For as men have fists and heads to defend themselves, so women have a gentleness of silence about them, a barrier built of things of the spirit, of pain, of quiet, of helplessness, of grace, of all that is beautiful and womanly an equal part, given t...
Because men are sentimental over women they will throw away military advantages, and hesitate and weigh the chances of failure when attack is their best or only hope, and lose their opportunity because they "have to think of the women and children". ...
I wonder, what kind of life would I have had if it hadn’t been for my mother’s tea-and-cookie parties? Perhaps it’s because of them that I’ve never thought of women as my enemies, as territories I have to conquer, but always as allies and fri...
..the hope I have for women: that we can start to see ourselves-and encourage men to see us-as more than just the sum of our sexual parts: not as virgins or whores, as mothers or girlfriends, or as existing only in relation to men, but as people with...
If you spend any amount of time doing media analysis, it’s clear that the most frenzied moral panic surrounding young women’s sexuality comes from the mainstream media, which loves to report about how promiscuous girls are, whether they’re acti...
Growing up seems easier for men, maybe because their rites of passage are clearer. They perform acts of bravery on the battlefield or show they're men through physical labor or by making money. For women, it's more confusing. We have no rites of pass...
She will try to find the nice way to exercise intelligence. But intelligence is not ladylike. Intelligence is full of excesses. Rigorous intelligene abhors sentimentality, and women must be sentimental to value the dreadful silliness of the men aroun...
Whenever women say good-bye they always hang around for a while.
He who follows advice from women will end up in hell.
Even the devil himself does not know where women sharpen their knives.
Go to friends for advice; to women for pity; to strangers for charity; to relatives for nothing.
The old dog barks while he is sitting down.
Talking of an old debt always starts another quarrel.
Young pigs grunt as old pigs grunted before them.
Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.
High climbers and deep swimmers never grow old.
If you want to be old, hang yourself when you are young.
The best way to learn to ride is on an old bike.
There is no nail varnish that can make old hands look younger.
Time heals old pain, while it creates new ones.
Better to wash an old kimono than borrow a new one.
