women-and-men

We are beautiful, but we are not weak, that old Geisha told her. Men should see us like supernatural beings. Everything is so open now. Women shave their legs in front of men, they eat with their mouth full, they drink side by side with them, they get drunk, they loose the whole essence of femininity. Being a work of art is painful, but nobody said it would be easy. To create and recreate yourself every single moment of your life, that takes commitment, passion, energy and faith.

How is it possible to live? Life is so hard?___ou must be harder than life, Firdaus. Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.___ut you are not hard, Sharifa, so how do you manage to live?___ am hard, terribly hard, Firdaus.___o, you are gentle and soft.___y skin is soft, but my heart is cruel, and my bite deadly.___ike snake?___es, exactly like a snake. Life is a snake. They are the same, Firdaus. If the snake realises you are not a snake, it will bite you. And if life knows you have no sting, it will devour you.

Man is the master of Woman" - this statement may have been a glorious fact of primitive life in the wild, but it is nothing but an obnoxious stain on psyche of the thinking humanity.

If only one generation takes action in raising their children as humans, rather than raising boys and girls, the future human civilization shall get rid of the sinister phenomenon of misogyny sooner than you can imagine.

We are diamonds in the roughThrough the thrust and toil, we come out strongWe are the breath of the earth,Our wombs tell of humanity's birthWe are seeds splattered on putrid soilsStill we sprout, through every stormWe are not here to survive,We are here to live...Inward and outwardIn the incandescence of our existenceYes, our voices may sometimes be brokenBut our spirit remains indestructible. We are women, unapologetically!

What else is as beautiful as a woman?

I figured a woman can't be understood the way a man can. Women have purposes men can't even imagine.

Mr Reichman was brilliant and very good at what he did, but he was still a man, and men rarely knew what decisions a woman had or hadn't made.

How odd it is that we judge a woman by her clothes and the place she eats lunch and the subjects she talks about with her colleagueson her coffee break, yet we don__ judge a man if he doesn__ grow his beard or if he works with women or speaks to them. Why do Saudi women allow subjugation to a man and adhere to men__ rules and conditions? Why did I?

I am going to stop mainlining my life force / Into your self-esteem: / Air pump girl blowing up boy rubber ball / You can stay flat and go nowhere by yourself

When women agree with me I always do the other thing

Now we really like to put people in boxes. As men, we do it because we don't understand characters that aren't ourselves and we aren't willing to put ourselves in the skin of those characters and women, I think, terrify us. We tend not to write women as human beings. It's cartoons we're making now. And that's a shame.

All beautiful women are murderers. You've probably heard it said before.

A strong woman builds her own world. She is one who is wise enough to know that it will attract the man she will gladly share it with.

I come across too much material on "how to make a man want you", "how to make a man commit", "how to make a man finally pop the question", "how to make a man take you seriously", "how to get into a man's emotions." And I laugh. My dear fellow women, enough! Do not busy yourselves with such things! Instead, fall in love with yourself!

A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.

A Jewish woman in exile in the 1930s is an antihero.

Women fuck us up, break our hearts, drive us mad, and yet we love them; because if we didn't, nothing would make sense.