Top 61 Contemporary Women Quotes
#1. Women's studies needed a syllabus and so invented a canon overnight. It puffed up clunky, mundane contemporary women authors into Oz-like, skywriting dirigibles. Our best women students are being force-fed an appalling diet of cant, drivel and malarkey.
Camille Paglia
#2. Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.
Camille Paglia
#3. Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.
Camille Paglia
#4. ...forever meant different things to people at different times. They could imagine what infinity looked and felt like as much as they wanted, but could never truly grasp its meaning nor bear its full weight.
Roy L. Pickering Jr.
#5. The many faces of intimacy: the Victorians could experience it through correspondence, but not through cohabitation; contemporary men and women can experience it through fornication, but not through friendship.
Thomas Szasz
#6. Nothing felt better to him than the act of waiting for her. As long as he believed it wasn't in vain, he was able to justify his presence.
Roy L. Pickering Jr.
#7. What could I offer the local bad boy except my livelihood? Oh, I know. My body or my planes! Why didn't I think of that? Would you have preferred that I offer him my body, Nic, because I sure as hell wasn't going to sign over either of my planes!
Sharon K. Garner
#8. Consider yourself warned, Frankie. Something about these mountains convinces previously sane women to give up Starbucks for saddle sores.
Roxanne Snopek
#9. Many ancient (and contemporary) societies considered the sexually awakened female
as both auspicious and dangerous.
Srinivasan
#10. Whew," he said. "You clean up good. You don't look like the same girl."
She frowned right before she laughed. "Do women usually thank you for saying things like that?
Robyn Carr
#11. I wanted to be ready.
I had thought I was ready.
I really believed I was ready.
That is, until the milk came.
Kathryn Michaels
#12. For some reason, people try to fill you with food when you're filled with grief. I didn't need food. I needed a reason to keep living
Priscille Sibley
#13. Basically I'm pretty sure my mom thinks a well-thought-out list has the power to make time her personal bitch.
Susan Ranelle Amari
#14. If a woman were elected president, would our nation expect her husband to be the official White House host?
Venita Ellick
#15. THE HONEYEATER story was mesmerizing: the story took hold of me and I felt compelled to write it. I was also inspired by a few female authors (among them, Doris Lessing and Isabel Allende) I've admired over the years
women who preceded me and who gave me the courage to even begin.
Yolanda A. Reid
#17. We're all princes and princesses, at 5, 50, or 100! It's never too late, we're never too old to rock the world and contribute! Reaching for intimacy in all relationships? Delicious.
Pamela Taeuffer
#18. Self-growth does not always mean that we've changed. It means that we've stopped listening to what others say we 'ought' to be doing and finally live our lives according to our own values.
Anthea Syrokou
#19. Rumor has it: when you marry a Walsh you are set for life. Only one thing can screw it up.
Jessica Gordon
#20. Humph! A text message that said, 'What's up, sexy?' You call that setting a mood? Love making takes place long before the bedroom -
N. Wood Lane
#21. Me having a stalker is like Donald Trump having a sense of humility. It's not a match.
~From LIBERTY & MEANS
Kristin Dow
#22. I made a mistake. Men and women can't be friends. Statistically, impossible. One of the friends is always a little in love with the other or at least sexually attracted to them, and sex ruins friendships.
Codi Gary
#23. People vote for whom they believe will be the best president and representative for our country. The First Lady is not on the ballot.
Venita Ellick
#25. I have to tell you hon, I don't mind a little teasing now and then, but I'm no masochist and I'm sure as hell no saint ... here lately, being around you is agony.
Jackson Broussard
#26. Listen up, Nic," she said firmly, looking straight into his gray-blue eyes. "If you die on me out here, so help me I'll hold seances and pester you. I won't give you a moment's peace in the hereafter," she threatened in a fierce whisper. Gabrielle O'Hara, River of Dreams
Sharon K. Garner
#27. It was almost as if she had willed him into existence, into standing before her at the precise moment she was willing to accommodate him, arriving not a minute too early or too late.
Roy L. Pickering Jr.
#28. Long historical books get written by women, but not contemporary experiments, which still seems to be a very male-dominated field.
Eleanor Catton
#29. Innocence invites protection, yet we might be smarter to protect ourselves against it ...
Megan Johns
#30. Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the slaves of history and not its makers ... Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.
Angela Carter
#31. It's not a bad thing, if you're responsible about it. Just don't start having boyfriends. Wait until you've found your husband."
"And how am I supposed to find a husband if I can't have a boyfriend until then?" I asked ironically.
