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Quotes About Woman

She makes her picture clear and attractive, no matter how unjust she is.
~ Ron Chernow
Mary Surratt, who ran a boardinghouse where Booth colluded with other conspirators, went down in historical annals as the first woman ever executed by the federal government.
~ Ron Chernow
The most unbearable type of anger is a woman's—do anything to avoid it.
~ Lee Child
A brave woman is one who stands up when she hears gunshots. She doesn't dive under the desk.
~ Lee Child
The woman led us into a living room. A decent-sized space. Expensive furniture and rugs. A big TV. No stereo, no books. It all looked a bit halfhearted. Like somebody had spent twenty minutes with a catalog and ten thousand dollars.
~ Lee Child
The woman bent decorously at the knees and laid her briefcase and her stack of papers on the floor. Ratcliffe took a step forward and said, "You three were brought here under false pretenses, obviously. But we didn't want a lot of fanfare. A little misdirection was better. We want to avoid attention, if we can. At least at the beginning." And
~ Lee Child
A woman officer," I said. "Maybe fairly senior. Someone with permanent access to her own Humvee. Nobody signs out a pool vehicle for an assignation like that. And she's got his briefcase. She must have.
~ Lee Child
In Jalalabad it was half past four in the afternoon. Tea was being served in the white mud house. The new messenger had been brought to the small hot room. She was a woman. Twenty-four years old, long black hair, skin the color of tea. She was wearing a white explorer shirt, full of loops and pockets, and khaki pants, and desert boots. She was standing at attention in front of the two men, who were sitting on their cushions. The
~ Lee Child
All I need's a fight and a woman. Then I'm set. I get the fight I'll get the money. I get the money I'll get the woman. There's some women that love you for yourself, but that don't last long.
~ Leonard Gardner
Each and every Indian, man or woman, child or Elder, is a spirit-warrior.
~ Leonard Peltier
Woman's power lies in man's passion, and she knows how to use it, if man doesn't understand himself. He has only one choice: to be the tyrant over or the slave of woman.
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
I have never felt more ridiculous. If this is what it means to be a woman I am not the slightest bit interested.
~ Libba Bray
Isn't this what happens in the movies a lot? There's some old dude or woman who tells your fortune and is all, 'Oh, you're gonna die or make a boatload of money or meet a girl. Now give me all your cash'?" Boz yammered. Mrs. Smith bristled. "I can tell your fortune right now without even consulting your palm." "You can?" "Yes. You are an idiot. You will always be an idiot.
~ Libba Bray
The fact that Kristi was an attractive young woman had nothing to do with his enthusiastic speculations, he told himself.
~ Lilian Jackson Braun
Let's look at one such creative counterpart described many years ago in the book of Proverbs. There are many outstanding, godly women mentioned throughout the Bible, but this woman received special praise: Many daughters have done well, But you excel them all (Proverbs 31:29). Who was this woman who did more than Deborah, the military adviser, or Ruth, the woman of constancy, or Esther, the queen who risked her life for her people? She was a wife and mother like you and me!
~ Linda Dillow
He'd never thought he would love any woman, least of all an Anglo, but that was before this slight, delicate creature had bulldozed her way into his life and completely changed it.
~ Linda Howard
bathroom, moving like a woman in a trance.
~ Linda Lael Miller
Luke stood up, assessed the water tank next to the tub, and shook his head in good-natured amazement. "What a contraption. Makes a man wonder what they'll invent next, doesn't it?" "I wouldn't know," Charity answered, exasperated and bone weary. "I'm not a man." He laughed. "No, indeed, Mrs. Shardlow, you are pure woman and that is a fact.
~ Linda Lael Miller
This place," Sophie said, looking around at the ranch-house kitchen the next morning, "needs a woman's touch. Or maybe a crack decorating crew from HGTV or DIY.
~ Linda Lael Miller
Her name was Cassiana Clara.
~ Lindsey Davis
when she'd feared they hadn't rescued a woman after all, but only a shell of one.
~ Lisa Gardner
I'm not a police officer. I'm not a private investigator. I have no special skills or training. I'm only me. An average, middle-aged white woman with more regrets than belongings, more sad stories than happy ones.
~ Lisa Gardner
The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.
~ Clara Zetkin
It's patriarchal society that has freed me as a woman.
~ Camille Paglia