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1 " This tension-the idea that there is a right way to be a woman, a right way to be the most essential woman- is ongoing and pervasive. "
― Roxane Gay , Bad Feminist
2 " Sylvia quotes Dick as telling her: " I am afraid the demands of wifehood and motherhood would preoccupy you too much to allow you to do the painting and writing you want." Dick was sharp enough to understand that the bright flame that drew him to Sylvia disqualified her from his future. He would not allow Sylvia- or any woman- to outshine him. "
3 " Let me struggle like a woman- my strength lies in my weakness. - Milady "
― Alexandre Dumas , The Three Musketeers (The D'Artagnan Romances, #1)
4 " Brennan's inner jaguar roared to life then with the need to protect this woman- protect my mate, must protect my mate it snarled. "
5 " Then to give the kids a historical perspective, Chacko told them about the earth woman. He made them imagine that the earth - 4600 million years old - was a 46 year old woman- as old as Aleyamma teaacher, who gave them Malayalam lessons. It had taken the whole of earth woman’s life for the earth to become what it was. For the oceans to part. For the mountains to rise. The earth woman was 11 yrs old when the first single celled organisms appeared. The first animals, creatures like worms and jellyfish, appeared only when she was forty. She was over forty five - just 8 months ago - when dinosaurs roamed the earth. The whole of human civilization as we know it, began only 2 hrs ago in the earth woman’s life… "
― Arundhati Roy , The God of Small Things
6 " He had years of experience and training. She'd unraveled them in a week, and he was left at loose ends. This distraction, this madness of desire and yearning- it was everything a man in his position needed to avoid. On second thought, perhaps his senses hadn't been muddled. After all, they had been meticulously attuned to detect the slightest hint of peril.This woman- this beautiful, unbiddable, all-too-perceptive woman- was his personal embodiment of danger. She could ruin him. Destroy everything he'd worked to become.And she would do it all with a smile. "
― Tessa Dare , Do You Want to Start a Scandal (Spindle Cove, #5; Castles Ever After, #4)
