Brown eyes Quote by Barbara Kingsolver

“In fact, the mothers of all her girl friends impressed on their daughters the necessity of being helpless, clinging, doe-eyed creatures. Really, it took…

— Margaret Mitchell

“Her hair was hidden under a white headdress, like some kind of wimple; she wore a long white tunic and trousers, and her skin…

— Amanda Hemingway

“She was gauche in movement and in a sense, ugly of face, but with how small a twist might she not suddenly have become…

— Mervyn Peake

“She was a tiny, frailly built girl, who gave the appearance of a child masquerading in her mother’s enormous hoop skirts – an illusion…

— Margaret Mitchell

“She bore an uncanny resemblance to my mother, but the same beauty bloomed differently in each of them. My mother's fairness was exquisite and…

— Susan Abulhawa

“The costumes of these two ladies seemed to me like the materialisation, snow-white or patterned with colour, of their inner activity, and, like the…

— Marcel Proust

“Instinct caused a woman who had once been so attractive to still attempt makeup and hairdos, Marisa guessed, but more often than not, the…

— Anna Jeffrey

“She was an intelligent and honest woman who knew what she was... and she was no beauty. Her attractions were moderate at best, and…

— Lisa Kleypas

Niobe would have been called most blessed of mothers, had she not seemed so herself.

— Ovid

“Her mind, shaped so long before my own, was for me the equivalent of what had been offered me by the behaviour of the…

— Marcel Proust

As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge breast, an…

— Adrienne Rich

Her mother was my wife," the Count roared, loudest of all. "You pathetic excuse for am money-grubbing fool, you disgrace to the face of…

— William Goldman