Cities Quote by O. Henry

“Once there was a city of women.”

— Louise Carey

Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.

— George Eliot

“it is a fact that a man can be profoundly out of step with his times. A man may have been born in a…

— Amor Towles

“Every scholarly history that was written before 1920 was written by a man who had been taught by a man, whose thesis would be…

— Philippa Gregory

“what she did during her lifetime but in the meaning of her life, the inspiration she gave to others, particularly women, to search for…

— Andrew Morton

“Nearly all of the Nobodies he saw were men. Women, he thought, had so many more ways to connect themselves to the world--children, families,…

— Douglas Coupland

They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the…

— Anonymous

“Besides, when did you become an expert on men, miss hide-herself-away-in-the-study?”

— Sarah Jane Avory

“It's the story of the City of Women; of how it came to be, how it flourished, and how it was destroyed by a…

— Louise Carey

“He had a theory going about cities, that the dominant industry of the town filtered into every level of the place, from the architecture…

— Marcus Sakey

“We discussed ourselves a lot. But although we were women…we struggled to understand what a woman was. Our every move or thought or conversation…

— Elena Ferrante

“There were legions of her kind during the nineteen-thirties, women from the age of thirty and upward, who crowded into their war-bereaved spinsterhood with…

— Muriel Spark