Distaff Quotes
- When women are seen with pen in hand, they are met immediately with shrieks commanding a return to that life of pain which their writing… — Arcangela Tarabotti
- Threads that drift alone will sometimes simply twine themselves together, without need for spindle or distaff: brought into each other’s ambit, they bind themselves tight… — Jo Baker
- The things a man has heard and seen are threads of life, and if he pull them carefully from the confused distaff of memory, any… — William Butler Yeats
- He looked at a world of incredible loveliness. Old distaff Celt's blood in some back chamber of his brain moved him to discourse with the… — Cormac McCarthy