If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
A tree may look as beautiful as ever; but when you notice the insects infesting it, and the tips of the branches… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The flat shoe makes the woman equal of men. When they have high [shoes], they play a part like a geisha, and… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
What I really wanted to know, though, was what it was like to be a geisha? Where do you sleep? What do… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“Oh I'm sure you're right," Auntie said. "Probably she's just as you say. But she looks to me like a very clever… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
Singletons should not have to explain themselves all the time but should have an accepted status — like geisha girls do — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
“And yet if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
'Memoirs of a Geisha' is everything you'd expect it to be: beautiful, mesmerizing, tasteful, Japanese. It's just not very hot. — Stephen Hunter Copy Share Image
I think the silhouette of the kimono costume will become engraved in people's minds. I do think there'll be lots of red… — Colleen Atwood Copy Share Image
Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“I'm not sure this will make sense to you but I felt as though I'd turned around to look in a different… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“What's that she's fiddling with when she ought to be listening? I do believe it's a pair of tweezers. She's plucking the… — A.P Copy Share Image
“trees [-] Inside their wooden samurai armor they are geisha beauties, each one a ‘person-of-the-arts,’ limbs dancing, arranging flowers, carrying the wind’s… — A. A. Attanasio Copy Share Image
I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“I knew even then that she was right. An en is a karmic bond lasting a lifetime. Nowadays many people seem to… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“When I was a nursemaid at the home of the landowners, a nun who happened to pass once gave me something square… — Sayo Masuda Copy Share Image
“Anyway I think I met him in the Swai. I was a Geisha, he was a Samurai” — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
“I was performing my ritual of sipping tea, shooting flirtatious glances and planning murder” — Mingmei Yip Copy Share Image
I was really interested in geishas' work, and wanted to meet real geishas. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
My mother once told me I was like water. Water can carve its way even through stone. And when trapped, water makes… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
The first rule that a geisha is taught, at the age of nine, is to be charming to other women...Every girl in… — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
Tatcha is my favorite beauty brand. They were also founded in San Francisco. Their entire line is based off of geisha tradition… — Ayesha Curry Copy Share Image
We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
From my opinion, 'geisha' means a woman skilled in the arts, like dancing, singing and playing musical instruments,. — Zhang Ziyi Copy Share Image
We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
I have been presented with roles with demand not just a physical ability but mental disciplines as well. 'Memoirs of a Geisha'… — Michelle Yeoh Copy Share Image
“I was hardly worthy of these surroundings. And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped about my body, and… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
She paints her face to hide her face. Her eyes are deep water. It is not for Geisha to want. It is… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
I enjoy being an actress a lot, because I can feel different women's lives. I have the chance to feel like a… — Zhang Ziyi Copy Share Image
This and the small sample size inevitably leads to stereotypes - sweeping family sagas from India, 'lush' colonial romances from South-East Asia.… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
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![“trees [-] Inside their wooden samurai armor they are geisha beauties, each one a ‘person-of-the-arts,’ limbs dancing, arranging flowers, carrying the wind’s music, the calligraphy of their roots pure poetry, rhyming earth and berth.” quote by A. A. Attanasio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/903/a-a-attanasio-2-98832_music_trees-inside-their-wooden-samurai-armor_999814.jpg)
