Style Quotes

We've searched our database for all the quotes and captions related to Style. Here they are! All 100 of them:

β€œ
You know, Minister, I disagree with Dumbledore on many counts...but you cannot deny he's got style...
”
”
J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5))
β€œ
If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.
”
”
Terry Pratchett (Lords and Ladies (Discworld, #14; Witches, #4))
β€œ
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
”
”
Maya Angelou
β€œ
Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style.
”
”
R.L. Stine
β€œ
I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.
”
”
Robert Frost
β€œ
Fashion changes, but style endures.
”
”
Coco Chanel
β€œ
I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. Movies show you the pink house. A good book tells you there's a pink house and lets you paint some of the finishing touches, maybe choose the roof style,park your own car out front. My imagination has always topped anything a movie could come up with. Case in point, those darned Harry Potter movies. That was so not what that part-Veela-chick, Fleur Delacour, looked like.
”
”
Karen Marie Moning (Darkfever (Fever, #1))
β€œ
The best teachers impart knowledge through sleight of hand, like a magician.
”
”
Kate Betts (My Paris Dream: An Education in Style, Slang, and Seduction in the Great City on the Seine)
β€œ
On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
”
”
Thomas Jefferson
β€œ
Why change? Everyone has his own style. When you have found it, you should stick to it.
”
”
Audrey Hepburn
β€œ
Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
”
”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
β€œ
You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.
”
”
Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita)
β€œ
The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.
”
”
Henry Green
β€œ
Omit needless words.
”
”
William Strunk Jr. (The Elements of Style; How to Speak and Write Correctly)
β€œ
I've always loved high style in low company.
”
”
Anita Loos
β€œ
Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.
”
”
Agatha Christie (The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1))
β€œ
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, an initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea. Oh when? About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer. You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.
”
”
Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita)
β€œ
True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.
”
”
Nicole Richie
β€œ
Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.
”
”
Martin Amis
β€œ
You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.
”
”
Agatha Christie (The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1))
β€œ
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn
”
”
Orson Welles
β€œ
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
”
”
Stendhal (Love)
β€œ
They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra, just for you. But they were fucked up in their turn By fools in old-style hats and coats, Who half the time were soppy-stern And half at one another's throats. Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, And don't have any kids yourself.
”
”
Philip Larkin (High Windows)
β€œ
make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty.
”
”
Jon Krakauer (Into the Wild)
β€œ
It only takes a second to call a girl fat and She'll take a lifetime trying to starve herself.. think before you act.
”
”
Harry Styles
β€œ
In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.
”
”
Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest)
β€œ
If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.
”
”
Dorothy Parker
β€œ
It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.
”
”
Charles Bukowski
β€œ
A dream is only a dream.. until you decide to make it real
”
”
Harry Styles
β€œ
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
”
”
Gore Vidal
β€œ
A real girl isn't perfect and a perfect girl isn't real.
”
”
Harry Styles
β€œ
Hide-and-seek, grown-up style. Wanting to hide. Needing to be sought. Confused about being found.
”
”
Robert Fulghum (All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things)
β€œ
There was this about vampires : they could never look scruffy. Instead, they were... what was the word... deshabille. It meant untidy, but with bags and bags of style.
”
”
Terry Pratchett (Monstrous Regiment (Discworld, #31; Industrial Revolution, #3))
β€œ
Age is just a number, maturity is a choice." -Harry Styles
”
”
One Direction
β€œ
Why did the mushroom go to the party? Because he's a fungi!
”
”
One Direction (One Direction: Forever Young: Our Official X Factor Story)
β€œ
Everybody said, "Follow your heart". I did, it got broken
”
”
Agatha Christie
β€œ
Part of their problem was Percy. He fought like a demon, whirling through the defender's ranks in a completely unorthodox style, rolling under their feet, slashing with his sword instead of stabbing like a Roman would, whacking campers with the flat of his blade, and generally causing mass panic.
”
”
Rick Riordan (The Son of Neptune (The Heroes of Olympus, #2))
β€œ
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
”
”
Pablo Picasso
β€œ
Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.
