J Ruth

“A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.”
― Gloria Steinem

“No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.”
― Elizabeth Peters

“If you meet a woman of whatever complexion who sails her life with strength and grace and assurance, talk to her! And what you will find is that there has been a suffering, that at some time she has left herself for hanging dead.”
― Sena Jeter Naslund, Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer

“Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay in our mother's wombs, and then there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women.”
― Lemony Snicket