Woman Quotes - page 89

It's like being home again, when they bring in the hopelessly mangled person from the mine explosion, or the woman in her third day of labor, or the famished child struggling against pneumonia and my mother and Prim, they wear that same look on their faces. Now is the times to run away tho the woods, to hide in the trees until the patient is long gone and in another part of the Seam the hammers make the coffin. But I'm held here both by the hovercraft walls and the same force that holds the loved ones of the dying. How often I've seen them, ringed around our kitchen table and I thought, Why don't they leave? Why do they stay to watch? And now I know. It's because you have no choice. (Suzanne Collins)
Suddenly I remember how she volunteered to replace the young, hysterical woman in her district. It couldn't be because she thought she had any chance of winning. She did it to save the girl, just like I volunteered last year to save Prim. And I decide I want her on my team. View quote
Suzanne Collins
Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much. View quote
Suzanne Collins
He could have had his choice of any woman in the district. And he chose solitude. Not solitude – that sounds too peaceful. More like solitary confinement. View quote
Suzanne Collins
Barbarism? That's ironic coming from a woman helping to prepare us for slaughter. And what's she basing our success on? Our table manners? View quote
Suzanne Collins
Because I take care of my body, it doesn't look like the body of a woman of my years. View quote
Gloria Swanson
She remembered home as a place where there were always too many children, a cross man and work piling up around a sick woman. View quote
Willa Cather
I think of you more often than of anyone else in this part of the world. I'd have liked to have you for a sweetheart, or a wife, or my mother or my sister - anything that a woman can be to a man. The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don't realize it. You really are a part of me. View quote
Willa Cather
People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know. We were... A man and woman draw apart from that long embrace, and see what they have done to each other... In age we lose everything; even the power to love. View quote
Willa Cather
The years seemed to stretch before her like the land: spring, summer, autumn, winter, spring; always the same patient fields, the patient little trees, the patient lives; always the same yearning; the same pulling at the chain - until the instinct to live had torn itself and bled and weakened for the last time, until the chain secured a dead woman, who might cautiously be released. View quote
Willa Cather
Carrying a baby is the most rewarding experience a woman can enjoy. (Jayne Mansfield)
Audrey's been great for me. She has brought out a side of me that's more mischievous and fun that I had suppressed, trying to be an adult. She has made it OK to use the power one has as a woman to be manipulative at times, to be precocious. She goes after what she wants vehemently and she takes it. I think that's really admirable. I love that about her. View quote
Sherilyn Fenn
The difference between working with a man and a woman... is immense. View quote
Sherilyn Fenn
Jessica Lange in Frances... was dramatic and passionate and one of the strongest performances I've seen a woman do. View quote
Sherilyn Fenn
There are stereotypes of what a beautiful woman is. She struggled with that. A certain part of her life she went on that calling card. I certainly know I've come into contact with that. ‘You are too pretty,' I'm told. View quote
Sherilyn Fenn
It's completely different to work with a woman that is my age, maybe younger. View quote
Sherilyn Fenn
A woman at a certain age who is unmarried, our society teaches her to see it as a deep personal failure. And a man, after a certain age isn't married, we just think he hasn't come around to making his pick. View quote
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
My own definition is a feminist is a man or woman who says 'yes,there's a problem with gender as it is today and we must fix it,we must do better.All of us,women and men,must do better. View quote
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The city atmosphere certainly has improved her. Some way she doesn't seem like the same woman. View quote
Kate Chopin
I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery. View quote
Kate Chopin
There was something in her attitude, in her whole appearance when she leaned her head against the high-backed chair and spread her arms, which suggested the regal woman, the one who rules, who looks on, who stands alone. (Kate Chopin)
You don't need a pickup line. Just glance at a woman from across the room. Glance - don't stare. View quote
Jenny McCarthy
In other words, we have to stop this beaver woman before she's gnawn apart every welfare system we've got in our country. View quote
Mona Sahlin
If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative. View quote
Barbara Walters
Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met. View quote
Barbara Walters