Octavia Wallace

“The real thing that keeps men and women apart, is fear. Women blame men and men blame women, but the culprit is fear, women are afraid of one thing, men are afraid of a different thing; the fears of women have to do with losing while the fears of men have to do with not being good enough for something. One is loss, the other is insecurity. Men are innately more insecure than women and women are innately more needful of companionship than men. It's good for both men and women to be able to recognize and identify these fears not only within themselves, but within each other, and then men and women will see that they really do need to help each other. It's not a game, it's not a competition, the two sexes need one another.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“I have watched him as only a woman can watch a man upon whom her fate depends, but it has always been in vain.”
― Émile Gaboriau, File No. 113

“Now? I'm just another female faking orgasms to make a man not feel so inadequate.”
― Jess C. Scott, Kylie

“Cuz I can count on one hand the men who’ve loved me, not in the Biblical sense—I don’t have enough digits for that—but who have truly loved me.”
― Shannon Celebi, After Spring Comes