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Quotes About Woman

traveling so far across the country with this large woman, not fat mind you, but broad in the shoulder and beam, and strong.
~ Louis L'Amour
What became of her?" "Her?" Buffalo furrowed his brow. "Let's see, now. She was the one
~ Louis L'Amour
For the record, I never described Lucy as overweight. I simply reported what she said. I have been very careful not to refer to any woman as old and fat.
~ Louis Sachar
the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself. -
~ Louisa May Alcott
By gentle words and silent acts of kindness, he had won her reverence and her trust, which now had deepened into woman's truest, purest love.
~ Louisa May Alcott
To be loved and chosen by a good man is the best and sweetest thing which can happen to a woman
~ Louisa May Alcott
Meg learned, that a woman's happiest kingdom is home, her highest honor the art of ruling it not as a queen, but as a wise wife and mother.
~ Louisa May Alcott
It was easier to try for your sakes than my own; a startled or surprised look from one of you, when I spoke sharply, rebuked me more than any words could have done; and the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy.
~ Louisa May Alcott
I may be strong-minded, but no one can say I'm out of my sphere now, for woman's special mission is supposed to be drying tears and bearing burdens. I'm to carry my share, Friedrich, and help to earn the home. Make up your mind to that, or I'll never go, she added resolutely, as he tried to reclaim his load.
~ Louisa May Alcott
You do not know him. He has no pity, and my defiance will but increase the excitement of the pursuit. I am solitary, poor and a woman; he powerful, rich and a man whom all fear. The world which rejects me though I am innocent will welcome him, the guilty, and uphold him.
~ Louisa May Alcott
She silently excepted his challenge to the tournament so often held between man and woman- a tournament where the keen tongue is the lance, pride the shield, passion the fiery steed, and the hardest heart the winner of the prize.
~ Louisa May Alcott
The average man is proof the average woman can take a joke," he said.
~ Louise Erdrich
Lo dice Sylvia Plath en sus diarios: «Soy ese tipo de mujer que, cuando empieza a llover [...], solo puede pensar en ventanas abiertas, ventanas de coche, ventanas de una segunda planta, ventanas por todas partes abiertas mientras la lluvia cae a raudales [...] echando a perder irremediablemente la madera, el papel de las paredes, los libros y los muebles».
~ Rosa Montero
Soy mujer y escribo. Soy plebeya y sé leer. Nací sierva y soy libre.
~ Rosa Montero
For woman was an intractable animal and she displayed her brute unreason nowhere more clearly than in her refusable to acquiesce in her own subjection.
~ Rosalind Miles
She appeared to be ageless the type that would continue, unchanging, until she was an old woman when she would suddenly become senile and die
~ Rosamunde Pilcher
Bilirsin biz kad?nlar?n ba?? an?larla döner; hayat?m?z boyunca yüzümüzü geçmiÅŸe dönüp geri geri yürürüz.
~ Rose Tremain
The Man went to sleep in front of the fire ever so happy; but the Woman sat up, combing her hair. She took the bone of the shoulder of mutton – the big fat blade bone – and she looked at the wonderful marks on it, and she threw more wood on the fire, and she made a Magic. She made the first Singing Magic in the world.
~ Rudyard Kipling
A churel is the peculiarly malignant ghost of a woman who has died in child-bed. She haunts lonely roads, her feet are turned backwards on the ankles, and she leads men to torment.
~ Rudyard Kipling
For three things my heart is disquieted; and for four that I cannot bear: For a woman who esteemeth herself a man; and a man that delighteth in her company; For a people whose young men are cut off by the sword; and for the soul that regardeth not these things.
~ Rudyard Kipling
And a woman is only a woman, but a good Cigar is a Smoke.
~ Rudyard Kipling
When a man does good work out of all proportion to his pay, in seven cases out of nine there is a woman at the back of the virtue. The two exceptions must have suffered from sunstroke. All kinds of magic are out of date and done away with, except in India, where nothing changes in spite of the shiny, top-scum stuff that people call civilization.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Una donna può perdonare l'uomo che ha rovinato tutto il lavoro della sua vita, se quest'uomo saprà darle amore; un uomo, invece, potrà perdonare chi ha distrutto il suo amore, ma non chi ha distrutto il suo lavoro. [La luce che si spense]
~ Rudyard Kipling