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Woman Quotes by Toni Morrison
- Tell us what it is to be a woman so that we may know what it is to be a man. What moves at the…
- Listening to the doves in Alfred, Georgia, and having neither the right nor the permission to enjoy it because in that place mist, doves, sunlight,…
- Well, feel this, why don't you? Feel how it feels to have a bed to sleep in and somebody there not worrying you to death…
- Of course I'm a black writer. I'm not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer and Latin American writer aren't marginal…
- She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all…
- I know what every colored woman in this country is doing... Dying. Just like me. But the difference is they dying like a stump. Me,…
- A son ain't what a woman say. A son is what a man do.
- True the Black woman did the housework, the drudgery; true, she reared the children, often alone, but she did all of that while occupying a…
- She had been looking all along for a friend, and it took her a while to discover that a lover was not a comrade and…
- Risky, thought Paul D, very risky. For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous, especially if it was her children she had…
- Now he knew why he loved her so. Without ever leaving the ground, she could fly. 'There must be another one like you,' he whispered…
- The loneliest woman in the world is the woman without a close woman friend.
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- It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before. — Jane Austen
- In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. — Jane Austen
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