Acceptance Quote by Janet Flanner

It wasn't that there weren't menfolk in my grandmother's stories. There were lots of them but they died young or were drifters and dreamers…

— Sue Hubbell

“The girls were taught by their mothers and grandmothers to look seriously upon life, to shun the frivolous, and to avoid giggling. With the…

— Frank Bird Linderman

“That day, instead, I saw clearly the mothers of the old neighbourhood. They were nervous, they were acquiescent. They were silent, with tight lips…

— Elena Ferrante

Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Who gave thee, O Beauty, The keys of this breast,-- Too credulous lover Of blest and unblest? Say, when in lapsed ages Thee knew…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Where did all the women come from? The supply was endless. Each one of them was individual, different. Their pussies were different, their kisses…

— Charles Bukowski

The sun enriched the old poles grandly... The mothers expressed all womanhood - the big wooden hands holding the child were so full of…

— Emily Carr

“In the moonlight David saw that Thoresby had become very peculiar indeed. Figs nestled among the leaves of beech-trees. Elder-trees were bowed down with…

— Susanna Clarke

“Daughters. They were sometimes as familiar and intimate as honeysuckles in bloom, but mostly daughters were mysteries. They lived in rooms you had long…

— Benjamin Alire Saenz

The Grecian ladies counted their age from their marriage, not their birth.

— Homer

I grew up in a village after the war, and in the village, there were almost only women.

— Svetlana Alexievich

There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul;…

— Anonymous