Quotes of: Woman-president Keyword

For you see, the face of destiny or luck or god that gives us war also gives us other kinds of pain: the loss of health and youth; the loss of loved ones or of love; the fear that we will end our days alone. Some people suffer in peace the way others...

When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace

But can I say, now that she is dead, long dead that I only half believed in her. I wanted, I needed her to revolt. I know, revolutions take vast energy like volcanic eruptions. I know. And the sick must husband their resources even as they are resour...

The Woman Upstairs

I needed them, sure, and we can all argue about the moment when the balance tipped and I needed them so much that I would hurt. But you can't pretend they didn't need me too, each in his or her way. They wouldn't necessarily have admitted it - except...

The Woman Upstairs

We've come a long way from the time when the crowning achievement in a woman's life was her youthful marriage. And many would agree that this represents progress for women. But when did the search for someone to marry become self-absorbed and patheti...

Why There Are No Good Men Left: The Romantic Plight of the New Single Woman

When I met a truly beautiful girl, I would tell her that if she spent the night with me, I would write a novel or a story about her. This usually worked; and if her name was to be in the title of the story, it almost always worked. Then, later, when ...

Roman Payne

The first treatise on the interior of the body, which is to say, the treatise that gave the body an interior , written by Henri De Mondeville in the fourteenth century, argues that the body is a house, the house of the soul, which like any house can ...

Mark Wigley

It's not very easy to grow up into a woman. We are always taught, almost bombarded, with ideals of what we should be at every age in our lives: "This is what you should wear at age twenty", "That is what you must act like at age twenty-five", "This i...

C. JoyBell C.

It's definitely difficult being a woman and growing up a girl. When you're graceful, people say you lack personality; when you're serene, people say you're boring; when you're confident, people say you're arrogant; when you're feminine, people say yo...

C. JoyBell C.

Griffin Hansbury, who was born female but underwent a sex change after graduating from college, has another well-informed view of the powers of testosterone. “The world just changes,” he said. “The most overwhelming feeling was the incredible i...

Christopher Ryan

Victor Laszlo: I know a good deal more about you than you suspect. I know, for instance, that you're in love with a woman. It is perhaps a strange circumstance that we both should be in love with the same woman. The first evening I came to this café...

Casablanca

Naturelle Riviera: What are you boys up to? Jakob Elinsky: Frank's just flirting with the bartender. Naturelle Riviera: Oh, yeah? What's the verdict? Frank Slaughtery: Guilty of lookin' good. Naturelle Riviera: She's just tits, Francis. Frank Slaught...

25th Hour

Lestat: You're very anxious to be out of these rooms, aren't you? Why don't we simply get into bed together? I don't understand. David: You're serious? Lestat: Of course David: You do realize, that this is an absolutely magnificent body, don't you? I...

Anne Rice

A master like Raoul looks for a woman whose need to serve and submit matches his need to protect and take command.

To Command and Collar

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza Emotionalist: A man or woman who thinks he has experienced the divine.

Caravan of Dreams

No other woman had that air of spring in January, that ever-bubbling fount of love and hope.

The Child of the Holy Grail

There ain't a man in the world cares about a woman's past until he's thinking of her in his future.

Clockwork Heart

Yes, men are pigs. Except your brother, of course. He's actually a decent human being. Almost a woman. -Jillian's mother

Catch a Mate

Sofia the kind of woman no matter what she have in her hand she make it look like a weapon.

The Color Purple

Don't you know, you idiot, that that is what every fool of a woman says about her child? Miss Bulstrode's thoughts.

Cat Among the Pigeons

Heck, that woman out there looked like she was getting more from one kiss than Jessica had ever gotten from the whole shebang.

Club Shadowlands

The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree.

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