Still, every little bit helps, as the old woman said when…

Once ye made up yer mind to do somethin', 'tis better t'stumble o'er the small hillock of jump-ahead than t'bash yer head on the…

— Karen Hawkins

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…

— Gertrude B. Elion

Yeah, I'm a geek. I read sci-fi and I watch sci-fi films. I love my computer and I love to fix it. I'm a…

— Amber Benson

“Seriously, this old woman had no idea how close she came to being squashed like a roach. -Sage Hannigan, Contingency”

— P. S. Martinez

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…

— Anne Lamott

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…

— Anne Sexton

The public is anold woman.Let her maunderand mumble.

— Thomas Carlyle

“Come into my wagon, dear heart,” the old woman crooned at Celaena, “and let old Baba Yellowlegs take a look into your future.” Sure…

— Sarah J. Maas

“Picture to yourself, O fair young reader, a worldly, selfish, graceless, thankless, religionless old woman, writhing in pain and fear, and without her wig.…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“The old woman took the umbrella, gratefully, and smiled her thanks. “You’ve a good heart,” she told him. “Sometimes that’s enough to see you…

— Neil Gaiman

When you ask single men in their 20s, "Do you want children?" they want children more than women do. Again, economics drive this. If…

— Stephen Marche

This is what I miss, Cordelia: not something that’s gone, but something that will never happen. Two old women giggling over their tea.

— Margaret Atwood

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

— Ambrose Bierce

“There being nobody by, however, but a pauper old woman, who was rendered rather misty by an unwonted allowance of beer; and a parish…

— Charles Dickens

All I can say is that we are mistaken to gouge such a deep rift in history that the things old men and old…

— Charles Frazier