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  • Always 'duty.' I am sick of the word. They are a lot of old blockheads in flannel vests and of old women with foot-warmers and rosaries who constantly drone into our ears 'Duty, duty!' Ah! by Jove! one's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.

    Beautiful   Feet   Sick  
    Gustave Flaubert (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert (Illustrated)”, p.195, Delphi Classics
  • You can't breathe for sheer revulsion when you keep finding the bodies of women with bamboo poles thrust up their vaginas. Even old women over 70 are constantly being raped.

    Bamboo   Body   Breathe  
    John Rabe (2007). “The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe”, p.208, Vintage
  • Death laughs when old women frolic.

  • If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.

    Moving   Careers   Dying  
    Erica Jong (2007). “What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong”, p.59, Penguin
  • Asked by reporters about his upcoming marriage to a forty-two-year-old woman, director Roman Polanski told reporters, `The way I look at it, she's the equivalent of three fourteen-year-olds.'

    David Letterman, Andy Breckman (1985). “Late night with David Letterman: the book”, Random House Inc
  • We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.

    Men   Rights   Justice  
    Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner, Yuval Taylor (1999). “Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.102, Chicago Review Press
  • While cats can be infuriating, little old women in fur coats, they make me laugh. Of course, dogs, horses and my highly social chickens are dear to me, too.

    Dog   Horse   Cat  
    "What We Can Learn From Animals" by Rita Mae Brown, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.
  • It is far more probable that our senses should deceive us, than that an old woman should be carried up a chimney on a broom stick; and that it is far less astonishing that witnesses should lie, than that witches should perform the acts that were alleged.

    Lying   Atheism   Sticks  
  • What work you do! It's strange work for a Christian girl to hang old women!

    Arthur Miller (1992). “The Crucible”, p.48, Heinemann
  • Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but a poet; for a poet is worse, more servile, timorous and fawning than any I have named.

    Atheist   Pimp   Atheism  
    William Congreve (1785). “Love for Love: A Comedy”, p.8
  • When I see young men and old women come out of the closet and face being called faggots and dykes and pariahs and betrayers of the family dream, then I am honored to be gay because I belong to a people who are proud.

    Dream   Gay   Men  
  • There is nothing as tentative as an old woman's touch; as loving or as horrible.

  • Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you can't do it. In my day I was told women didn't go into chemistry. I saw no reason why we couldn't.

  • Yeah, I'm a geek. I read sci-fi and I watch sci-fi films. I love my computer and I love to fix it. I'm a total nerd. I literally am a 12-year-old geeky boy trapped in a 32-year-old woman's body.

    Boys   Years   Nerd  
  • He whipped out his sheet, then pulled it over himself and wrapped it tightly around his face like an old woman in a shawl. 'How do I look?' 'Like the ugliest shanky girl I’ve ever seen,' Minho responded. 'You better thank the gods above you were born a dude.' 'Thanks.

    Girl   Looks   Faces  
    James Dashner (2014). “The Maze Runner Trilogy”, p.397, Scholastic UK
  • I had never experienced anything like the response I got from people for Pirates of the Caribbean, where you meet a 75-year-old woman who had seen Pirates and somehow related to the character, and then five minutes later you meet a six-year-old who says, 'Oh, you're Captain Jack!' What a rush. What a gift. That was the challenge with Wonka, too--to be, in a sense, like Bugs Bunny. I find it magical that a three-year-old can be mesmerized by Bugs, but so can a 40-year-old or an 80-year-old. It's a great challenge to see if you can appeal to that huge an age range.

  • You know, my hair is very upsetting to people, but it's upsetting on purpose. It is important to look old so that the young will not be afraid of dying. People don't like old women. We don't honor age in our society, and we certainly don't honor it in Hollywood.

    Hair   People   Upset  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • The public is anold woman.Let her maunderand mumble.

    Thomas Carlyle, Brendan King (1993). “The Sayings of Thomas Carlyle”, p.60, Lulu.com
  • I'd rather be a silly old fool than a lonely old woman.

    Lonely   Silly   Fool  
  • It's been hard in entertainment as a 45-year-old woman to find jobs. They get fewer and far between if you're older, unless you're one of the few lucky ones who work constantly, like Meryl Streep.

    Jobs   Years   Lucky  
  • I want blood! Two of Aksel’s dogs cornered me near Tondara. They shot me. Those bastards actually shot a hole in my stabilizer the size of Mirala…Aren’t you going to say something? (Syn) Were you hurt? (Nykyrian) No. (Syn) Then why are you having a fit? (Nykyrian) I don’t know, it just felt right. You see why I don’t like being sober? I overreact like an old woman. (He opened his flask, then slammed it down on Nykyrian’s desk.) Figures the damned thing would be empty. (Syn)

    Dog   Hurt   Blood  
  • To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

    Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.61, Cosimo, Inc.
  • I am aware of myself as a four-hundred-year-old woman, born in the captivity of a colonial, pre-industrial oral culture and living now as a contemporary New Yorker.

    Years   Four   Captivity  
  • In the sheltered heart of the clumps last year's foliage still clings to the lower branches, tatters of orange that mutter with the passage of the wind, the talk of old women warning the green generation of what they, too, must come to when the sap runs back.

    Running   Women   Heart  
    Jacquetta Hawkes (1952). “A land”
  • It is convenient for the old men to blame Eve. To insist we are damned because a country girl talked to the snake one afternoon long ago. Children must starve in Somalia for that, and old women be abandoned in our greatest cities. It’s why we will finally be thrown into the lakes of molten lead. Because she was confused by happiness that first time anyone said she was beautiful. Nevertheless, she must be the issue, so people won’t notice that rocks and galaxies, mathematics and rust are also created in His image.

    Jack Gilbert (2012). “Collected Poems”, p.382, Knopf
  • Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy, Canada is like an intelligent, 35 year old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson.

  • As a kid it's adorable to have a gap in your teeth. But then, because of the shifting in my mouth, I started whistling through it, and as a 32-year-old woman, whistling while you speak in sort of annoying.

    Kids   Years   Adorable  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • If ever you get to be my age," said the old woman, "you will know all there is to know about regrets, and you will know that one more, here or there, will make no difference in the long run.

  • Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

    Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Clouds of Witness”, p.292, Open Road Media
  • I don't categorize myself as an 85-year-old woman who has written an erotic novel. I categorize myself as a writer who's written an erotic novel.

    Years   Erotic   Novel  
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