”
”
Agatha Christie (The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1))
β€œ
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
”
”
Yves Saint-Laurent
β€œ
My first real crush was... Louis Tomlinson.
”
”
Harry Styles
β€œ
Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.
”
”
Mrs. Oliphant
β€œ
Create your own style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
”
”
Anna Wintour
β€œ
I don't think you can define love.
”
”
Harry Styles
β€œ
It only takes a second for you to call a girl fat and she will starve herself for the rest of her life. Think before you act.
”
”
Harry Styles
β€œ
We have a choice..To Live or To Exist.
”
”
Harry Styles
β€œ
In character, in manner, in style, in all the things, the supreme excellence is simplicity
”
”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Favorite Poems (Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry))
β€œ
In the immemorial style of young men under pressure, they decided to lie down for a while and waste time.
”
”
Michael Chabon (The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay)
β€œ
And as for you, stop having curly hair!
”
”
Louis Tomlinson
β€œ
Never use the word β€œcheap”. Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them too). There is good clothing design on every level today. You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans β€” it’s up to you.
”
”
Karl Lagerfeld
β€œ
Kitsch is the inability to admit that shit exists
”
”
Milan Kundera
β€œ
California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.
”
”
Don DeLillo (White Noise)
β€œ
Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be an art Not many have style Not many can keep style I have seen dogs with more style than men, although not many dogs have style. Cats have it with abundance. When Hemingway put his brains to the wall with a shotgun, that was style. Or sometimes people give you style Joan of Arc had style John the Baptist Jesus Socrates Caesar GarcΓ­a Lorca. I have met men in jail with style. I have met more men in jail with style than men out of jail. Style is the difference, a way of doing, a way of being done. Six herons standing quietly in a pool of water, or you, naked, walking out of the bathroom without seeing me.
”
”
Charles Bukowski
β€œ
I'll say God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I'm not crazy about. I'm pretty much anti-death. God looks by all accounts to be pro-death. I'm not seeing how we can get together on this issue, he and I...
”
”
David Foster Wallace (Infinite Jest)
β€œ
Elegance is a glowing inner peace. Grace is an ability to give as well as to receive and be thankful. Mystery is a hidden laugh always ready to surface! Glamour only radiates if there is a sublime courage & bravery within: glamour is like the moon; it only shines because the sun is there.
”
”
C. JoyBell C.
β€œ
Check out that one at the end. He's taken the form of a footstool. Weird...but somehow I like his style." "That is a footstool.
”
”
Jonathan Stroud (The Golem's Eye (Bartimaeus, #2))
β€œ
When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.
”
”
William Glasser
β€œ
Don't choose the one who is beautiful to the world. But rather, choose the one who makes your world beautiful. -Harry Styles
”
”
Harry Styles
β€œ
So you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you've any sense at all you must have learned by now that we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.
”
”
Tom Robbins
β€œ
Let's go crazy, crazy, crazy 'til we see the sun. I know we only met but lets pretend its love. And never, never, never stop for anyone. Tonight lets get some and live when we're young! β™«
”
”
One Direction
β€œ
We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.
”
”
Tom Stoppard (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead)
β€œ
I discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature. I discovered that I am not disciplined out of virtue but as a reaction to my negligence, that I appear generous in order to conceal my meanness, that I pass myself off as prudent because I am evil-minded, that I am conciliatory in order not to succumb to my repressed rage, that I am punctual only to hide how little I care about other people’s time. I learned, in short, that love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac.
”
”
Gabriel GarcΓ­a MΓ‘rquez (Memories of My Melancholy Whores)
β€œ
Teeth are always in style.
”
”
Dr. Seuss
β€œ
Blair liked to think of herself as a hopeless romantic in the style of old movie actresses like Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe. She was always coming up with plot devices for the movie she was starring in at the moment, the movie that was her life.
”
”
Cecily von Ziegesar (Gossip Girl (Gossip Girl, #1))
β€œ
Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. Once you understand the grammar of yoga; you can write your poetry of movements.
