Quotes of: Independent-woman Keyword

Vaheguru, forgive me, but a woman must choose the wisdom of lies over the dangers of truth.

What the Body Remembers

Why is it honesty when a man speaks his mind and madness when a woman does?

When Christ and His Saints Slept

Bean felt a rush of sweet nostalgia for the woman who had introduced us to E. Nesbit and Edward Eager and Laura Ingalls Wilder...

The Weird Sisters

We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves.

Woman on the Edge of Time

Have you ever met someone for the first time, but in your heart you feel as if you’ve met them before?

When A Mullo Loves A Woman

That’s the last time I put you in charge of the tequila when we’re making margaritas

When A Mullo Loves A Woman

He might be too old for it, but I think I can bully him into literacy.

The Wet Woman

I have the superhero gift of invisibility. I must be invisible, because the woman I love doesn’t see me. I might as well be into Helen Keller.

Xazaqazax

Jacob glanced across at the woman. 'She'd have you for breakfast, mate.' 'Yeah,' Luca countered, 'maybe I want to be had for breakfast.

The Young Moon

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

Charles Kingsley

The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.

Ina May Gaskin

If you're a fat person - and especially if you're a woman - at all stages of your life you'll get abuse for it, so you have to work out a way of dealing with it. The best way is to be humorous about it - that defuses any tension.

Jo Brand

The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man - that is to say, the strongest and cleverest - is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person.

Lafcadio Hearn

But even with a character like Cary who is relatively outlandish, at the end of the movie he's in a place where I wouldn't have expected him to be - taking on the responsibility of a woman who is pregnant and who used to be his best friend's wife.

Neil LaBute

For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed ...

Nathaniel Philbrick

As a woman, and as somebody in the public eye, we always have to be ready for the red carpet and have the nicest outfit, work with the best makeup artist. While all that's nice, we're also human beings.

Sasha Grey

She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman.

Cloud Atlas

You can see where it was, years ago. Like an old woman who was once beautiful, but time has taken her beauty away.

City of Bones

The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.

The Feminine Mystique

The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.

The Feminine Mystique

No woman ever gets given a fur coat for good reasons; if it's not to keep her on her back, it's to get her off his.

Skin Lane