Old Woman Quotes - Page 4

• But then, shall I never get any older than I am now? That'll be a comfort, one way -- never to be an old woman -- but then -- always to have lessons to learn!

  Lewis Carroll

  Comfort, Wonderland, Lessons

  Lewis Carroll (2010). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass”, p.21, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If I ever saw my muse she would be an old woman with a tight bun and spectacles poking me in the middle of the back and growling, "Wake up and write the book!

  Kerry Greenwood

  Book, Writing, Buns

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• There's in my mind a... turbulent moon-ridden girl or old woman, or both, dressed in opals and rags, feathers and torn taffeta, who knows strange songs but she is not kind.

  Denise Levertov

  Girl, Song, Moon

  Denise Levertov, Robert Creeley, Paul A. Lacey (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.43, New Directions Publishing

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• I realize what a strange in-between place I am in. The Young Woman inside has turned to go, but the Old Woman has not shown up.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Strange, Realizing, Young

  Sue Monk Kidd, Ann Kidd Taylor (2009). “Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother and Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey, and France”, p.96, Penguin

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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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• The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sex, Moral, Abandoned

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• Growing old is not all sweetness and light. Old women especially are invisible.

  Ruth Rendell

  Light, Growing, Invisible

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• 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

  Years, Two Year Olds, Dating

  David Letterman, Andy Breckman (1985). “Late night with David Letterman: the book”, Random House Inc

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

  Arthur Miller

  Girl, Christian, Strange

  Arthur Miller (1992). “The Crucible”, p.48, Heinemann

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• I’m turning into an old woman. Might as well start knitting and bitching about soap operas, gas prices, and rude drivers.” – Sundown

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Knitting, Rude, Opera

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• The old women only stuck around this long out of a sense of duty. Your mom was the same way. That's why I loved her. She put her duty first, ahead of evverything.

  Rick Riordan

  Mom, Long, Way

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• An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb

  Chinua Achebe

  Okonkwo, Dry Bones, Things Fall Apart Important

  FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Oct 28, 2014

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• A hysterical young woman with flowing brown hair is also called from 4, but she's quickly replaced by a volunteer, an eighty-year-old woman who needs a cane to walk to the stage.

  Suzanne Collins

  Hair, Years, Volunteer

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”, p.150, Scholastic

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• It was about a girl who helps an ugly old woman who turns out to be a good fairy in disguise. Inner values versus shallow appearances.

  Connie Willis

  Girl, Ugly, Helping

  Connie Willis (2010). “Bellwether”, p.54, Spectra

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• From my childhood, I remember a tiny old woman named Mary, made pale and almost translucent by time. Mary's childhood memories extended back to the confusing and violent finale of the Civil War, and she told stories of brutal murders in those days and refused to name some of the killers, as if dead men might still be prosecuted in the late 1950s.

  Charles Frazier

  Memories, War, Men

  "Week three: Charles Frazier on writing Cold Mountain" by Charles Frazier, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.

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• Little Red was a tender young morsel, and the wolf knew she would be even tastier than the old woman.

  Marissa Meyer

  Would Be, Littles, Red

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• 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.

  Neil Gaiman

  Running, Regret, Differences

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• Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Sex, Years, People

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• A propos of Distempers, I am going to tell you a thing that I am sure will make you wish your selfe here. The Small Pox so fatal and so general amongst us is here entirely harmless by the invention of engrafting (which is the term they give it). There is a set of old Women who make it their business to perform the Operation.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Science, Giving, Wish

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• My nana was always a widow as long as I was alive; my grandfather died before I was born. All the women on my street - there were four houses in a row with all old women who lived alone who were widowed. They all had kids, but they were all widowed. My mom didn't put me in preschool; I didn't know that was a thing. I just hung out with these women all day.

  Jen Kirkman

  Mom, Kids, Long

  Source: www.avclub.com

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