”
”
Amit Ray (Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style)
β€œ
She said it out loud, the words distributed into a room that was full of cold air and books. Books everywhere! Each wall was armed with overcrowded yet immaculate shelving. It was barely possible to see paintwork. There were all different styles and sizes of lettering on the spines of the black, the red, the gray, the every-colored books. It was one of the most beautiful things Liesel Meminger had ever seen. With wonder, she smiled. That such a room existed!
”
”
Markus Zusak (The Book Thief)
β€œ
An appreciative listener is always stimulating.
”
”
Agatha Christie (The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1))
β€œ
Yoga is not a religion. It is a science, science of well-being, science of youthfulness, science of integrating body, mind and soul.
”
”
Amit Ray (Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style)
β€œ
As honest as you can expect a man to be in a world where its going out of style.
”
”
Raymond Chandler (The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1))
β€œ
We all are so deeply interconnected; we have no option but to love all. Be kind and do good for any one and that will be reflected. The ripples of the kind heart are the highest blessings of the Universe.
”
”
Amit Ray (Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style)
β€œ
That's kind of a leap, but the Russian judge gave you a nine point five for style, so okay.
”
”
Rachel Caine (Glass Houses (The Morganville Vampires, #1))
β€œ
Introversion- along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness- is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology. Introverts living in the Extrovert Ideal are like women in a man's world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of who they are. Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we've turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform.
”
”
Susan Cain (Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking)
β€œ
Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the health. However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case in which, instead of tobacco, were carefully placed several mustaches, Adolphe Menjou style. I offered them politely to my friends: "Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?" Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.
”
”
Salvador DalΓ­ (DalΓ­'s Mustache)
β€œ
Seriously, who has monogrammed pajamas?
”
”
Rick Riordan (The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #5))
β€œ
You know I'll be Your Life Your Voice Your Reason To Be My Love My Heart Is Breathing For this Moment in Time I'll Find the words to say Before You leave me Today
”
”
One Direction
β€œ
So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern...Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.
”
”
George Orwell (1984)
β€œ
But I think the first real change in women’s body image came when JLo turned it butt-style. That was the first time that having a large-scale situation in the back was part of mainstream American beauty. Girls wanted butts now. Men were free to admit that they had always enjoyed them. And then, what felt like moments later, boomβ€”BeyoncΓ© brought the leg meat. A back porch and thick muscular legs were now widely admired. And from that day forward, women embraced their diversity and realized that all shapes and sizes are beautiful. Ah ha ha. No. I’m totally messing with you. All Beyonce and JLo have done is add to the laundry list of attributes women must have to qualify as beautiful. Now every girl is expected to have Caucasian blue eyes, full Spanish lips, a classic button nose, hairless Asian skin with a California tan, a Jamaican dance hall ass, long Swedish legs, small Japanese feet, the abs of a lesbian gym owner, the hips of a nine-year-old boy, the arms of Michelle Obama, and doll tits. The person closest to actually achieving this look is Kim Kardashian, who, as we know, was made by Russian scientists to sabotage our athletes.
”
”
Tina Fey (Bossypants)
β€œ
And I'd marry you, Harry. Because it rhymes.
”
”
Louis Tomlinson
β€œ
Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.
”
”
Agatha Christie (The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1))
β€œ
One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.
”
”
Karl Lagerfeld
β€œ
Think about a good memory, she whispers in my mind. Remember a moment when you loved him. And just like that, I do. "What did the fish say when it hit a concrete wall?" he asked me. We're sitting on the bank of a stream and he's tying a fly onto my fishing rod, wearing a cowboy hat and red lumberjack-style flannel shirt over a gray tee. So adorable. "What?" I say, he grins. Unbelievable of how gorgeous he is. And that he's mine. He loves me and I love him. "Dam!" he says.
”
”
Cynthia Hand (Unearthly (Unearthly, #1))
β€œ
Grover wore his fake feet and his pants to pass as human. He wore a green rasta-style cap, because when it rained his curly hair flattened and you could just see the tips of his horns. His bright orange backpack was full of scrap metal and apples to snack on. In his pocket was a set of reed pipes his daddy goat had carved for him, even though he only knew two songs: Mozart's Piano Concerto no. 12 and Hilary Duff's "So Yesterday," both of which sounded pretty bad on reed pipes.
