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Quotes About Woman

Somewhere in the crowd a woman sobbed and collapsed in a faint. She was immediately carried out by two Boy Scouts who happened to be present, and who administered first aid to her in the rest-room, one of them hastily kindling a crackling fire of pine boughs by striking two flints together, while the other made a tourniquet, and tied several knots in his handkerchief.
~ Thomas Wolfe
Somebody's killing the moon, the goddess; some woman has apparently taken on the—what would the word be—goddess-hood and somebody's killing her. I think it's too late for her, and I don't know the circumstances, but she's got a child, a little girl. An infant, in fact, to judge by how close Venus was to the moon when we saw it." Here
~ Tim Powers
She was the kind of woman who always surprised you with the realization that she was just as lovely as you remembered, though it hardly seemed possible in her absence.
~ Tom Perrotta
I have always been a romantic; one of those who believes that a woman in pink circus tights holds all the secrets of the world.
~ Tom Robbins
A son ain't what a woman say. A son is what a man do.
~ Toni Morrison
A woman is an important somebody and sometimes you win the triple crown: good food, good sex, and good talk. Most men settle for any one, happy as a clam if they get two. But listen, let me tell you something. A good man is a good thing, but there is nothing in the world better than a good good woman. She can be your mother, your wife, your girlfriend, your sister, or somebody you work next to. Don't matter. You find one, stay there. You see a scary one, make tracks.
~ Toni Morrison
The idea of a wanton woman is something I have inserted into almost all of my books. An outlaw figure who is disallowed in the community because of her imagination or activity or status — that kind of anarchic figure has always fascinated me.
~ Toni Morrison
a girl has got to be a daughter first. She have to learn that. And if she never learns how to be a daughter, she can't never learn how to be a woman. I mean a real woman: a woman good enough for a child; good enough for a man - good enough even for the respect of other women.
~ Toni Morrison
A daughter is a woman that cares about where she come from and takes care of them that took care of her.
~ Toni Morrison
She was a tall woman with unfashionable hips and a long chestnut braid singing down her back.
~ Toni Morrison
The constantness, varietylessness, the sheer weight of sameness drove him to despair and froze his imagination. To be required to sleep with the same woman forever was a curious and unnatural idea to him; to be expected to dredge up enthusiasms for old acts, and routine ploys; he wondered at the arrogance of the female.
~ Toni Morrison
Either the pavement was burning or she had sapphires hidden in her shoes. K.D., who had never seen a woman mince or switch like that, believed it was the walk that caused all the trouble.
~ Toni Morrison
A kingdom woman does hard things, and sometimes having faith based on God's Word is the simplest yet toughest thing she will ever have to do.
~ Tony Evans
A godly woman's true adornment can't be bought at a department store or acquired in the beauty shop.
~ Tony Evans
I was chopping vegetables in the kitchen when I heard voices outside our front door – a woman's, bright as polished brass, and a man's, low and dark like the wood of the table I was working on. They were the kind of voices we heard rarely in our house. I could hear rich carpets in their voices, books and pearls and fur.
~ Tracy Chevalier
A moon shining a broken road oversea; a lone woman naked to her waist waits at the edge of moonlight; a shadow person watching for meaning somewhere.
~ Keri Hulme
Cuanto más inteligente sea una mujer menos tardará en establecer un compromiso con la naturaleza del hombre -Conde de Saint Germain
~ Kerstin Gier
BRODIE: Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned for SEGA.
~ Kevin Smith
Somewhere else," she said. "Better hurry," the woman on the right said. "Your boyfriend's been in the bathroom for a long time." "He's probably staring at his reflection in the mirror," Annie said. "I know the type," the woman replied. "You don't want to go to Wyoming with a man like that.
~ Kevin Wilson
She had many shortcomings, but perhaps that alone was what made her human. She may not have been a likeable person, but she was, in her own way, a woman to be loved and admired.
~ Khushwant Singh
As a young woman, when she had been beautiful and had worn her hair short and her clothes loose to conceal that fact, she had known all the signs of men and read them well enough that she had been successfully robbed only three times and raped once; but none of those had burned from her the hunger for empty spaces, strange cities, new oceans.
~ Kij Johnson
if you have to hide your hypersensitivity, are you really a "strong woman"?
~ Kim Gordon
How was she not the quintessential woman in our culture, compulsively pleasing others in order to achieve some degree of perfection and power that's forever just around the corner, out of reach? It was easier for her to disappear, to free herself finally from that body, to find a perfection in dying.
~ Kim Gordon
I'm going to get even, I swear I will. Mark my words, I'm a pregnant cranky woman with insomnia. I have time to plot my revenge.
~ Kim Gruenenfelder