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Quotes About Woman

Like there was a waterfall at the edge of their world that a woman could be washed over, like an invisible Niagara in daily life. A vast high wall of boiling, misty water.
~ Sebastian Barry
Night took the faces of this man and woman and peeled them off like a question formed inside a fetal darkness mouth.
~ Selah Saterstrom
If you meet a woman of whatever complexion who sails her life with strength and grace and assurance, talk to her! And what you will find is that there has been a suffering, that at some time she has left herself for hanging dead.
~ Sena Jeter Naslund
What sort of woman would do that—give up her life so easily, sacrificing her freedom for her father's? The Beast wondered if he was capable of such a sacrifice. He wondered if he was capable of love.
~ Serena Valentino
Mi se pare ca aud rapaitul ploii pe c??tile deformate. Rapaitul metalic pe care-l auzi toat? ziua trebuie sa te înnebuneasc?, sa te împiedice sa gânde?ti, e ca o muzica ce interzice orice cugetare. Ca ?i cum o femeie cu unghii lungi ar bate darabana în ceva la infinit.
~ Serge Brussolo
Tek sad shvativši ironiju slu?aja, po?eh luda?ki da se smejem. Mene su, objekat provokacije Tamnih, sakrili u žensko telo! U Telo šefove ljubavnice, stare kao sabor Bogorodi?ne crkve u Parizu!
~ Sergei Lukyanenko
My dowry is thirty-five. A year." His brows climbed. "You're joking." "I would never joke about money with a notorious thief. Just imagine, in a mere two years you're at a profit." "How I adore a woman who does mathematics in her head." "I can forge signatures as well." "Splendid. Exactly the bride I've been hoping for.
~ Shana Abé
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a thirty-something woman in possession of a satisfying career and fabulous hairdo must be in want of very little
~ Shannon Hale
The woman gestured to a seat and put on a patient face. An impatient sort of patient face, like an impatient face dressing up as a patient one for Halloween.
~ Shannon Hale
It's a good thing you don't bring Lily in to the bar. If they see what a beautiful baby you made, we'll have to double our napkin orders." He propped his elbows on the bar so his face was very close to hers. "I can't make magic like Lily with any woman but you.
~ Shannon Stacey
When the reception was over I went for a walk and…she's pregnant." They were both quiet a moment, exchanging one of those old-married-people looks he still couldn't decipher, but which made him squirm. He and Beth were both adults, but that didn't make telling his parents he'd accidentally gotten a woman pregnant any easier. "Lot easier to walk with your fly zipped," Leo grumbled.
~ Shannon Stacey
I am the woman at the water's edge, offering you oranges for the peeling, knife glistening in the sun. This is the scent and taste of my skin: citon and sweet. Touch me and your life will unfold before you, easily as this skirt billows then sinks, lapping against my legs, my toes filtering through the rivers silt. Following the current out to sea, I am the kind of woman who will come back to haunt your dreams, move through your humid nights the way honey swirls through a cup of hot tea
~ Shara McCallum
Part of him wanted to throw her down onto the straw and have done with it. For there was no surer way of losing desire for a woman than to take your fill of her. But he sensed that Eleni might be slow to realise that her duty was to please her sheikh in every aspect that he demanded. His mouth curved into a smile. She would soon learn.
~ Sharon Kendrick
I love you, Robert Tate." Bud fingered her ring. "I love you, too. I think I'm going to rest now. Promise you won't go anywhere without me." "I promise." He closed his eyes. Holly lay facing him, burning every nuance of his misery into her brain. She was determined to remember, when she was in labor giving birth to their first child, that, for the love of his woman, he'd been the first to bear pain.
~ Sharon Sala
Vaheguru, forgive me, but a woman must choose the wisdom of lies over the dangers of truth.
~ Shauna Singh Baldwin
There is something threatening about a woman who is not occupied with children. There is something at-loose-ends feeling about such a woman. What is she going to do instead? What sort of trouble will she make?
~ Sheila Heti
The conversation went on for another half hour, before this man's girlfriend, who had not said much of anything until then, remarked, Being a woman, you can't just say you don't want a child. You have to have some big plan or idea of what you're going to do instead. And it better be something great. And you had better be able to tell it convincingly - before it even happens - what the arc of your life will be.
~ Sheila Heti
And another dark shadow on a dark lawn: the fact that for a woman of curiosity, no decision will ever feel like the right one. In both, too much is missing.
~ Sheila Heti
Oh! I must take my shoes off. Huh! Hell hath no fury like a woman's corns, has it?
~ Shelagh Delaney
I'd love to do a film with Mariah. But it would have to be a comedy. She's the funniest woman in the world, she just cracks me up all the time.
~ Nick Cannon
If a woman were about to proceed to her execution, she would demand a little time to perfect her toilet.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
I hope Barack Obama puts another woman on the Supreme Court. And this time, I hope it's a woman with kids.
~ Peter Beinart
As an actor, and especially as a young woman, there's so much pressure to look good all the time and it really detracts from what our job really is about, which is portraying a different person.
~ Emmy Rossum
An ugly woman cooks your meals on time, and she'll always treat you kind.
~ Jimmy Soul