Life Quote by Rebecca Traister

“Were we women always destined to appear as we were not, as long as we were standing next to our husbands?”

— Melanie Benjamin

“But she had never known that a man could want a woman and not take her because he did care. There was something very…

— Mary Jo Putney

“What kind of a modern woman was she, if she didn’t reach for her own dream? Maybe it was time to sweep the man…

— Tessa Dare

“People made no sense to her. Men, with whom she had everything in common, did not want her around. Women, with whom she had…

— Philipp Meyer

“What must it be like to sit among women with the same animating vitality? To build vast empires and heretofore undreamt worlds? To control…

— Anonymous

“It was realisation, in a moment of time, not only of her own possibilities, far from inconsiderable ones, but also of other possibilities that…

— Anthony Powell

“Men, it seemed to me in those days, were uniquely honored by the stories that erupted in their lives, whereas women were more likely…

— Carol Shields

“It did not seem possible, much as he craved the comfort of a woman of intelligence, of humor and balance and perception.”

— Julie Powell

“These characters might not have wed, but their lack of husbands constrained and defined them, just as surely as marriage would have. They”

— Rebecca Traister

“Well, at heart I knew she'd never be a normal woman. And I didn't want her to be one, because what I loved in…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“He was of that generation of men who simply accepted the mystery of womanhood, who made no effort to try to understand their wives,…

— Andrew Porter

“Indeed, a convent was a kind of early think tank for women, since it was the preferred choice of intellectuals wanting to escape marriage.”

— Magnus Flyte