I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman. — Chavela Vargas Copy Share Image
Irony: While we increasingly hold people more responsible if they drink and drive, we hold women less responsible if they drink and… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
“When I saw her in the light she was quite an old woman, fifty years old at least. But I went ahead… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I don’t want to wind up some old woman who talks to her rabbit,” she said to Rabbit,” — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Growing old is not all sweetness and light. Old women especially are invisible. — Ruth Rendell Copy Share Image
Little Red was a tender young morsel, and the wolf knew she would be even tastier than the old woman. — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
If I were to do a sequel, it would be with Sophie as a very old woman and The BFG the same,… — Mark Rylance Copy Share Image
The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Did you ever think that in a past life Alec was an old woman with ninety cats who was always yelling at… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“There being nobody by, however, but a pauper old woman, who was rendered rather misty by an unwonted allowance of beer; and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Yes, of course. I was on her like, um... I believe that old woman last week we took after she'd burnt down… — Abbi Glines Copy Share Image
An alcoholic 47-year-old woman with teenagers who thinks a guy in his mid-20s is a good prospect as a partner definitely has… — Emily Yoffe Copy Share Image
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… — Gertrude B. Elion Copy Share Image
I had a very old woman come up to me on the subway and tell me that the faces that I made… — Zosia Mamet Copy Share Image
There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He whipped out his sheet, then pulled it over himself and wrapped it tightly around his face like an old woman in… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
War is not two great armies meeting in the clash and frenzy of battle. War is a boy being carried on a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the legends that males have invented to explain life, the first human creature is a man named Adam. Eve arrives later,… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
What I think of sometimes, as I read the new books - do kids really need to see such a seamy side… — Patricia Reilly Giff Copy Share Image
One of the stall doors swings open and a fortyish-year-old woman walks out tucking her shirt into her jeans. Her heavy lined… — Jessica Sorensen Copy Share Image
The fact is that nothing is more difficult to believe than the truth; conversely, nothing seduces like the power of lies, the… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I think an awful lot of the reasons people put forward for not liking Hillary Clinton play into deep-seated, negative female stereotypes:… — Anne-Marie Slaughter Copy Share Image
Any more bitching from the geriatric crew? What a bunch of old women. Should I hire another crewmate to change your bed… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Desire animates the world. It is present in the baby crying for milk, the girl struggling to solve a math problem, the… — William Braxton Irvine Copy Share Image
You can see where it was, years ago. Like an old woman who was once beautiful, but time has taken her beauty… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“He’s awake and listening to us,” said the old woman. “Sly little rascal.” She chuckled. “But royalty has need of slyness. And… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
In my local newspaper, they had this advert: 'please look after your neighbours in the cold weather'. I live next door to… — Jack Dee Copy Share Image
A 66-YEAR-OLD woman has become the oldest new mum in Britain after giving birth to a baby boy. I'm amazed she needed… — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
And did I pass?" The face of the old woman on my right was unreadable in the gathering dusk. On my left… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Look at me, he said to her. His arms and legs jerked. Look at me. You got your wish. I have learned… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I have passed out of childhood into old age. I have had no youth - no womanhood; the hopes of womanhood have… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
If I can challenge old ideas about aging, I will feel more and more invigorated. I want to represent this new way.… — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
And now, my poor old woman, why are you crying so bitterly? It is autumn. The leaves are falling from the trees… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
The mature, forty-five-year-old woman, quite experienced in matters of life and death, knows that it was 'for the best,' but Daddy's girl,… — Mary-Lou Weisman Copy Share Image
“Lady Scadgers (an immensely fat old woman, with an inordinate appetite for butcher’s meat, and a mysterious leg which had now refused… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The old woman started to scream but nobody came to see what was the matter. Can one be sure who is screaming… — Mrożek Sławomir Copy Share Image
“Two hundred years ago an old Dutch voyager likened its shape to that of a shoemaker’s last. And in this same last… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Have you not often met poor old women who are most faithful to the pious recitation of the Rosary? You also must… — Columba Marmion Copy Share Image
The old woman was not only ugly with the ugliness age brings us all but showed signs of formidable ugliness by birth… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Once an old woman came to Buddha and asked him how to meditate. He told her to remain aware of every movement… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
