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Quotes About Woman

Drink chamomile tea to calm the spirit. Feed a cold and starve a fever. Read as many books as you can. Always choose courage. Never watch another woman burn. Know that love is the only answer.
~ Alice Hoffman
This was the purest instant he had ever experienced; the way he felt inside right then. If he had to be trapped in a forever he would choose this very moment. The black night, the few yellow leaves still clinging to the bare trees, the beautiful dark-eyed woman drinking whiskey, the way she gazed at him, the way she made him feel.
~ Alice Hoffman
When darkness falls, and the sky sifts down into the river, the woman who swims in its depths holds on to the side of the canoe that drifts toward her. She pulls herself into the boat, where a tall man is waiting in the fading light, for he is an expert in matters of light and darkness, a master of seeing through shadows. He spies her every time, even when the sky is murky an she is invisible to all other men's eyes.
~ Alice Hoffman
If a woman is in trouble, she should always wear blue for protection. Blue shoes or a blue dress. A sweater the color of a robin's egg or a scarf the shade of heaven.
~ Alice Hoffman
She's not a demon, she's a woman," my mother said sadly. "In this case, that's worse.
~ Alice Hoffman
É assim que se dá os primeiros passos neste mundo. Essas são as lições que é preciso aprender. Beba chá de camomila para acalmar o espírito. Se tiver uma gripe, se alimente direito. Se tiver febre, faça jejum. Leia quantos livros puder. Sempre escolha a coragem. Nunca assista outra a mulher queimar. Saiba que o amor é a única saída.
~ Alice Hoffman
I gave him a gentle uncomprehending look in return. I am a grown-up woman now; let him unbury his own catastrophes.
~ Alice Munro
I just think it would be beautiful,' she says. 'I think it would be beautiful if a woman could.
~ Alice Munro
I wanted to slap Miss Priss. Slap her hard. But I didn't do it. It always been this way with me. I'll call another girl bitch before you blink, but I don't like to hit a woman. I guess it always felt like too much of a man to do it. Strange enough. Strength always seemed to rob the girl out of me, so I always take care to keep it hid.
~ Alice Randall
Ruth had been a girl haunted and now she would be a woman haunted. First by accident and now by choice. All of it, the story of my life and death, was hers if she chose to tell it, even to one person at a time.
~ Alice Sebold
His presence made me feel self-concious: of my appearance, of the way I was sitting, of my movements and gestures...It was the behavior of a woman reacting to a man who attracts her.
~ Alice Steinbach
Remnants is an extraordinary gift…a kind of Rosetta Stone of the African American woman's soul – all the 'remnants,' the bits and pieces Rosemarie carefully saved, remembered, nurtured, in her ancestors, relatives and self coming together in this extremely useful compendium of wisdom, of sureness and insight that we will be able to use for generations to come.
~ Alice Walker
I also began to understand how alone woman is, because of her body.
~ Alice Walker
She noticed that other girls were falling in love, getting married. It seemed to produce a state of euphoria in them. She became unsure that her own way of living was as pleasant as she thought it was. It seemed to have an aimlessness to it that did not lead anywhere. Day followed day, and the calm level of her pleasures as a single woman remained constant. Certainly she never reached euphoria. And she wanted euphoria to add to the other good feelings she had.
~ Alice Walker
In our despair that justice is slow we sit with heads bowed wondering how even whether we will ever be healed. Perhaps it is a question only the ravaged the violated seriously ask. And is that not now almost all of us? But hope is on the way. As usual Hope is a woman herding her children around her all she retains of who she was; as usual except for her kids she has lost almost everything. Hope is a woman who has lost her fear.
~ Alice Walker
His eyes be sad and thoughtful. His face begin to look like a woman face.
~ Alice Walker
Only during courtship might a woman briefly gain the upper hand, as both Anne Boleyn and Jane Seymour did, but woe betide her if she did not quickly learn to conform once the wedding-ring was on her finger. The
~ Alison Weir
As for those who state that it is thanks to a woman, the Lady Eve, that man was expelled from paradise, my answer to them would be that man has gained far more through Mary than he ever lost through Eve.'
~ Alison Weir
Because, when it came down to it, power depended only on a woman's body not letting her down.
~ Alison Weir
Somewhere, a heavy, glass door sighs in its airlock and a woman approaching fifty sprints to get her fingers in the gap before it closes.
~ Allison Pearson
The mind, the heart, the womb. Those three are all threaded in a sacred dance. A woman's pelvis is like an hourglass with the capacity to tell time. It both creates and shelters life. When a mother's diet in insufficient, nutrients are pulled from her own teeth and bone. Women are built to be selfless.
~ Alyson Richman
That I have not yet met the right woman, and that there is no use my marrying unless I find someone I like as well as Emma,' I said. He laughed, though I did not know why. There was nothing very amusing in what I had said.
~ Amanda Grange
CLAIRVOYANT, n. A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron, namely, that he is a blockhead.
~ Ambrose Bierce
for St. Andrew, who testified upon one of that shape. In the algebra of psychology x stands for Woman's mind.
~ Ambrose Bierce