Quotes of: Old-women Keyword

When I want to explain why empowering girls and women is critical to fighting poverty, I often tell a person's story. It's easier to relate to a personal story than to global data telling us that the majority of the billion people who live on less th...

Helene D. Gayle

I grew up in Long Island City. When I was growing up, my parents owned a women's clothing store in Queens. It was for older women. I got my bras there, until I realized I didn't want those huge, taupe bras. Everything was beige, with massive amounts ...

Jessica Valenti

There have been women who stumbled across Feministing randomly, through a bizarre Google search or something, and had no idea what feminism was. They thought it was something older women do, or bought into the hairy bra-burning man-hating stereotype ...

Jessica Valenti

Younger women tend to be busier, wearing more layers and more make-up. I don't know if it's because older women are more confident, or just that we don't care any more. But that pared-down approach is the same with the sentences I write; I take out a...

Tracy Chevalier

The Bible speaks of the Word of God as added. Sometimes it's planted by the wayside, and nothing grows there. Sometimes it's sown among the thorns and represents the person who makes the decision an then goes back to his old life of bars and chasing ...

Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II

Amy hated--hated--the way the grown-ups her parents had surrounded themselves with were so quick to offer prayers and so low to actually do anything. Old women who barely left the house for anything but bingo and congratulated themselves on never dri...

This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It

While much psychology emphasizes the familial causes of angst in humans, the cultural component carries as much weight, for culture is the family of the family. If the family of the family has various sicknesses, then all families within that culture...

Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

Unlike old-fashioned Britain, where Tony Blair recruited Lord Levy to encourage his 'Friends of Israel' to donate their money to a party that was just about to launch a criminal war, in America Alan Greenspan provided his president with an astonishin...

The Wandering Who? A Study of Jewish Identity Politics

Alvy Singer: In 1942 I had already discovered women. [Young Alvy kisses girl in school] Alvy's Classmate: Yecch. He kissed me, he kissed me. Yecch. Miss Reed: That's the second time this month. Step up here. Alvy at 9: What'd I do? Miss Reed: Step up...

Annie Hall

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.

Ninon de L'Enclos

The stereotypes really play into what kinds of companies women can get funded for.

Anita Borg

Women have this obsession with shoes.

Alexandra Paul

Women have a predestination to suffering.

Bela Lugosi

Half of my employees are women.

Christie Hefner

A man is old when he takes the whole night to do what he used to do all night long.

Chinese

Your five year old son is your instructor; at ten your slave; at fifteen your equal and after that either friend or foe.

Turkish

Old wives' tales have hurt cats. They're not true! Who are those Old Wives?

The Complete Cat's Meow: Everything You Need to Know about Caring for Your Cat

Though everyone in the bar knew who he was, no one asked him about the death, though one old man did rustle his newspaper suggestively.

Death at La Fenice

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Jesus is supposed to be the Alpha and the Omega, but in the Bible he's neither. He's stuck in the middle like the letter Q.

Five Times More Jesus: Why Christians Should Decanonize the Old Testament