Source: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
“Women are meant to be loved and not understood.”
Mumtaz (actress) (1947) Indian film actress
Mumtaz, November, 1970 (Filmfare, December 7, 2011) <br class="br">Quotes from Mumtaz <br class="br">Source: Best of Filmfare http://www.angelfire.com/celeb/mumtaz/spicerack.htm
“Women were meant to suffer; no wonder they asked for constant declarations of love”
Charles Bukowski book Post Office
Post Office (1971)
Context: Fay had a spot of blood on the left side of her mouth and I took a wet cloth and wiped it off. Women were meant to suffer; no wonder they asked for constant declarations of love.
“From the beginning of time,
in childhood, I thought
that pain meant
I was not loved.
It meant I loved.”
Louise Glück (1943–2023) American poet
Source: "First Memory", Ararat (1990)
Anita Sarkeesian (1983) American blogger
What It Feels Like to Be a Gamergate Target (ABC News, 2015)
“Very early, I understood that women were required to be other than what they were.”
Andre Dubus (1936–1999) Novelist, short story writer, teacher
Of Robin Hood and Womanhood.
Broken Vessels (1991)
Grace Paley (1922–2007) American writer and activist
"The Loudest Voice" (1959)
