Old Woman Quotes - Page 8

• The old woman was not only ugly with the ugliness age brings us all but showed signs of formidable ugliness by birth - pickle-jar chin, mainsail ears and a nose like a trigonometry problem. What's more, she had the deep frown and snit wrinkles that come from a lifetime of bad character.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Sarcastic, Character, Wrinkles

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.145, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• And did I pass?" The face of the old woman on my right was unreadable in the gathering dusk. On my left the younger woman said, "You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear.

  Neil Gaiman

  Gathering, Faces, Failing

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• You can see where it was, years ago. Like an old woman who was once beautiful, but time has taken her beauty away.

  Cassandra Clare

  Beautiful, Taken, Years

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

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• Er," Oliver said. "He talks even less than the one Lily married," the crone remarked to Walter. "Though when the mood strikes him, he asks just as many questions as Galem." "I'm sorry," Oliver said weakly. The old woman nodded. "You are forgiven," she pronounced in a queenly tones.

  Jessica Day George

  Sorry, Lilies, Tone

  Jessica Day George (2012). “Princess of the Silver Woods”, p.223, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. I see her, an old woman, weeping for me on the anniversary of this day. I see her and her husband, their course done, lying side by side in their last earthly bed, and I know that each was not more honoured and held sacred in the other's soul, than I was in the souls of both.

  Charles Dickens

  Husband, Lying, Heart

  Charles Dickens (2016). “A Tale of Two Cities”, p.348, Xist Publishing

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  So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Beauty, Beautiful, Girl

  Ulysses S. Grant, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Stephen Crane, Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Modern Library Civil War Bookshelf 5-Book Bundle: Personal Memoirs, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Red Badge of Courage, Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings, The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.1027, Modern Library

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• an old woman ... is a person who has no sense of decency; if once she takes to living, the devil himself can't get rid of her.

  Fanny Burney

  Age, Devil, Persons

  Fanny Burney (1782). “Cecilia, Or Memoirs of an Heiress”, p.137

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• Pretended to see nothing in the old woman's taunts. Very hard to imagine nothingness.

  Georg Ebers

  Imagine, Taunting, Hard

  Georg Ebers “The Historical Romances of Georg Ebers”, Library of Alexandria

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• In mythos and fairy tales, deities and other great spirits test the hearts of humans by showing up in various forms that disguise their divinity. They show up in robes, rags, silver sashes, or with muddy feet. They show up with skin dark as old wood, or in scales made of rose petal, as a frail child, as a lime-yellow old woman, as a man who cannot speak, or as an animal who can. The great powers are testing to see if humans have yet learned to recognize the greatness of soul in all its varying forms.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Children, Heart, Dark

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• 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.

  Erica Jong

  Moving, Careers, Dying

  Erica Jong (2007). “What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong”, p.59, Penguin

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• It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Views, One Day, Pleasure

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1825). “The Works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Including Her Correspondence, Poems, and Essays, Form Her Genuine Papers”, p.419

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• All your female friends are either old or ugly; nay, more ugly than old women usually are. These you lead about in your train, and drag with you to feasts, porticos and theaters. Thus, Fabulla, you seem handsome, thus you seem young.

  Martial

  Female, Ugly, Handsome

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• 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.

  Gertrude B. Elion

  Motivational, Fear, Women

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• Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, 'Well, isn't that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I'll figure out what we're going to do about your stuff.

  Anne Lamott

  God, Prayer, Water

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.108, Anchor

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• 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.

  Tyne Daly

  Hair, People, Upset

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The public is anold woman.Let her maunderand mumble.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Thomas Carlyle, Brendan King (1993). “The Sayings of Thomas Carlyle”, p.60, Lulu.com

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• Time comes when every man's got to feel something new--when he's got to feel young again, just because he's growing old. Women are just the same. But when we get that way we change our hairdress. Or get a new cook.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Men, Growing, Way

  Clare Boothe Luce (1966). “The Women”, p.25, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• There are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Cat, Comfort

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.44, Penguin

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• Old women can see through walls.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Wall

  "The House of Bernarda Alba" by Federico Garcia Lorca, Act II, (l. 597), 1936.

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• When I was younger, I enjoyed being strong, and I loved it when my heart was very strong, but I think it was also about submitting to the cultural idea that if you're a 22-year-old woman, you have to look a certain way. I'm not into that anymore. But I do appreciate it when my clothes fit.

  Jennifer Beals

  Strong, Heart, Thinking

  Better Nutrition Magazine, March 2004.

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• Irony: While we increasingly hold people more responsible if they drink and drive, we hold women less responsible if they drink and have sex.

  Warren Farrell

  Sex, People, Irony

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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

  Anne Enright

  Horrible

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• I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!

  Beatrix Potter

  Thinking, Shoes, House

  Beatrix Potter (2016). “The Complete Works of Beatrix Potter: 22 Children’s Books with 650+ Original Illustrations in One Volume: The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, The Tale of Two Bad Mice, The Tale of Samuel Whiskers and many more”, p.595, e-artnow

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• In the midterm elections, a 102-year-old woman voted for the first time in a U.S. election. Unfortunately, she voted for Woodrow Wilson.

  Conan O'Brien

  Years, Firsts, Election

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• 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.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Lying, Atheism, Sticks

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