Behind closed doors Quote by Pat Conroy

“She couldn't see the obvious lines of definition, that the female identity could not allow itself to be invaded, perverted, and compromised by brutish…

— Philippe De Vosjoli

“Nature has given woman so much power that the law cannot afford to give her more.”

— Samuel Johnson

“Sometimes I began to wonder if she was taking vengeance on behalf of her ancestor women whom her ancestor men turned into sex slaves…

— S. A. David

“Whoever had set up this security system had somehow incorporated biological and man-made components. She’d heard such things theorized, but no one had even…

— H.L. Burke

“Is it my power ripening or the natural will of a man to want to control what he thinks is his? It didn’t matter.…

— Kenya Wright

“Consider, that no jewel upon earth is comparable to a woman of virtue and honor; and, that the honor of the sex consists in…

— Miguel de Cervantes

“The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down!”

— Dorothy Day

“afflicted with the worst female curse on earth, the need to mold myself to expectations.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

“If she had been in charge of designing the human race she would have gone about things differently. (A golden shaft of light through…

— Kate Atkinson

“And ’tis most evident and plain that simple Nature is the most harmless, inoffensive, and virtuous mistress. ’Tis she alone, if she were permitted,…

— Aphra Behn

“Femininity cloaked power and strength, made it more palatable, less threatening.”

— Anne Helen Petersen

“Will there ever be a time when it is not a curse to be born a woman? When we can do no more, than…

— Guy Gavriel Kay