“It is convenient for the old men to blame Eve. To insist we are damned because a country girl talked to the snake one afternoon long ago. Children must starve in Somalia for that, and old women be abandoned in our greatest cities. It’s why we will finally be thrown into the lakes of molten lead. Because she was confused by happiness that first time anyone said she was beautiful. Nevertheless, she must be the issue, so people won’t notice that rocks and galaxies, mathematics and rust are also created in His image.” PeopleMenFirstsChildrenLongSaidCountryBeautifulGirlCitiesIssuesRocksFirst TimeMathematicsBlameConfusedThrownLakesOld ManAfternoonAbandonedLong AgoNeverthelessSnakesGalaxyConvenientOld WomanRustSomaliaCountry Girl Book:Collected Poems Source: Collected Poems
“Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.” WantLooksAgeGirlStupidHairSillyLive ByOrnamentsOld Woman Author:Arthur Golden
“I want to play a role of a 24-year-old woman, not 17-year-old girls. So I have picked a couple of films like 'Butter' to show that. And it's perfectly fine not to do anything for a year if I don't find the right thing.” IfsWantYearsPlayShowsFilmGirlRolesFineCoupleRight ThingOld Woman Author:Ashley Greene
“War begins like a pretty girl with whom every man wants to flirt and ends like an ugly old woman whose visitors suffer and weep.” MenWantWarEndsSufferingGirlUglyEvery ManFlirtingVisitorsOld WomanPretty Girl Author:Samuel ibn Naghrillah
“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, who hung onto his belt and danced fox trots on the tops of his shoes, cannot accept that Daddy is not here anymore.” KnowsYearsMatterDeathGirlAcceptingFiveShoesFive YearsLife And DeathFortyMatureHungFoxesDaddyBeltsOld WomanFive Year Olds Author:Mary-Lou Weisman