Lisa Kleypas Quotes

People try to make women a very specific thing so that we like them.

A woman can never be too rich or too thin, but until very, very recently, she could be too powerful, for which - if she wasn't smart enough to camouflage herself - she generally paid the price.

I think women have long been defined by their roles as procreators and wives, and we're expected to serve, take care of, say 'Yes,' and not ruffle any feathers. Women, in particular, are sometimes not allowed to consider who they are outside of the roles that they play.

That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

I think there are a lot of rules for women. We have a lot of expectations and a lot of rules for women. So we're expected to march in a straight line, and when we don't, all hell breaks loose.

Women are taught that if you want to be a lady, keep your opinions to yourself and be polite.

You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

On the whole, the experience that the activity of the soul obeys the law of least resistance has been verified even in regard to women's social morals. As a rule, these have been focused on the family and on charity - among other reasons, because woman's sense of duty seldom finds means of expression in other directions.

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

So much of the literature we had to read for high school English class was filled with victimized, tragic, symbolic women who spurred the plot forward with their inevitable shunning/death/shunning-followed-by-pregnancy-followed-by-death timelines.

Women are often expected to be more amiable or more pleasing or more submissive than men generally.

People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.

As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.

I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.

Women have to be pure and respectful.

Women love to be asked more about their clothes than their work. We're dolls; we made a wish to become alive.

In our world marriage was the best option for any woman. No girl ever chose to have a career unless she couldn't get a man. It was very much a tertiary life.

I think girls especially get so caught up in thinking like, 'Oh I have to be prim or proper or fun and sunshiny' when, like, you can be literally anything. You can be mannish; you can do whatever, and it's acceptable.

There's a great deal of tension between so many kind of distinctive and restrictive female archetypes and images in the world. When you play with the archetypes, you get free.

I think, a lot of times as women, we feel pressure from our parents, our friends: we see our friends get married.

I think, especially growing up in the South, we are taught that women are supposed to be soft, gentle and kind of just goes along with everything and is submissive.

There's something threatening about a woman who is not occupied with children... What sort of trouble will she make?

Women throughout history have had to defy rigid conventions about what is and is not expected of them.

I think that women should be decorative.