Octavia Said Quote by Julia Quinn

“Indeed, she had started to wonder if her blessings might be in her daughters and their progeny rather than in her sons. There was…

— Elizabeth Chadwick

“So this morning--waking early, brooding on what Liz said last night--he wonders, why should my wife worry about women who have no sons? Possibly…

— Hilary Mantel

“There are lots of things sons shouldn’t imagine about their mothers, above all what it was like to become one.”

— Bauvard

“ You would be forgiven for thinking Alex Morningside was a boy. In fact, she would be the first to laugh at this, because,…

— Adrienne Kress

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of an heir.”

— Julia Quinn

“They claimed she had only a female child, so she wasn’t entitled to their late brother’s property.”

— Unoma Nwankwor

“Women are property,” he replied. “Your father was a fool to name you queen, to try to elevate women to more than what they…

— Morgan Rice

Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman.

— Andrea Dworkin

“When she was not persuading him that he was, like all men without a woman in their lives, utterly helpless, she indulged in an…

— Alanna Knight

“Mother always used to say, 'If you want to succeed in life, please the women. They are the real bosses. The men don't count.”

— P.G. Wodehouse

“That's something for me to consider. So what else can you tempt me with?" Breckenridge hid a wry smile; he'd guessed that, in common…

— Stephanie Laurens

“This is the first lesson, Rhea. Men think they create the empires, but both are born of women. You will be a mother of…

— Lauren J.A. Bear