Old Woman Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• 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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• I have gone from being a 21-year-old with wide eyes to a 24-year-old woman. With success comes a lot of responsibility and power.

  Vanessa Carlton

  Eye, Responsibility, Years

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Once an old woman came to Buddha and asked him how to meditate. He told her to remain aware of every movement of her hands as she drew the water from the well, knowing that if she did, she would soon find herself in that state of alert and spacious calm that is meditation.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Hands, Knowing, Water

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• Even a foolish old woman like me knows that lazy people don't think for themselves; they only think about themselves.

  Terry Goodkind

  Thinking, Lazy People, Foolish

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Blood of the Fold”, p.88, RosettaBooks

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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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• How beautiful an old woman's skin is! All those wrinkles!

  Thomas Eakins

  Beautiful, Wrinkles, Skins

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• I have heard of some good old woman in a cottage, who had nothing but a piece of bread and a little water, and lifting up her hands, she said, as a blessing, What! all this, and Christ too?

  Charles Spurgeon

  Blessing, Hands, Water

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2012). “The Spurgeon Series 1855 & 1856: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language”, p.180, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.

  Brendan Behan

  Summer, Beer, Winter

  "Brendan Behan Dies in Dublin", www.nytimes.com. March 21, 1964.

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• 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.

  Gloria Vanderbilt

  Years, Erotic, Novel

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• Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. . . . . . . Prayer is the first and the last lesson in learning the noble and brave art of sacrificing self in the various walks of life culminating in the defence of one's nation's liberty and honour.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Art, Prayer, Sacrifice

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• Why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Wake Up, Womans Day, International Women Day

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Howard (earl of Carlisle) (1852). “Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.90

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• A relationship book I once read told women to use the word fun whenever possible. The author claimed it had a subliminal aphrodisiac effect on men, who want a relaxed girl attached only to good times - the human equivalent of Diet Coke. This is not me.

  Julie Klausner

  Girl, Fun, Book

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• 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.

  Douglas Adams

  Country, Intelligent, Boys

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• One difference between ants and humans is that while ants send their old women off to war, humans send their young men.

  E. O. Wilson

  War, Men, Differences

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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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• But in some ways, I'm like an old woman - lived it, seen it, done it, been there, have the T-shirt.

  Drew Barrymore

  Done, Way, T Shirt

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