Quotes of: Modern-woman Keyword

Eventualities. A good woman can look far down the line and smell what is coming before a man even gets a sniff of it.

Foster

It’s only when we can work with something that brings out our strengths that we’re of any real use.

The Fifth Woman

Happiness is the pleasantest of emotions; because of this, it is the most dangerous. Having once felt happiness, one will do anything to maintain it, and losing it, one will grieve.

The Fox Woman

She was a tall woman with unfashionable hips and a long chestnut braid singing down her back.

God Help the Child

A woman who loves books has a dreamer's soul, with each story she has read woven into her own.

The Garden of Letters

It was a boyish thing to do and it caught the hesitating girl in the depths of her heart, as the boy element in a man ever appeals to a motherly woman.

A Girl of the Limberlost

a guitar store is the only place in the known universe where a guy will allow himself to shop like a woman

Guitar: An American Life

And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.

A Guide to Men

Such a woman is called "Mother's FRIEND" always ready to give judicious Parental advice and living vicariously on the experience of others

Games People Play

Wine is the refined jewel that only a grown woman will prefer to the sparkling trinkets adored by little girls.

Gourmet Rhapsody

Woman must come of age by herself -- she must find her true center alone.

Gift from the Sea

Lucky for you, since you’re the most dangerous man I’ve ever met. A sane woman would run away from you, not toward you.

Heart of Atlantis

A woman only needs one pair of shoes for an outfit. But God, you've got to get it just right.

Hitler Burns Detroit

Bones just stared. "You're not a woman," he said finally. "You're the Grim Reaper with red hair!

Halfway to the Grave

When something needs to be said, you look for a man to say it. But when something needs actually to be done, you look for a woman.

The Blue Djinn of Babylon

On the scale of relevance, public approval or disapproval of a woman's choices should not merit measure.

Bad Feminist: Essays

When a man takes good care of the woman, she takes care of his competitors.

Better to be able to love than to be loveable

It was about a girl who helps an ugly old woman who turns out to be a good fairy in disguise. Inner values versus shallow appearances.

Bellwether

Could anyone fully understand the wonders of how a baby develops in the womb of a woman? This is the mystery about birth. Birth is by divine power of God.

Beautiful Quotes

She said she had learnt one thing from Balzac: that a woman's beauty is a treasure beyond price.

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

[T]he definition of 'crazy' in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to fuck her anymore.

Bossypants