“But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.”

— Gabriel García Márquez, book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

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Colombian writer 1927–2014

Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist

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“Aretha Franklin was tough. She turned out to be good, but she was, you know, she was -- she's a very -- she's a very wonderful, but in some ways, shy woman. You don't think about that when you see how she emotes and performs.”

Ed Bradley (1941–2006) News correspondent

[Larry King, Interview with Ed Bradley, http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0402/08/lkl.00.html, February 8, 2004, Larry King Live, CNN]

“Every woman is worth more when she learns to read.”

Ramon Llull (1232–1316) Majorcan writer and philosopher

Llull cited in: Lucie Hayes (2009) Frommer's 24 Great Walks in Barcelona. p. 47

“All of these battered husbands are still with their wives. When a woman stays with a man who batters, we provide shelters to encourage her to escape. If she decides not to escape, we say she is a victim of “Battered Woman Syndrome."”

Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate

Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000)

“She felt herself needing more and more sleep. When she awoke in the morning, she thought of when she might lie down again - and when she would sleep. She started going to the movies.”

Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist

Source: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

“She had read a wonderful play about a man who scratched on the wall of his cell and she had felt that was true of life — one scratched on the wall.”

Virginia Woolf book Mrs Dalloway

Source: Mrs. Dalloway

“A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.”

Joan Rivers (1933–2014) American comedian, actress, and television host

As quoted in Funny Ladies (2001), by B. Adler, p. 147

“What a valiant woman. She braves the two greatest kings by land and sea. If she were not a heretic she would be worth a whole world.”

Pope Sixtus V (1520–1590) pope

On Queen Elizabeth I of England, in 1587; reported in Colin Bingham, Men and Affairs: A Modern Miscellany (1967), p. 48.
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“When a woman marries she belongs to another man; and when she belongs to another man there is nothing more you can say to her.”

Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator

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This Business of Living (1935-1950)

“On second thought she hoped she never met a woman that attractive.. If she did, she would be morally obligated to run her over with her car.." Bride”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Night Play

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