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“What work you do! It's strange work for a Christian girl to hang old women!”

Christian Girl Strange Old Woman

Book:The Crucible

Source: The Crucible

“I’m turning into an old woman. Might as well start knitting and bitching about soap operas, gas prices, and rude drivers.” – Sundown”

Wells Might Gas Drivers Opera Rude Soap Old Woman Knitting Soap Operas Gas Prices

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“The old women only stuck around this long out of a sense of duty. Your mom was the same way. That's why I loved her. She put her duty first, ahead of evverything.”

Way Firsts Long Duty Mom Stuck Your Mom Old Woman

Author:Rick Riordan

“An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb”

Bones Dry Old Woman Uneasy Things Fall Apart Okonkwo Things Fall Apart Important Dry Bones Okonkwo

Author:Chinua Achebe

“Look at me, he said to her. His arms and legs jerked. Look at me. You got your wish. I have learned how to love. And it’s a terrible thing. I’m broken. My heart is broken. Help me. The old woman turned and hobbled away. Come back, thought Edward. Fix me”

Looks Heart Said Helping Wish Broken Arms My Heart Terrible Legs Help Me I Have Learned Look At Me Terrible Things Old Woman How To Love Arms And Legs My Heart Is Broken

Author:Kate DiCamillo

“A hysterical young woman with flowing brown hair is also called from 4, but she's quickly replaced by a volunteer, an eighty-year-old woman who needs a cane to walk to the stage.”

Needs Years Young Walks Stage Hair Brown Replaced Young Women Volunteer Eighty Old Woman Hysterical Brown Hair

Book:The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Source: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

“It was about a girl who helps an ugly old woman who turns out to be a good fairy in disguise. Inner values versus shallow appearances.”

Helping Values Turns Girl Appearance Ugly Fairy Disguise Shallow Versus Old Woman

Book:Bellwether

Source: Bellwether

“Yes, of course. I was on her like, um... I believe that old woman last week we took after she'd burnt down her house cooking said 'like white on rice.”

Believe Said Lasts Courses House I Believe White Week Cooking Rice Old Woman

Author:Abbi Glines

“It was certainly not this mummified and outrageously painted old woman he was seeing before him, but the entire "female species," as it was his custom to call women. The individual disappeared, the features were obliterated, whether young or senile, beautiful or ugly - those were mere unimportant variations. Behind each woman rises the austere, sacred and mysterious face of Aphrodite.”

Beautiful Faces Young Individual Behinds Seeing Female Sacred Mere Species Ugly Mysterious Features Customs Variation Unimportant Old Woman Aphrodite Senile

Author:Nikos Kazantzakis

“I ain’t the only old woman looking. I’m just the only one honest enough to admit it. The others just hire the boy to cut their grass so they can sit at the window and drool.”

Enough Boys Cutting Honest Window Grass Old Woman

Book:The Vincent Boys

Source: The Vincent Boys

“The fact is that nothing is more difficult to believe than the truth; conversely, nothing seduces like the power of lies, the greater the better. It's only natural, and you will have to find the right balance. Having said that, let me add that this particular old woman hasn't been collecting only years; she has also collected stories, and none sadder or more terrible than the one she's about to tell you. You have been at the heart of this story without knowing it until today.”

Years Believe Heart Has Beens Said Facts Stories Today Lying Difficult Natural Knowing Greater Particular Balance Terrible Let Me Add Collecting Old Woman Seducing

Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“It's just because I love the past that I want this house to look back on its glamourous moment of youth and beauty, and I want its stairs to creak as if to the footsteps of women with hoop skirts and men in boots and spurs. But they've made it into a blondined, rouged-up old woman of sixty.”

Ifs Men Want Looks Made Moments Past House Youth Made It Boots Sixty Stairs Footsteps Skirts Spurs Old Woman

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. I see her, an old woman, weeping for me on the anniversary of this day. I see her and her husband, their course done, lying side by side in their last earthly bed, and I know that each was not more honoured and held sacred in the other's soul, than I was in the souls of both.”

Knows Heart Soul Done Lasts Lying Courses Sides Generations Bed Husband Sacred This Day Weeping Sanctuary Old Woman Descendants Tale Of Two Cities

Book:a tale of two cities

Source: a tale of two cities

“Do you suppose you will look the same when you are an old woman as you do now? Most folk have three faces—the face they get when they’re children, the face they own when they’re grown, and the face they’ve earned when they’re old. But when you live as long as I have, you get many more. I look nothing like I did when I was a wee thing of thirteen. You get the face you build your whole life, with work and loving and grieving and laughing and frowning.”

Looks Children Long Whole Faces Three Laughing Folks Whole Life Grieving Old Woman Thirteen Frowning

Author:Catherynne M. Valente

“The Witch's Life" When I was a child there was an old woman in our neighborhood whom we called The Witch. All day she peered from her second story window from behind the wrinkled curtains and sometimes she would open the window and yell: Get out of my life! She had hair like kelp and a voice like a boulder. I think of her sometimes now and wonder if I am becoming her.”

