I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and cold and dry thinks of her sewing when… — Ovid Copy Share Image
A vast deal of human sympathy runs along the electric line of needlework, stretching from the throne to the wicker chair of… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Tell Robb that I'm going to command the Night's Watch and keep him safe, so he might as well take up needlework… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But dear, you hate to sew. I will be married soon. Lady Thiel says a woman with needlework in her hands is… — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
What do you like to do?” She scuffed a toe amongst the rushes. “Needlework.” “Very restful, isn’t it?” “Well,” said Arya, “not… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Women have always collected things and saved and recycled them because leftovers yielded nourishment in new forms. The decorative functional objects women… — Miriam Schapiro Copy Share Image
My own hobbies are rather quiet. I like to read and do needlework, and I love animals. — Betsy Byars Copy Share Image
“Women derive a pleasure, incomprehensible to the other sex, from the delicate toil of the needle.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Methinks it is a token of healthy and gentle characteristics, when women of high thoughts and accomplishments love to sew; especially as… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Everybody tells me that they would love to knit, but they don't have time. I look at people's lives and I can… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
By your logic I should also be in charge of Solinade dances, needlework, and horse thieving. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I stare at him coldly. "I do not care for needlework." I pause. "Unless it involves the base of the skull. — R.L. LaFevers Copy Share Image
It took me years and years of trial efforts to work out that there is absolutely no knitting triumph I can achieve… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
The needlework of lies and rumors seeks to distract peoples attention from the daily business of governance under the Presidents leadership. Those… — Eduardo Ermita Copy Share Image
The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Some people wait constructively; they read or knit. I have watched some truly appalling pieces of needlework take form. Others - I… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
There is no right way to knit; there is no wrong way to knit. So if anybody kindly tells you that what… — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share Image
For women to be supplying the soldiery with banners, flannel shirts and other material comforts was, superficially, all of a piece with… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
I ride horseback - arthritic knees permitting - or listen to opera. Sometimes I cook. I used to do needlework, but it's… — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Copy Share Image
“Then took the quilt out of its linen wrapper for the pleasure of the brilliant colors and the feel of the velvet.… — Paulette Jiles Copy Share Image
From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I'm good at embroidery. It's what I always wanted to do.... Yep, instead of whoring, I just wanted to do fancy embroidery. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
