And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age.
The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.
A young woman hiking alone in the mountains sounds dangerous. In the pre-cell phone era maybe it was, but I'll stop short of calling it foolish.
For when a woman is left too much alone, sooner or later she begins to think;- And no man knows what then she may discover.
When I look down at my pale, skinny body, I wonder why any woman would want to sleep next to it, let alone embrace it.
I have tried in my role of being one of the first women at Google, let alone the first woman to have a baby, to really try to set the tone that this is a great place to work for diversity reasons.
My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.
I just want to do a movie musical and then if I could do some recording stuff, that would be amazing! I would die a happy woman! I really would. It doesn't take much!
My grandmother was this amazing woman in the Dominican Republic who used to read tea leaves and palms. She would cure people in her neighborhood by going into her garden, plucking a couple of leaves, and brewing teas.
We're comfortable with women in certain roles but not comfortable with women expressing anger or fully accepting their power. The most daring question a woman can ask is, 'What do I want?'
Man makes his own destiny. Despite being a woman, she makes Man, a Gentleman.
There are those who seek the love of a woman to forget her, to not think about her.
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private ownership mostly, or out of it altogether.
The difference between a house and a home is like the difference between a man and a woman-- it might be embarrassing to explain, but it would be very unusual to get them confused.
A man will will never know a woman until he knows her work.
Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies.
If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape
A woman is a deep Ditch, said he, her House inclines to Death and her Paths unto the Devil
For the right woman? I'd like to think I'd do just about anything.
It is amazing what a woman can do if only she ignores what men tell her she can't.
