Old Woman Quotes - Page 2

• My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Sweet, Politics, Short And Sweet

  Abraham Lincoln, H. Jack Lang (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln as Reflected in His Briefer Letters and Speeches”, p.1, Stackpole Books

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• 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.

  John Rabe

  Bamboo, Body, Breathe

  John Rabe (2007). “The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe”, p.208, Vintage

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• Once an old woman at my church said the secret is that God loves us exactly the way we are and that he loves us too much to let us stay like this, and I'm just trying to trust that.

  Anne Lamott

  Change, Secret, Church

  Anne Lamott (1994). “Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year”, Fawcett

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• Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!

  John Buchanan Robinson

  Paper, Pins, Interest

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• Interpreting the dance: young women in white dancing in a ring can only be virgins; old women in black dancing in a ring can only be witches; but middle-aged women in colors, square dancing...?

  Mason Cooley

  White, Squares, Color

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• It is a terrible thing for an old woman to outlive her dogs.

  Tennessee Williams

  Dog, Loss, Terrible

  Tennessee Williams (2008). “Camino Real”, p.10, New Directions Publishing

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• I don't have a child, so Women for Women is like my child. But I always said I would step down after 20 years. I didn't want to be a 60-year-old woman holding on to something I created when I was 23.

  Zainab Salbi

  Children, Years, Want

  "Zainab Salbi: Escape from tyranny". Interview With Homa Khaleeli, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2013.

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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.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Beautiful, Feet, Sick

  Gustave Flaubert (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert (Illustrated)”, p.195, Delphi Classics

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• War is not two great armies meeting in the clash and frenzy of battle. War is a boy being carried on a stretcher, looking up at God’s blue sky with bewildered eyes that are soon to close; war is a woman carrying a child that has been injured by a shell; war is spirited horses tied in burning buildings and waiting for death; war is the flower of a race, battered, hungry, bleeding, up to its knees in filthy water; war is an old woman burning a candle before the Mater Dolorsa for the son she has given.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Horse, Children, War

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• It is well to be off with the old woman before you're on with the new.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Women, Divorce, Wells

  George Bernard Shaw (2004). “The Philanderer”, p.53, 1st World Publishing

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• Why in the world would anyone want to photograph an old woman like me?

  Lillie Langtry

  Photography, World, Want

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• WITCH, n. (1) Any ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil. (2) A beautiful and attractive young woman, in wickedness a league beyond the devil.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Beautiful, Women, League

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.327, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If I were a 40-year-old woman, 40-to-50, I'd want to be getting my mammograms. They catch cancers, and cancer is very curable if you catch it early.

  Ann Romney

  Cancer, Years, Mammograms

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• The Witch's Life" When I was a child there was an old woman in our neighborhood whom we called The Witch. All day she peered from her second story window from behind the wrinkled curtains and sometimes she would open the window and yell: Get out of my life! She had hair like kelp and a voice like a boulder. I think of her sometimes now and wonder if I am becoming her.

  Anne Sexton

  Children, Thinking, Hair

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Moscow, Want, Women Want

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• Some old women and men grow bitter with age; the more their teeth drop out, the more biting they get.

  George D. Prentice

  Inspirational, Funny, Men

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• Desire animates the world. It is present in the baby crying for milk, the girl struggling to solve a math problem, the woman running to meet her lover and later deciding to have children, and the old woman, hunched over her walker, moving down the hall of the nursing home at a glacial pace to pick up her mail. Banish desire from the world, and you get a world of frozen beings who have no reason to live and no reason to die.

  William Braxton Irvine

  Girl, Running, Baby

  William Braxton Irvine (2007). “On Desire: Why We Want what We Want”, p.2, Oxford University Press

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• Have you not often met poor old women who are most faithful to the pious recitation of the Rosary? You also must do all that you can to recite it with fervour. Get right down, at the feet of Jesus: it is a good thing to make oneself small in the presence of so great a God.

  Columba Marmion

  Jesus, Feet, Catholic

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• To be honest Im quite boring I love to go bowling and to the moviesWhen it comes to my wardrobe I think I dress like a 30 year old woman

  Selena Gomez

  Thinking, Years, Dresses

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• This is all very fine, but it won't do-Anatomy-botany-Nonsense! Sir, I know an old woman in Covent Garden, who understands botany better, and as for anatomy, my butcher can dissect a joint full as well; no, young man, all that is stuff; you must go to the bedside, it is there alone you can learn disease!
  Comment to Hans Sloane on Robert Boyle's letter of introduction describing Sloane as a 'ripe scholar, a good botanist, a skilful anatomist'.

  Thomas Sydenham

  Science, Men, Garden

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• In the legends that males have invented to explain life, the first human creature is a man named Adam. Eve arrives later, to give him pleasure and cause trouble. In the paintings that adorn churches, God is an old man with a beard, never an old woman with white hair. And all the heroes are males: from Prometheus who discovered fire to Icarus who tried to fly, on down to Jesus whom they call the Son of God and of the Holy Spirit, almost as though the woman giving birth to him were an incubator or a wetnurse.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Jesus, Hero, Son

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• One day when Thomas Aquinas was preaching to the local populace on the love of God, he saw an old woman listening attentively to his every word. And inspired by her eagerness to learn more about her God whom she loved so dearly, he said to the people: It is better to be this unlearned woman, loving God with all her heart, than the most learned theologian lacking love.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Heart, People, Listening

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• I learned a woman is never an old woman.

  Joni Mitchell

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• The things that hold women back, hold them back from sitting at the boardroom table and they hold women back from speaking at the PTA meeting.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Work, Women, Careers

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• 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.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Dog, Horse, Cat

  "What We Can Learn From Animals" by Rita Mae Brown, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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