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Quotes About Woman

Oh dark woman With a shawl and ribs I could have served him better With my shanties. But men do love the shimmer And so his ghost Is hacked in half between us The dark me and the dark you.
~ Edna O'Brien
I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind...
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
I'm sure as hell not going to fight over her. I got more interesting things to do than that. There's nothing more interesting than a woman, George. Not in this world.
~ Edward Abbey
The word for woman is Gy (pronounced hard, as in Guy); it forms itself into Gy-ei for the plural, but the G becomes soft in the plural like Jy-ei. They have a proverb to the effect that this difference in pronunciation is symbolical, for that the female sex is soft in the concrete, but hard to deal with in the individual.
~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come.
~ Anonymous
There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.
~ Anonymous
Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: But a woman who fears the Lord, She shall be praised. (Proverbs 31:30 Modern King James Version)
~ Anonymous
There came unto him [Jesus] a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat.
~ Anonymous
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
~ Anonymous
All wickedness is but little to the wickedness of a woman.
~ Anonymous
A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband.
~ Anonymous
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her.
~ Anonymous
And he said to the woman, Thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace.
~ Anonymous
Pride was not made for men, nor furious anger for them that are born of a woman.
~ Anonymous
And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof.And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman.
~ Anonymous
Birth takes a woman's deepest fears about herself and show her that she is stronger than them.
~ Anonymous
There was an old woman tossed in a blanket,Seventeen times as high as the moon;But where she was going no mortal could tell,For under her arm she carried a broom.Old woman, old woman, old woman, said I,Whither, ah whither, ah whither so high?To sweep the cobwebs from the sky,And I'll be with you by and by.
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe,She had so many children she didn't know what to do;She gave them some broth without any bread,She whipped them all soundly and put them to bed.
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
Let the woman into Paradise, she'll bring her cow along.
~ Anonymous: Russian
A dessert without cheese is like a beautiful woman with only one eye.
~ Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
There is a curious mental stimulus to a good but stupid woman in a bad man's badness. If she has a touch of the reformer in her, as most good women have, she soon becomes obsessed with the futile desire to save him from himself. And in seven cases out of ten her first step in doing so is to descend to his level. "Not
~ Anthony Berkeley
Trade and gambling and a woman occasionally - that was a mans life.
~ Anthony Burgess
Octavius was already married to a woman of whom history has recorded nothing except for her name, Ancharia.
~ Anthony Everitt
I've made some tea,' Judith Matheson said. Of course she had. She was the sort of woman who would always make tea no matter what the crisis. Lose your leg in a hideous industrial accident and she'd be there with a nice cup of Earl Grey.
~ Anthony Horowitz