Edward John Trelawny Quotes
Women are like parasitical plants, casting their wild tendrils from one tree to another, till, swollen into tough cordage, they strangle those they embrace, and luxuriate in their decay.Edward John Trelawny
Quotes to Explore
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Great men marry great women.
Ilyasah Shabazz -
We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.
Irvine Welsh -
In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
Ida B. Wells -
The beautiful 1940s women were a strong influence for me.
Rachel Roy -
All the women in my family were superb cooks.
Randy Wayne White -
Your results are very quantifiable. And nobody can take those results away from you. They are yours... All of that, I think, is very good for women.
Abagail Johnson
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Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.
Malcolm de Chazal -
When I look back on my career, I go, 'This is really great, I've played so many different women.'
Lana Parrilla -
Men don't hear women.
Wanda Sykes -
I would love to walk into a mall and see more than two or three stores that cater to women who are a size 14 and up!
Yvette Nicole Brown -
We know what happens to little black boys that have no dads; we've heard that, we get it. But no one is really saying that young women who are born without fathers have real serious issues especially when their mother had no father and the mother has issues.
Karrine Steffans -
All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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You don't stop thinking about women just because your wife dies. It's terrible, but you know. I just want the hugs, the kisses. A kiss!
Ian McLagan Small Faces -
At some point, Dekteon saw, his own world had come close to such a religion, where women ruled and men died-but the road had taken a different turning. Now the hints of the ancient mystery remained only in songs. It was the men who were the masters. Maybe not for the better, and not for the worse, either. But all this was unimportant.
Tanith Lee -
Men tuned into women but not tuned into their own hurts usually retained the attitude that women needed special protection.
Warren Farrell -
Men give the same lines to different women for the same reason women wear the same perfume for different men; we all try the things that work.
Warren Farrell -
Women are not to be hit. They're to be hugged and caressed.
Charlie Sheen -
I'm not saying it's easy, and it's definitely harder for women. Because there is definitely a double standard about gorgeous older men, and it's different for older women.
Mary Steenburgen
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I definitely am drawn to strong females who are successful, smart women because I am a woman like that. I think it's important to portray those kinds of women on film and television.
Megalyn Echikunwoke -
Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture, so it's important to acknowledge that. Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.
Dee Dee Myers -
My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature. And can I do that alone? No. So there is a whole army of youth that can do it. So I suppose my mission is to reach as many of those young people as I can through my own efforts.
Jane Goodall -
Extremism is a complicated issue, but without addressing how it appeals to men and boys, we may be missing an important motivation and a way to address the problems in our towns and cities.
Deeyah Khan -
They see Hermione as someone who is not vulnerable, but I see her as someone who does have quite a lot of vulnerability in her personality.
Joanne Rowling -
Women are like parasitical plants, casting their wild tendrils from one tree to another, till, swollen into tough cordage, they strangle those they embrace, and luxuriate in their decay.
Edward John Trelawny