Old Woman Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• What does it profit a 78-year-old woman to sit around the pool in a bikini if she cannot feed herself?

  Erma Bombeck

  Years, Bikinis, Doe

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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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• A parable: A man was examining the construction of a cathedral. He asked a stone mason what he was doing chipping the stones, and the mason replied, "I am making stones." He asked a stone carver what he was doing. "I am carving a gargoyle." And so it went, each person said in detail what they were doing. Finally he came to an old woman who was sweeping the ground. She said. "I am helping build a cathedral." ...Most of the time each person is immersed in the details of one special part of the whole and does not think of how what they are doing relates to the larger picture.

  Richard Hamming

  Science, Men, Thinking

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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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• While other faiths are also often oppressive, sharia law is especially oppressive. Its interpretations stipulate the execution of Muslims who commit adultery, renounce their faith (apostates) or have same-sex relationships. Sharia methods of execution, such as stoning, are particularly brutal and cruel - witness the stoning to death this week in Somalia of a 20-year-old woman divorcee who was accused of adultery. This is the fourth stoning of an adulterer in Somalia in the last year.

  Peter Tatchell

  Sex, Years, Law

  "Just say no to sharia law" by Peter Tatchell, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2009.

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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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• 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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• Any old woman can love God better than a doctor of theology can.

  Bonaventure

  Love, Doctors, Theology

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• Nearly everyone could be undone by an old woman's displeasure.

  Victor LaValle

  Undone, Displeasure

  Victor LaValle (2012). “The Devil in Silver: A Novel”, p.34, Spiegel & Grau

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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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• 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.

  Arnie Kantrowitz

  Dream, Gay, Men

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• And yet, or just for this reason, it's so fascinating to be a woman. It's an adventure that takes such courage, a challenge that's never boring. You'll have so many things to engage you if you're born a woman. To begin with, you'll have to struggle to maintain that if God exists he might even be an old woman with white hair or a beautiful girl. Then you'll have to struggle to explain that it wasn't sin that was born on the day when Eve picked an apple, what was born that day was a splendid virtue called disobedience.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Beautiful, Girl, Struggle

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• you boys can keep your virgins give me hot old women in high heels with asses that forgot to get old.

  Charles Bukowski

  Women, Boys, High Heels

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “Love is a Dog From Hell”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?" "Are you a young lady?" "I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will be treated.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Blood, Phrases, Honest Woman

  Charlotte Bronte (2006). “Shirley: Easyread Edition”, p.258, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I don't go to parties even when I'm invited. I've always been an 80-year-old woman inside. I remember going to my first school dance petrified. I just wanted to leave. Like, This is cool, but I'm ready to go home now.

  Zendaya

  Party, Home, School

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• You came so that you could learn about your dreams," said the old woman. "And dreams are the language of God. When he speaks in our language, I can interpret what he has said. But if he speaks in the language of the soul, it is only you who can understand.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Soul, Alchemist

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.

  George Sand

  Different, Aging

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• Have you been drinking this morning? How did you miss me? I swear I’ve fought old women with better reflexes. (Takeshi) The fact you fight old women tells me just how rusty you’ve become. What? Your ego needed the boost and they were the only ones you could find you could beat? (Savitar)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Morning, Drinking, Fighting

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• I had a very old woman come up to me on the subway and tell me that the faces that I made in the first episode when a guy is going down on me, that she still makes those faces when her husband goes down on her.

  Zosia Mamet

  Husband, Guy, Faces

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• I'm against solutions that are worse than the problem. Like old women who want their hair dyed the color of shoe polish to hide the gray.

  Neal Shusterman

  Hair, Color, Shoes

  Neal Shusterman (2013). “UnSouled”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• People forget that old women were young once, but d'you think we old women forget? In my heart, I'm still thirty.

  Megan Chance

  Heart, Thinking, People

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• Louis: You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never die.
  Claudia: And it means something else too, doesn't it? I shall never ever grow up.

  Anne Rice

  Growing Up, Mean, Vampire

  "Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles". Drama, Horror, www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.

  Tanith Lee

  Jobs, Saint, Tough

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• Do you have any idea how hard it is to tail an eighty year-old woman Its hard. Really hard. Really...slow. -Grabrielle

  Ally Carter

  Years, Ideas, Tails

  Ally Carter (2011). “Uncommon Criminals”, p.49, ReadHowYouWant.com

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