Quotes About Woman

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Oh Woman, come before us, before our eyes longing for beauty, and tired of the ugliness of civilization, come in simple tunics, letting us see the line and harmony of the body beneath, and dance for us. Dance us the sweetness of life. Give us again the sweetness and the beauty of the true dance, give us again the joy of seeing the simple unconscious pure body of a woman. Like a great call it has come, and women must hear it and answer it.

At times I am gripped by an absurd desire: that the sentence I am about to write be the one the woman is reading at that same moment. The idea mesmerizes me so much that I convince myself it is true: I write the sentence hastily, get up, go to the window, train my spyglass to check the effect of my sentence in her gaze, in the curl of her lips, in the cigarette she lights, in the shifts of her body in the deck chair, in her legs, which she crosses or extends.

as long as I know there is a woman who loves reading for reading's sake, I can convince myself that the world continues....

If the cavaliere, heading toward the pirate ship, meant to reach this Zaira, she must be a woman who was there in those Ottoman countries. Maybe his whole life had been dominated by longing for that woman; maybe she was the image of lost happiness that he pursued by raising bees or designing canals.

A little later, Raimbaut reins his horse in the town square. "Have you seen a knight pass?" "Which? Two have passed and you're the third." "One rushing after the other." "Is it true one isn't a man?" "The second is a woman." "And the first?" "Nothing." "What about you?" "Me? I'm . . . I'm a man." "Thanks be to God!

What a brave man she was, and what a good woman.

Alick. What is Charm, exactly, Maggie? Maggie. Oh it's - it's a sort of bloom on a woman. If y ou have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.

But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Éowyn I am, Éomund's daughter. You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless! For living or dark undead, I will smite you, if you touch him.

All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But... I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death.

The power of a woman was different, he decided: sly, fearless, changeable as the moods of the sea, but he knew instinctively that that was the power against which his own would be measured.

aterriza allí donde una vez su espíritu tuvo cuerpo, pero ella, mujer de acuarela, ya no es sólida.

driving through West Virginia, I heard a woman announce that she was looking to sell a house, 16 acres, a bowling ball, and a sequin dress slit up the side.

She could drive down Hadley Road until she reached the right spot, then walk in. Would have to drive by the reservoir. She didn't drive that road anymore. But even if she could, she wasn't going to chase some imaginary dead man, or almost dead man, around the countryside.

I'll have ye yet, woman, he growled, reveling in the role of marauding pirate.

A vision washes over my mind. Elena's innocent face, inches away from mine, her arms tight around my neck. Somewhere, a dragon is roaring, flecks of hot spittle twirling past in yellow clouds. The silhouette of a woman wavers in the haze—death incarnate.

The viewer I picture in my mind when I do 'The Kelly File' is a woman who's had a long day, either with the kids or at work, or both.

My mom was truly an iconic figure, a great journalist and a pioneering woman who died at 54 of cancer without ever having revealed to viewers that she was ill.

The idea that just because you are a woman you should be supporting Hillary Clinton I think is false. There is a broad base of political views.

I think my movies are very much about the female gaze... But it's not going to happen magically if you're a woman. It's still something you have to deconstruct, but it's not something you have to be vigilant about.

I'll always identify with the image of a strong woman. I believe that in what I do and in my sense of self, there's a vindication of women. There's power.

When I was little, I went to the Sahara desert and met an older woman with beautiful earrings that came all the way down to her stomach. She told me, 'For us Tuareg, jewelry is not meant for decoration. It absorbs negative energy that comes your way.' So think twice when you buy a vintage ring!

I am just like a common woman who love shopping in Sarojni Nagar and Janpath. I am the one who shops on Indian street, in malls of Dubai and even vintage stores of London and New York.

There's an order to life: God in Christ, Christ in man, man over woman, and woman over children. When this order is broken or violated, you have 'hell' on earth.