has been a major pillar of patriarchal religious tradition.
At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of.
Behind each woman rises the austere, sacred and mysterious face of Aphrodite.
I just feel like a Filipina, a Filipino woman, and it just so happens that when I was growing up, I was very much an Australian, and I think you can be both.
I was raised by a woman who was her true and authentic self. So I feel like it's very important to put on for people who aren't that confident or people who don't realize the value in self-love.
If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.
If I am to truly become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian.
The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
There is a part of me that will forever want to be walking under autumn leaves, carrying a briefcase containing the works of Shakespeare and Yeats and a portable chess set. I will pass an old tree under which once on a summer night I lay on the grass with a fragrant young woman and we quoted e.e. cummings back and forth.
In the West, anything that must be hidden is suspect; availability and honesty are interlinked. This clashes irreconcilably with Islam, where the things that are most precious, most perfect and most holy are always hidden: the Kaaba, the faces of prophets and angels, a woman's body, Heaven.
The day will come - and it is not far off - when the legacy of Lincoln will finally be fulfilled at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, when a black man or woman will sit in the Oval Office. When that day comes, the most remarkable thing about it will be how naturally it occurs.
The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs.
Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.
