„Women. They are a complete mystery.“

— Stephen Hawking

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„Also, I do not like the companionship of women. They are petty and personal. They hang on to their mysteries and secrets, they act and pretend. I like the character of men better.“
— Anaïs Nin
„The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.“
— Virginia Woolf
„It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.“
— Keanu Reeves
„There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.“
— Susan B. Anthony
„The female body’s unbearable hiddenness applies to all aspects men’s dealings with women. What does it look like in there? Did she have an orgasm? Is it really my child? Who was my real father? Mystery surrounds women’s sexuality. This mystery is the main reason for the imprisonment man has imposed on women. Only by confining his wife in a locked harem guarded by eunuchs could he be certain that her son was also his.“
— Camille Paglia
„I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch … and all the time knowing that it is empty? This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order … by sitting on the mystery of life, and knowing themselves that there was no mystery.“
— Karen Blixen