Ifs Thinking Children Sometimes Stories Voice Behinds Wonder Hair Becoming Window Neighborhood Witch Curtains Old Woman Boulders

Book:The Awful Rowing Toward God

Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God

“One of the stall doors swings open and a fortyish-year-old woman walks out tucking her shirt into her jeans. Her heavy lined eyes land on Seth. "This is the women's restroom." She points a finger to the door. "Can't you read?" "Can't you see that everyone in this club is about twenty years younger than you?" Seth retorts, turning to the mirror. With his pinkie, he messes with bangs. "Now if you'll excuse us, we're going to have some fun.”

Ifs Years Eye Fun Walks Doors Land Twenties Mirrors Fingers Clubs Excuse Heavy Mess Shirts Swings Jeans Bangs Old Woman Restroom Retorts

Book:The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden

Source: The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden

“He held her gaze steady while he summarized her promises. “She will honor me, protect me, obey me only when she believes I’m being reasonable—but I shouldn’t hold out hope that that day will ever come—try to love me before she’s an old woman, and I’d better get it straight in my mind that she will respect me until or unless I do something to prove I’m not worthy, and God save me then. Have I left anything out, Brenna?”

Trying Mind Believe Left Honor Promise Protect Prove Worthy Reasonable Steady Old Woman Save Me Not Worthy Respect Me

Book:The Wedding

Source: The Wedding

“You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love.”

People Knows Way Done Wanted Forget Return Selfish Generous Old Woman Emily

Book:Annotated The Mysterious Affairs at Styles with English Grammar Exercises: by Agatha Christie (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

Source: Annotated The Mysterious Affairs at Styles with English Grammar Exercises: by Agatha Christie (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

“He whipped out his sheet, then pulled it over himself and wrapped it tightly around his face like an old woman in a shawl. 'How do I look?' 'Like the ugliest shanky girl I’ve ever seen,' Minho responded. 'You better thank the gods above you were born a dude.' 'Thanks.”

Looks Faces Girl Born Thanks Sheets Old Woman Scorch Trials

Book:The Maze Runner Trilogy

Source: The Maze Runner Trilogy

“Little Red was a tender young morsel, and the wolf knew she would be even tastier than the old woman.”

Littles Would Be Young Red Old Woman

Author:Marissa Meyer

“If ever you get to be my age," said the old woman, "you will know all there is to know about regrets, and you will know that one more, here or there, will make no difference in the long run.”

Ifs Knows Long Said Running Age Differences Regret Long Runs Old Woman

Author:Neil Gaiman

“And did I pass?" The face of the old woman on my right was unreadable in the gathering dusk. On my left the younger woman said, "You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear.”

Persons Said Faces Left Failing Dear Gathering Old Woman Dusk

Author:Neil Gaiman

“You can see where it was, years ago. Like an old woman who was once beautiful, but time has taken her beauty away.”

Years Beautiful Taken Years Ago Old Woman Her Beauty

Book:Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass

“Er," Oliver said. "He talks even less than the one Lily married," the crone remarked to Walter. "Though when the mood strikes him, he asks just as many questions as Galem." "I'm sorry," Oliver said weakly. The old woman nodded. "You are forgiven," she pronounced in a queenly tones.”

Said Asks Married Sorry Strikes Mood Tone I'm Sorry Forgiven Lilies Old Woman Galen

Book:Princess of the Silver Woods

Source: Princess of the Silver Woods

“There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.”

Soul Age Past Time Three Class Aging Dear Divided Witch Seventies Old Woman Old Soul

Book:Specimens of the table talk of the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: Specimens of the table talk of the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“You don't spend ten years appealing to middle-aged women and then suddenly turn around and start trying to connect with 25-year-old women. You're almost certainly going to alienate the people who have an investment in your brand, and there's no guarantee you're going to be successful with the new group.”

People Trying Years Turns Business Successful Groups Middle Ten Investment Brands Guarantees Being Successful Old Woman Middle Aged

Author:Kevin Lane Keller

“Once I was looking through the kitchen window at dusk and I saw an old woman looking in. Suddenly the light changed and I realized that the old woman was myself. you see, it all happens on the outside; inside one doesn't change.”

Light Happens Saws Changed Window I Realized Kitchen Birthday Old Woman Dusk 60th Birthday Inspirational Birthday Wise Birthday Milestone Birthday

Author:Molly Keane

“Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you can't do it. In my day I was told women didn't go into chemistry. I saw no reason why we couldn't.”

“We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.”

Men Political Culture Justice Rights Diversity Claims Social Justice Entitled Old Woman Political Rights

Book:Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings

Source: Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings

“Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.”