Zack Love
#32. A writer looks at an issue and asks, 'What if this were to occur? Or what if that was thrown into the mix? What would that look like?
Venita Ellick
#33. And although he recognized that tenderness was not the same as passion, and certainly not equivalent to love, for now it seemed to him a suitable substitute.
Roy L. Pickering Jr.
#34. I think one of the reasons I've done so much period work is because I feel so depressed by how society chooses to represent women in contemporary work.
Romola Garai
#35. I couldn't hear anything or anyone, there was only the sound of our sex and the smell of books.
Juliet Gauvin
#36. I once heard this statement that women marry men hoping to change them, while men marry women hoping they'll never change.
Cindi Madsen
#38. No matter how many women I've kissed over the years, your lips are the ones that still haunt me.
Cathryn Fox
#39. He shook his head. The next time I hear a women going on about how neurotic men are, I'm going to remember this. You tell me you like my body, and what do I say? I say, thank you. Then I tell you I like yours and what do I hear? A long lists of grievances.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#40. You're pretty low maintenance, as women go."
"I am, am I?" She sounded amused.
"Yeah. Like a cactus.
Roxanne Snopek
#41. Most people surrendered fairy tale hopes in exchange for cookie cutter lives
Roy L. Pickering Jr.
#42. She unzipped her oversized flannel onesie, created especially for women not interested in finding a man, and tossed it on the bed.
Kishan Paul
#43. His fierce appreciation of female beauty, the unrelenting desire he felt for their company, the pleasure he both derived and sought to give, had led him in and out of quite a few bedroom doors.
Roy L. Pickering Jr.
#44. Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life."
Patricia Briggs.
Demetra Angelis Foustanellas
#45. There are few subjects that match the social significance of women's education in the contemporary world.
Amartya Sen
#46. Before novels written by women were relegated to their own 'genre,' I was introduced to Jane Smiley by a dear professor who raised my awareness of what female authors were bringing to the table of contemporary fiction.
Emma McLaughlin
#47. The backlash convinced the public that women's 'liberation' was the true contemporary American scourge - the source of an endless laundry list of personal, social, and economic problems.
Susan Faludi
#48. Girls fell all over him. Guys bought him beers.
... Women eager to say they've been Zaned. You know there're T-shirts that say I've been ZANED.
Robin Bielman
#49. Is a First Lady truly a necessity? Shouldn't each wife of a president have a right to choose to accept the position or not?
Venita Ellick
#50. Men are born with a great asset of weak memory, especially for the bad moments. It's not the same with women though. Good or bad, they would keep the memories intact like permanent data in ROM.
Mita Jain
#51. Two old women described as "Charmed meets The Golden Girls with a little Bewitched thrown in for fun" were bound to have something curious to contribute.
Tracy March
#52. You are you because you love the way the world looks through your camera. You are you because of the way you love your friends and family. Not because some scar is on your body. That's a part of your history and what helps form what you believe in. not what defines you.
A.M. Willard
#53. If a woman chooses to support her husband and become First Lady, I believe she must do so with the understanding that the public expects the full-meal deal.
Venita Ellick
#54. Most of my writer friends are women, and they're all extremely talented, so of course I think the state of contemporary fiction for women is pretty great. Which is to say there is a ton of amazing work out there. These women are writing hard. There's much to be said. We're on it, chief.
Jami Attenberg
#55. 'Once Upon a Time', 'Mirror Mirror' - those shows and films focus on women and their conflict with one another. What the heck is going on in contemporary fairy tales? Women are not dominating the world; they are not evil.
Jack Zipes
#56. The male tax?"
"Yeah. The tax that men have to pay for not having to menstruate every month. Or risk getting pregnant. Or deal with the physically stronger sex in a macho world ... Women have to put up with all that stuff, so the least we men can do is pay the male tax and get the tab.
Zack Love
#57. My mother clutches at the collar of my shirt. I rub her back and feel her tears on my neck. It's been decades since our bodies have been this close. It's an odd sensation, like a torn ligament knitting itself back, lumpy and imperfect, usable as long as we know not to push it too hard.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#58. Sarah, I'm going to take care of you whether you like it or not.
Robyn Carr
#59. No aspect of our contemporary lives has been untouched by women's work.
Dyllan McGee
#60. I'm making out with a dead girl in my dreams. I'm screwing women I have no business screwing. I'm pushing away the one person who actually gives a damn about me. It's like the Bermuda Triangle of heartache and I'm sinking fast.
Faith Sullivan
#61. So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.
Donna Leon
