Before Her Quotes
67 quotes by 61 authors
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The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that's what. She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman ever…
— Adela Rogers St. Johns
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According to St. Bonaventure, all the angels in heaven unceasingly call out to her: "Holy, holy, holy Mary, Virgin Mother of God." They greet her…
— Louis de Montfort
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If anyone should want to know my name, I am called Leah. And I spend all my time weaving garlands of flowers with my fair…
— Dante Alighieri
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With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.
— John Stuart Mill
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India has indeed a great and free future before her, in which she can make her special contribution to the well-being of mankind. The first…
— Stafford Cripps
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The city of Pittsburgh gleaming suddenly before her . . . so startling in its vastness and its beauty that she had gasped and slowed,…
— Kim Edwards
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
— William Faulkner
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And then she realized that his presence was the wall, his presence was destroying her. Unless she could break out, she must die most fearfully,…
— D. H. Lawrence
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If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her eighteenth birthday, you can get out of bed.
— E. Jean Carroll
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I'd walked too close to heaven and gotten a glimpse. The hell I'd lived before her no longer appealed to me.
— Abbi Glines
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She bowed her head, clasping her hands tightly before her upon the arm of his chair, for her heart yearned towards him, yet could not…
— Georgette Heyer
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The new world lies before her eyes like an opened chest of treasure, a flock of birds over Africa, a thousand TVs all playing at…
— Douglas Coupland
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Charlotte, having seen his body Borne before her on a shutter, Like a well-conducted person, Went on cutting bread and butter.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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Organ donation is very personal to me. My mother, before her death, was on kidney dialysis for several years.
— John Perez
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It's a pleasure to play my sister because everything I've accused her of my whole life, I can now re-enact before her eyes.
— Chelsea Handler
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This was how the modern working girl behaved. She didn’t hide her femininity or apologize for it, as they did in the old days. She…
— J. Courtney Sullivan
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Over to the jukebox I staggered for a love song to scatter my body before her.
— Kim Mitchell
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There is strength deep bedded in our hearts, of which we reck but little till the shafts of heaven have pierced its fragile dwelling. Must…
— Felicia Hemans
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Good art can come out of thieves, bootleggers, or horse swipes. People really are afraid to find out just how much hardship and poverty they…
— William Faulkner
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I really have been enjoying performing more lately than I have in a long time and you know, it's all about that sort of centered…
— Ani DiFranco
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