The really expert riders of horses let the horse know immediately who is in control, but then they guide the horse with loose reins and very seldom use the spurs. So it was with our chief [William Rehnquist]. He guided us with loose reins and used the spurs only rarely to get us up to speed with our work.
During the Q&A periods after my speeches, it is the men who say to me, "Help me understand how I am going to balance my work and my family. " Now, let me tell you why I believe they see it that way. Because when they look around the room, they see the women who are going to be in their lives, the choices they will have for a spouse. And they realize that these women are educated, ambitious, and have every intention of having careers of their own.
What our men and women in uniform are doing is providing for the Iraqi people and other surrounding nations the opportunity to see, to taste and to experience the democracy that equals freedom and ultimately justice.
Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life.
Wifehood and motherhood. . . are a bigger handicap than the average male genius would. . . essay to carry to success.
What do women want? A guy they can't drive crazy. There aren't many around. But they try. They can't help it, it's their nature.
I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
Men give the same lines to different women for the same reason women wear the same perfume for different men; we all try the things that work.
Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
And before you barrel through some idiotic Cosmo girl list of how-well-do-you-know-your-man questions, let me say that I don't know squat about him except that he kisses like a god and screws like a devil.
It's funny - my wife is more jealous of my books than of other women because I'm always working and thinking about my books.
. . . black women write differently from white women. This is the most marked difference of all those combinations of black and white, male and female. It's not so much that women write differently from men, but that black women write differently from white women. Black men don't write very differently from white men.
One of the things Jesus did was to step aside from the organized religion of his time because it had become corrupt and bogged down with rules. Rules became more important than feeding the hungry.
Let's choose today to quench our thirst for the 'good life' we thinks others lead by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives. We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts.
There are a lot of women like me in the world, and we rarely get to see ourselves.
The man, or the boy, in his development is psychologically deterred from incorporating serving characteristics by an easily observable fact: there are already people around who are clearly meant to serve and they are girls and women. To perform the activities these people are doing is to risk being, and being thought of, and thinking of oneself, as a woman. This has been made a terrifying prospect and has been made to constitute a major threat to masculine identity.
Old women can see through walls.
During the 19th-century struggle for womens rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.
A woman will sometimes forgive the man who tries to seduce her, but never the man who misses an opportunity when offered.
He stole horses' you'll say to yourself, 'and he didn't care for women; and but for my pride I'd have been with him now.