Quotes of: Independent-woman Keyword

He was such a great lover. He was so male, so thoroughly a man that she felt all the rewards of being his woman." (showing 0-0 of 0) (0.04 seconds)

Mi Carina - Diego's Wrath

I messed around once with a woman named Twice. But it won’t happen a third time.

The Merits of Marthaism, and How Being Named Susan Can Benefit You

I wanted to have a good relationship. One that's romantic and dramatic, like in the movies. But I finally became a woman at 17 and learned that men aren't really that simple.

Nana, Vol. 1

It was probably a damn sight easier than getting rid of a woman who had found something in him that he didn't have or he didn't care to give.

The Naked and the Dead

Because, good God, Lily Wellstone had the face of an angel, the body of a goddess, and the spirit of the devil glinting from her eyes. She was a woman worth losing his soul for.

Not Wicked Enough

I'm not going to accept your challenge. There will be no duel." "Why not? Because I'm a woman?" "No, because I've seen the way you spinsters handle a pistol. You'd shoot me dead where I stood.

A Night to Surrender

Your power as a woman, as a mother, is your medicine, and it saved you. Take your courage in that.

One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd

I know a woman loves me when she leaves me leftovers in the fridge from the date she went on the night before.

Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.

With the woman I loved, I wouldn’t change one second with her. No, I’d change all the seconds, and the thing I’d change is her.

Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.

If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband’s murder. 

Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.

Woman, I could drown in your love, but I’d much rather be strangled. More passionate, don’t you agree?

Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.

Tess was my first experience of a woman who had inhabited her weirdness, moved into the areas of herself that made her distinct from those around her, and learned how to display them proudly.

Lucky

But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.

Love in the Time of Cholera

It has become necessary for me to have this woman, so as to save myself from the ridicule of being in love with her: for to what lengths will a man not be driven by thwarted desire?

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

There was not one straight floor from the foundation to the roof; the ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust, that old woman might have told fortunes in them better than in grouts of tea;

Little Dorrit

He'd call me false and faithless and I've always had a weakness for those two words; next to cruel, they're the nicest words for a woman to hear, and not so hard to earn.

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Fools – in other words most people – imagine that it would be a wonderful achievement to be able to recover our youth; but those who know life are aware how little it would profit us. ("A Woman's Vengeance")

Les Diaboliques

Every family has one living patriarch or matriarch, the final arbiter and repository of ancient family history, and Nicole's Aunt Patti was the last woman standing.

The Laws of Gravity

They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were growing up; she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions.

To the Lighthouse

I have never met a woman, or man, who stated emphatically, "Yes, I have it all.'" Because no matter what any of us has—and how grateful we are for what we have—no one has it all.

Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

A woman keeps to home and family, and tends to matters inside the home. A man keeps to war games and tends to matters outside." A queen tends to both, I wanted to say, but did not. She would not understand.

Lady Macbeth