Quotes About Woman
Well!" the woman cried, offended. "See if I ever come to visit Genovia!" "No one wants you there," Lars informed her
~ Meg Cabot
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Sister Ernestine said something very nasty about how maybe Miss Simon didn't realize how unpleasant detention at the Mission Academy could be. I assured Sister Ernestine that if she was threatening corporal punishment, I would tell my mother, who was a local news anchor-woman and would be over here with a TV camera so fast, nobody would have time to say so much as a single Hail Mary. Sister Ernestine was pretty quiet after that.
~ Meg Cabot
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One of her best paintings, Woman Enjoying a Quick Snack at Starbucks, is hanging in their dining room.
~ Meg Cabot
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Woman," Michele said. "You look like you're calling from a cave. Tell me Texas hasn't retreated to the dark ages." "It's ahead of California, if you ask the sun, and everybody in the state," Caitlin said.
~ Meg Gardiner
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She is not so secure on her throne that she can risk offending her people's gods. No woman can be.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
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And so it is a truth universally acknowledged that a young woman in possession of vague symptoms like fatigue and pain will be in search of a doctor who believes she is actually sick .
~ Meghan O'Rourke
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But she would not think better of him just because he possessed the decency not to blackmail her. Refusing to take advantage of a woman should be a basic part of any man's character, and lauding him for it would be like commending someone for having lungs to breathe with.
~ Meljean Brook
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She tossed her long hair and it flapped down her back like a pirate's flag. She stood in about as awkward a manner as could be concieved. Utterly un-feminine – no man couldd have invented it.
~ Mervyn Peake
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His staff had shaken hands with her as though a woman was merely another kind of man. Fools! The seeds of Eve were in this radiant creature. The lullabyes of half a million years throbbed in her throat. Had they no sense of wonder, no reverence, no pride?
~ Mervyn Peake
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The emotional, loving, moody child had small chance of developing into a happy woman. Had she as a girl been naturally joyus yet all that had befallen her must surely have driven away the bright birds, one by one, from her breast. As it was, made of more sombre clay, capable of deep happiness, but more easily drawn to the dark than the light, Fuchsia was even more open to the cruel winds of circumstance which appeared to have singled her out for particular punishment.
~ Mervyn Peake
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Even the wealthiest professional woman can be brought down by being in a relationship where she longs to be loved and is consistently lied to. To the degree that she trusts her male companion, lying and other forms of betrayal will most likely shatter her self-confidence and self-esteem.
~ bell hooks
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Even the wealthiest professional woman can be "brought down" by being in a relationship where she longs to be loved and is consistently lied to. To the degree that she trusts her male companion, lying and other forms of betrayal will most likely shatter her self-confidence and self-esteem.
~ bell hooks
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She's a gray woman with gray sayings." "A crape-hanger.
~ Benedict Freedman
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she passed by the edge of the crowd, keeping a wide berth around a red-faced older woman who was shaking her fist in the air and shouting, "I want my country back!" When did people get so angry? Claire wondered.
~ Bentley Little
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I am Uhtred, son of Uhtred, and this is the tale of a blood feud. It is a tale of how I will take from my enemy what the law says is mine. And it is the tale of a woman and of her father, a king. He was my king and all that I have I owe to him. The food that I eat, the hall where I live, and the swords of my men, all came from Alfred, my king, who hated me.
~ Bernard Cornwell
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He sounded pathetic and he knew it, but he had been driven to this humiliation by love. A woman can do that. They have power. We might all say that the oath to our lord is the strong oath that guides our lives, the oath that binds us and rules all the other oaths, but few men would not abandon every oath under the sun for a woman. I have broken oaths. I am not proud of that, but almost every oath I broke was for a woman.
~ Bernard Cornwell
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I like to see a man obeying a woman, Father Pyrlig said as I fetched the loaf. Why's that? I asked. Because it means I'm not alone in this sorry world.
~ Bernard Cornwell
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I am Uhtred, son of Uhtred, and this is the tale of a blood feud. It is a tale of how I will take from my enemy what the law says is mine. And it is the tale of a woman and her father, a king. He was my king and all that I have I owe to him. The food that I eat, the hall where I live, and the swords of my men, all come from Alfred, my king, who hated me.
~ Bernard Cornwell
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Most folk consider that a woman aboard a ship brings nothing but bad luck because it provokes the jealousy of Ran, the goddess of the sea who will abide no rivals
~ Bernard Cornwell
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Beware the hatred of a woman.
~ Bernard Cornwell
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And you can use that sword, Weland Godfredson?" "As a woman can use her tongue, lord." "You're that good, eh?" Ragnar asked, as ever unable to resist a jest.
~ Bernard Cornwell
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To be discreet, '"he looked up to glare at Æthelflaed, "'chaste! Keepers of the home! Good! Obedient to their husbands!' Those are God's own words! That is what God demands of a woman! To be discreet, to be chaste, to be home-keepers, to be obedient! God spoke to us!
~ Bernard Cornwell
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You go back to your kitchen, woman.
~ Bernard Cornwell
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Your answer to the truth," I sneered, "is to threaten a woman with death?
~ Bernard Cornwell
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