Sylvia Plath Quotes

I'm a woman who was raised to believe that you are not complete unless you have a man. Well, in some ways it's true. I am a feminist to a point. But I'm not going to deny the fact that I love to be with men.

I've always maintained that men were more romantic than women.

No, I'm not! I'm not a tomboy! I love my makeup! That's not true! I'm not a tomboy!

A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?

You know, God, the power that makes life, whatever it is, had just to make two things, masculine and feminine, for all this mischief. And made them so there is this entirely different point of view about love and sex.

What war is to men so maternity is to women.

Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!

A woman can't teach a man how to be a man. But she can teach you how to nurture, how to care, how to love, and how to give.

The demands of having to be 'masculine' are as damaging to men as the demands of having to be 'feminine' are to women. I wish we could all agree just to wash it all away. Begin again.

'Hanna' has grown up in wilderness. It highlights humanness and animal-ness in humans. She has an interesting take on gender and love.

I suppose I'm quite manly in lots of ways, but I like to be made to feel like a woman.

Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy.

Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more.

Thus, gender ideology no only creates ides about femininity but it also shapes conceptions of masculinity.

You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women.

For the courage of self-sacrifice, woman is any time superior to man, as I believe man is to woman for the courage of the brute.

scarcely a human being in the course of history has fallen to a woman's rifle; the vast majority of birds and beasts have been killed by you, not by us. Obviously there is for you some glory, some necessity, some satisfaction in fighting which we have never felt or enjoyed.

I just think that culturally, women - we're all human beings - but at least we don't have our masculinity to prove.

I want you to love me. I want you to trust me enough to let me love you, and I want you to stay here with me so we can build a life together. That's what I want

Men, gay or straight, can get beauty and lewdness into one image. Women are forever softening, censoring, politicizing. ?

You cannot forget about your femininity. You don't have to compete with men in that respect.

I want you to be yourself, but not with other dudes.

Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.

You know?" he repeated. She smiled, so he kissed her. "You're not the Han Solo in this relationship, you know." "I'm totally the Han Solo," she whispered. It was good to hear her. It was good to remember it was Eleanor under all this new flesh. "Well, I'm not the Princess Leia," he said. "Don't get so hung up on gender roles," Eleanor said.” ... “You can be Han Solo," he said, kissing her throat. "And I'll be Boba Fett. I'll cross the sky for you.

A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated." - from 'Cows in Art Class