”
”
Rick Riordan (The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1))
β€œ
I'd like to repeat the advice that I gave you before, in that I think you really should make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, Ron, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty. And so, Ron, in short, get out of Salton City and hit the Road. I guarantee you will be very glad you did. But I fear that you will ignore my advice. You think that I am stubborn, but you are even more stubborn than me. You had a wonderful chance on your drive back to see one of the greatest sights on earth, the Grand Canyon, something every American should see at least once in his life. But for some reason incomprehensible to me you wanted nothing but to bolt for home as quickly as possible, right back to the same situation which you see day after day after day. I fear you will follow this same inclination in the future and thus fail to discover all the wonderful things that God has placed around us to discover. Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon. You are still going to live a long time, Ron, and it would be a shame if you did not take the opportunity to revolutionize your life and move into an entirely new realm of experience. You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. It is in everything and anything we might experience. We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living. My point is that you do not need me or anyone else around to bring this new kind of light in your life. It is simply waiting out there for you to grasp it, and all you have to do is reach for it. The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances.
”
”
Jon Krakauer (Into the Wild)
β€œ
I think you have to take me for me. I am who I am.
”
”
Harry Styles
β€œ
Woah! Calm down, Curly!
”
”
Louis Tomlinson
β€œ
a real girl isnt perfect a perfect girl isnt real
”
”
Harry Styles (Dare to Dream: Life as One Direction (100% Official))
β€œ
A gentleman doesn't kiss and tell
”
”
Harry Styles
β€œ
Well, Vin says that there's something behind all this, right? Some evil force of doom or whatever? Well, if I were said force of doom, then I certainly wouldn't have used my powers to turn the land black. It just lacks flair. Red. Now, that would be an interesting color. Think of the possibilities--if the ash were red, the rivers would run like blood. Black is so monotonous that you can forget about it, but red--you'd always be thinking, 'Why, look at that. That hill is red. That evil force of doom trying to destroy me certainly has style.
”
”
Brandon Sanderson (The Hero of Ages (Mistborn, #3))
β€œ
People often ask me why my style is so simple. It is, in fact, deceptively simple, for no two sentences are alike. It is clarity that I am striving to attain, not simplicity. Of course, some people want literature to be difficult and there are writers who like to make their readers toil and sweat. They hope to be taken more seriously that way. I have always tried to achieve a prose that is easy and conversational. And those who think this is simple should try it for themselves.
”
”
Ruskin Bond (Best Of Ruskin Bond)
β€œ
It's not very easy to grow up into a woman. We are always taught, almost bombarded, with ideals of what we should be at every age in our lives: "This is what you should wear at age twenty", "That is what you must act like at age twenty-five", "This is what you should be doing when you are seventeen." But amidst all the many voices that bark all these orders and set all of these ideals for girls today, there lacks the voice of assurance. There is no comfort and assurance. I want to be able to say, that there are four things admirable for a woman to be, at any age! Whether you are four or forty-four or nineteen! It's always wonderful to be elegant, it's always fashionable to have grace, it's always glamorous to be brave, and it's always important to own a delectable perfume! Yes, wearing a beautiful fragrance is in style at any age!
”
”
C. JoyBell C.
β€œ
True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure - the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character's essential nature.
”
”
Robert McKee (Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting)
β€œ
Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.
”
”
Karl Lagerfeld
β€œ
I would make Harry my personal slave and would make him drive me places.
”
”
Liam Payne
β€œ
One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
”
”
Oscar Wilde
β€œ
We’re so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past, like ancient stars that have burned out, are no longer in orbit around our minds. There are just too many things we have to think about every day, too many new things we have to learn. New styles, new information, new technology, new terminology … But still, no matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone.
