Quote by Gabrielle Palmer

“Women were created from the rib of man to be beside him, not from his head to top him, nor from his feet to…

— Matthew Henry

“Even for healthy, low-risk women, the routine use of stirrups, restraining straps, shaving, episiotomies and forceps made the majority of births abusive experiences.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Lifting up his hand to her, he said, "Here, madam, take the hand, or rather, as I may say, the executioner of all earthy…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“These women accept their beatings with a simplicity worthy of all praise, and far from considering themselves insulted, admire the strength and energy of…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“I don’t get it. Scratch, bite, squeal, slap. Why do women fight like that? They’ve got fists. It’s embarrassing to our entire gender.”

— J.D. Robb

“when she removed my hand from her chest for the one hundred thousandth time. Attack and defense, invasion and repulsion... it was as if…

— Nick Hornby

“Flopping down in the chair I had been seating in only moments ago, I put my elbows on my knees and dropped my head…

— Jocelynn Drake

“Men, crumpled like bed-sheets in hospitals, And women, battered like overused proverbs.”

— Vladimir Mayakovsky

“The callous palms of the labourer are conversant with finer tissues of self-respect and heroism, whose touch thrills the heart, than the languid fingers…

— Henry David Thoreau

“And indeed, human beings in general are fond, even inordinately fond, of being trampled on, have you noticed that? But of women it's especially…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The naïve girl in me had been bitch-slapped into womanhood. I’d been razed by pain, grief, loss and suffering, and honed by lust, rage…

— C.J. Roberts

Let me tell you something: I salute womanhood worldwide, because women are exceptionally tough for enduring the misery of childbirth. I've cleaned hogs and…

— Phil Robertson