Quotes of: Modern-woman Keyword

I better go," Carter squeezed me once more and stood, grabbing his wallet from the coffee table. "I need to hit up the lottery if I want to get you out of this mess. Will you let me buy a monkey if we win, though?" "Only if you buy me an island off t...

Preservation

She's a woman. Like a chameleon does, a woman quietly blends into all the parts of her life. Sometimes you can hardly tell she's there, she's so quiet going on about her business. Feed the baby. Muck the stables. Make soup from stones. Make a sheet i...

That Summer in Sicily: A Love Story

What I really love about them... is the fact that they contain someone's personal history...I find myself wondering about their lives. I can never look at a garment... without thinking about the woman who owned it. How old was she? Did she work? Was ...

A Vintage Affair

I am thinking about the way that life can be so slippery; the way that a twelve-year-old girl looking into the mirror to count freckles reaches out toward herself and that reflection has turned into that of a woman on her wedding day, righting her ve...

What We Keep

In our twenties we have conflicts. We think everything is either-or, black or white: we are caught between them and we lose all our energy in the conflicts. My answer, later on in maturity, was to do them all. Not to exclude any, not to make a choice...

A Woman Speaks: The Lectures, Seminars and Interviews of Anaïs Nin

When you weep, Jesus weeps with you. And together you enter into the dance of tears. The dance of tears with Jesus is a precious intimacy He shares only with those who have known deep suffering. In the dance of tears, Jesus shares your pain. He carri...

A Woman's Heart That Dances: Keeping in Step with God's Design for You

That's one of the problems with doing anything for a long time. Staying home, for instance. The longer you stay, the more you believe your identity is wrapped up in the people and things around you. You become trapped. It seems as if you fear change ...

Yoga Bitch: One Woman's Quest to Conquer Skepticism, Cynicism, and Cigarettes on the Path to Enlightenment

My friend Madea has "attitude" that comes with wisdom. Back in our teens and twenties, we thought we knew everything and made all those foolish mistakes. Then, when we got a little older, at thirty, we started getting these flashes of light, revelati...

Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life

A woman must choose her friends and lovers wisely, for both can become like a bad stepmother and rotten stepsisters. In the case of our lovers, we often invest them with the power of a great Mage - a great magician. This is easy to do , for if we bec...

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Once I dated a woman I only liked 43%. So I only listened to 43% of what she said. Only told the truth 43% of the time. And only kissed with 43% of my lips. Some say you can't quantify desire, attaching a number to passion isn't right, that the human...

Jeffrey McDaniel

Melvin Udall: I might be the only person on the face of the earth that knows you're the greatest woman on earth. I might be the only one who appreciates how amazing you are in every single thing that you do, and how you are with Spencer, "Spence," an...

As Good as It Gets

Vincent Hanna: What are you, a monk? Neil McCauley: I have a woman. Vincent Hanna: What do you tell her? Neil McCauley: I tell her I'm a salesman. Vincent Hanna: So then, if you spot me coming around that corner... you just gonna walk out on this wom...

Heat

King Arthur: I am your king. Woman: Well, I didn't vote for you. King Arthur: You don't vote for kings. Woman: Well how'd you become king then? [Angelic music plays... ] King Arthur: The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite ...

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Moses: You know it is death to strike an Egyptian? Joshua: I know it. Moses: Yet you struck him. Why? Joshua: To save the old woman. Moses: What is she to you? Joshua: An old woman. [Joshua was defending his Hebrew race] Egyptian guard: Lord Prince, ...

The Ten Commandments

Bithiah: Moses, do not enter! There is only sorrow here. Moses: Are you comforting it, my mother? I followed you here to find this woman Yochabe... [to Yochabel] Moses: You were the woman who was caught between the stones. Yochabel: Until you came. B...

The Ten Commandments

When, as happened recently in France, an attempt is made to coerce women out of the burqa rather than creating a situation in which a woman can choose what she wishes to do, it’s not about liberating her, but about unclothing her. It becomes an act...

Arundhati Roy

She'd always despised the whole other woman thing, but here she was, entertaining the possibility.

A Cry From The Deep

Intuition is the lifeblood of a woman and the essential character of a man."-Serena Jade

Charismatic Connection: The Authentic Soul Mate Experience

Is there any creature on earth as unfortunate as an ugly woman? (wonders Lady Catelyn Stark)

A Clash of Kings

An artist is like a woman who can do nothing but love, and who succumbs to every stray male jackass.

The Clown

It has always been preferable to attribute a woman's success to her beauty rather to her brains, to reduce her to the sum of her sex life.

Cleopatra: A Life