"We speak of the masculine and the feminine, but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matter of poetry versus intellectualization."

Gender, Feminine, Poetry, Intellect, Balance

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"We speak of the masculine and the feminine, but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matter of poetry versus intellectualization."

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"Women most often have a difficult enemy and she is a woman and not a man."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Women are binding and men are commanding."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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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

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"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

"All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

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"Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"...Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"The problem is not that Women think, the problem is that they think that they THINK!"

Ramana Pemmaraju, Indian Physician

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"What a queer topsy turvy world it was. It used to be the man who went to the wars, the woman who stayed at home. But here the positions were reversed."

Agatha Christie, English Writer

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"What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,' and, 'What a man is is an arrow into the future and a what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

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"Then I realized the vital necessity of art. Human life, yes, you nurse people, you clean house, you market, but then comes the moment of solace and flight. i sit and write and summon other friends, other forms of life, other experiences, and the voyage and the exploration, the delving into character, the vast expanse of life's possibilities and potentialities, contemplation of future travels, of dazzling friendships, all this then makes the chores and the sacrifices beautiful because they are diverted toward some beautiful aim, they become part of the structure of a work of art."

Creativity

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."

Love

"I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced."

Fear

"Dreams are necessary to life."

Life

"It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it."

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"It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all."

Identity

"All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished."

Mystery

"June, you have killed my sincerity too. I will never again know who I am, what I am, what I love, what I want. Your beauty has drowned me, the core of me. You carry away with you a part of me reflected in you. When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. You are the woman I want to be. I see in you that part of me which is you. I feel compassion for your childish pride, for your trembling unsureness, your dramatization of events, your enhancing of the loves given to you. I surrender my sincerity because if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madness."

Passion

"And in his eyes he had the look of the cat who inspires a desire to caress but loves no one, who never feels he must respond to the impulses he arouses."

Mystery

"When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow."

Wisdom