"For men, the answer was always the same and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know."

Gender, Motherhood, Challenge, Life

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"It's ridiculous " a girl steps out, goes dancing, gets her hair cut, decides to spend the summer in Italy and it's a scandal. A chap does it and no one bats an eyelid."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

Gender, Society, Freedom, Scandal

"Oleanders have attractive flowers, they decorate nature beautifully, but they are poisonous; and a woman is an oleander; it's all right to watch her once in a while, but then you must walk away without touching her; if you ever try to taste her even once, you'll head for hell!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"Most often women want happiness and men want wilderness."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

Gender, Women, Perception, Identity, Observation

"Men as a class appear to be 'at risk, ' maybe even at high risk."

Richard Rohr, American Theologian

Gender, Risk, Society, Identity

"And a woman by herself is missing a man, while a man by himself is his own master. Trousers. That's the secret. Trousers and a pair of socks. I never dreamed it was like this. Put on trousers and the world changes. We walk different. We act different. I see these girls and I think: Idiot's Get yourself some trousers!"

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Gender, Power, Truth, Today, Inspirational

"A man's shortcoming lies in the belief that he must always assert his manliness. A woman's shortcoming lies in the belief that she must always repress it."

Kamand Kojouri, Iranian Poet

Gender, Identity, Masculinity, Femininity

"Women are binding and men are commanding."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Gender, Women, Binding, Men, Commanding

"I'll never forget the first time Davram took me by the scruff of my neck and showed me he was the stronger of us. It was magnificent! If a woman is stronger than her husband, she comes to despise him. She has the choice of either tyrannizing him or else making herself less in order not to make him less. If the husband is strong enough, though, she can be as strong as she is, as strong as she can grow to be."

Robert Jordan, American Author

Gender, Strength, Marriage, Power, Respect

"Women often forget that the man she is complaining about is a creation of a mother like her."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Gender, Women, Mother, Creation, Understanding

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"A man should smell of sweat, not flowers."

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"There was an agelessness about him, a stillness; on Roose Bolton's face, rage and joy looked much the same."

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"Hatred does not stir the stone men half so much as hunger."

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"Torches just blind you. On a clear night like this, the moon and the stars are enough."

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"It's ridiculous " a girl steps out, goes dancing, gets her hair cut, decides to spend the summer in Italy and it's a scandal. A chap does it and no one bats an eyelid."

"Oleanders have attractive flowers, they decorate nature beautifully, but they are poisonous; and a woman is an oleander; it's all right to watch her once in a while, but then you must walk away without touching her; if you ever try to taste her even once, you'll head for hell!"

"Most often women want happiness and men want wilderness."

"When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women."

"Men as a class appear to be 'at risk, ' maybe even at high risk."

"A man's shortcoming lies in the belief that he must always assert his manliness. A woman's shortcoming lies in the belief that she must always repress it."

"Women are binding and men are commanding."

"Women often forget that the man she is complaining about is a creation of a mother like her."

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"Never drink with Dornishmen when the moon is full."

"Well, the drums gave me headaches, the sunlight flashing on my armor cooked me up like harvest day, and those magnificent destriers shit everywhere."

"A man should smell of sweat, not flowers."

"There was an agelessness about him, a stillness; on Roose Bolton's face, rage and joy looked much the same."

"Hatred does not stir the stone men half so much as hunger."

"Flies are the dead man's revenge."

"Torches just blind you. On a clear night like this, the moon and the stars are enough."

"Words are like arrows, Arianne. Once loosed, you cannot call them back."

"His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin."

"Shall I prick my prick as well?"