”
”
Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)
β€œ
It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style. They affect us just as vulgarity affects us. They give us an impression of sheer brute force, and we revolt against that. Sometimes, however, a tragedy that possesses artistic elements of beauty crosses our lives. If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are no longer the actors, but the spectators of the play. Or rather we are both. We watch ourselves, and the mere wonder of the spectacle enthralls us.
”
”
Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)
β€œ
So it's true what they say about warlocks, then?" Alec gave him a very unpleasant look. "What's true?" "Alexander," said Magnus coldly, and Clary met Simon's eyes across the table. Hers were wide, green, and full of an expression that said Uh-oh. "You can't be rude to everyone who talks to me." Alec made a wide, sweeping gesture. "And why not? Cramping your style, am I? I mean, maybe you were hoping to flirt with werewolf boy here. He's pretty attractive, if you like the messy-haired, broad-shouldered, chiseled-good-looks type." "Hey, now," said Jordan mildly. Magnus put his head in his hands. "Or there are plenty of pretty girls here, since apparently your taste goes both ways, Is there anything you aren't into?" "Mermaids," said Magnus into his fingers. "They always smell like seaweed." "It's not funny," Alec said savagely, and kicking back his chair, he got up from the table and stalked off into the crowd.
”
”
Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
β€œ
Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size But when I start to tell them, They think I'm telling lies. I say, It's in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me. I walk into a room Just as cool as you please, And to a man, The fellows stand or Fall down on their knees. Then they swarm around me, A hive of honey bees. I say, It's the fire in my eyes, And the flash of my teeth, The swing in my waist, And the joy in my feet. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me. Men themselves have wondered What they see in me. They try so much But they can't touch My inner mystery. When I try to show them They say they still can't see. I say, It's in the arch of my back, The sun of my smile, The ride of my breasts, The grace of my style. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me. Now you understand Just why my head's not bowed. I don't shout or jump about Or have to talk real loud. When you see me passing It ought to make you proud. I say, It's in the click of my heels, The bend of my hair, the palm of my hand, The need of my care, 'Cause I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.
”
”
Maya Angelou (Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women)
β€œ
The woman knows from living with the abusive man that there are no simple answers. Friends say: β€œHe’s mean.” But she knows many ways in which he has been good to her. Friends say: β€œHe treats you that way because he can get away with it. I would never let someone treat me that way.” But she knows that the times when she puts her foot down the most firmly, he responds by becoming his angriest and most intimidating. When she stands up to him, he makes her pay for itβ€”sooner or later. Friends say: β€œLeave him.” But she knows it won’t be that easy. He will promise to change. He’ll get friends and relatives to feel sorry for him and pressure her to give him another chance. He’ll get severely depressed, causing her to worry whether he’ll be all right. And, depending on what style of abuser he is, she may know that he will become dangerous when she tries to leave him. She may even be concerned that he will try to take her children away from her, as some abusers do.
”
”
Lundy Bancroft (Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men)
β€œ
You hand fits in mine like its made to be but bear this in mind it was meant to be and im joining up the dots with the freckles on you cheeks and it all makes sense to me. I know you've never loved the crinkles by your eyes when you smile you've never loved your stomach or your thighs and the dimples in your back at the bottom of your spine but I love them endlessly.I won't let these little things slip out of my mouth but if i do its you oh its you they add up to and Im in love with you and all your little thing. You can't go to bed without a cup of tea and maybe thats the reason that you talk in you sleep and all those conversations are the secrets that I keep though it makes no sense to me. I know you've never loved the sound of your voice on tape you never want to know how much you weigh you still have to squeeze into to your jeans but you're perfect to me. I won't let these little things slip out of my mouth but if its true its you its these they add up to and Im in love with you and all you little things. You'll never love yourself half as much as I love you and you'll never treat yourself right darlin' but I want you to if I let you know I'm here for you then maybe you'll love yourself like I love you ohhhhh. And I've just let these little things slip out of my mouth cause its you oh its you its you they add up to and Im in love with you and all your little things I wont let these little things slip out of my mouth but if its true its you its you they add up to and im in love with you and all your little things. <3
”
”
One Direction