“The old woman was not only ugly with the ugliness age brings us all but showed signs of formidable ugliness by birth - pickle-jar chin, mainsail ears and a nose like a trigonometry problem. What's more, she had the deep frown and snit wrinkles that come from a lifetime of bad character.”

Character Problem Age Birth Ears Lifetime Ugly Noses Sarcastic Ugliness Wrinkles Chins Jars Old Woman Formidable Pickles Bad Character Trigonometry

Book:Holidays in Hell

Source: Holidays in Hell

“My children love my mother, and I tell my children, that is not the same woman I grew up with...That is an old woman trying to get into heaven now.”

Trying Children Mother Heaven Family Grew Grew Up My Children Old Woman Children Love Funny Family

Author:Bill Cosby

“It is a terrible thing for an old woman to outlive her dogs.”

Loss Dog Terrible Terrible Things Old Woman

Book:Camino Real

Source: Camino Real

“This is all very fine, but it won't do-Anatomy-botany-Nonsense! Sir, I know an old woman in Covent Garden, who understands botany better, and as for anatomy, my butcher can dissect a joint full as well; no, young man, all that is stuff; you must go to the bedside, it is there alone you can learn disease! Comment to Hans Sloane on Robert Boyle's letter of introduction describing Sloane as a 'ripe scholar, a good botanist, a skilful anatomist'.”

“It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen.”

Men Years Old Man Unfair Old Woman

Author:George Clooney

“I dress like an old woman in my real life. If you're having conversations with people, you don't want them to remember you as the girl with the tits, You want them to pay attention to what you're saying”

People Ifs Want Real Funny Remember Girl Pay Attention Conversation Dresses Real Life Pay Attention Remember You Remembers You Old Woman

Author:Jennifer Lawrence

“In the sheltered heart of the clumps last year's foliage still clings to the lower branches, tatters of orange that mutter with the passage of the wind, the talk of old women warning the green generation of what they, too, must come to when the sap runs back.”

Years Heart Stills Running Lasts Women Generations Wind Green Winter Branches Warning Passages Last Year Orange Old Woman Sap Foliage

Book:A land

Source: A land

“When I see young men and old women come out of the closet and face being called faggots and dykes and pariahs and betrayers of the family dream, then I am honored to be gay because I belong to a people who are proud.”

People Men Dream Faces Young Proud Gay Young Man Closets Honored Old Woman Pariahs Dykes

Author:Arnie Kantrowitz

“Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.”

“Nearly everyone could be undone by an old woman's displeasure.”

Undone Old Woman Displeasure

Book:The Devil in Silver: A Novel

Source: The Devil in Silver: A Novel

“I don't have great thighs. I have very big breasts and a soft, fatty little tummy. And I've got back fat. People assume that I'm walking around in little spaghetti-strap dresses. It's insidious - Glam Jamie, the Perfect Jamie, the great figure, blah, blah, blah. And I don't want the unsuspecting 40-year-old women of the world to think that I've got it going on. It's such a fraud. And I'm the one perpetuating it.”

“Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.”

“Yeah, I'm a geek. I read sci-fi and I watch sci-fi films. I love my computer and I love to fix it. I'm a total nerd. I literally am a 12-year-old geeky boy trapped in a 32-year-old woman's body.”

Years Body Film Boys Watches Computer Yeah Sci Fi Trapped Nerd Geek Old Woman Women's Bodies Sci Fi Film

Author:Amber Benson

“I love the confidence! I am who I am, and I know who I am. I respect what you have to say, but I'm not listening to you, and your opinion is not affecting me. I am a 49-year-old woman. Don't tell me! That's what I love!”

Knows Years Opinion Listening Who I Am Old Woman I Am Who I Am

Author:Wendy Williams

“To be honest Im quite boring I love to go bowling and to the moviesWhen it comes to my wardrobe I think I dress like a 30 year old woman”

Thinking Years Honest Dresses Boring Being Honest Wardrobe Old Woman Bowling

Author:Selena Gomez

“I learned a woman is never an old woman.”

Author:Joni Mitchell

“You know, my hair is very upsetting to people, but it's upsetting on purpose. It is important to look old so that the young will not be afraid of dying. People don't like old women. We don't honor age in our society, and we certainly don't honor it in Hollywood.”

People Knows Looks Important Age Young Purpose Dying Hair Honor Hollywood Upset Our Society Old Woman

Author:Tyne Daly

“Old women should not seek to be perfumed.”

Should Old Woman

Author:Archilochus

“One day when Thomas Aquinas was preaching to the local populace on the love of God, he saw an old woman listening attentively to his every word. And inspired by her eagerness to learn more about her God whom she loved so dearly, he said to the people: It is better to be this unlearned woman, loving God with all her heart, than the most learned theologian lacking love.”

People Heart Said Saws Listening One Day Inspired Locals God Love Preaching Lacking Theologian Loving God Old Woman Eagerness

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“If I were a 40-year-old woman, 40-to-50, I'd want to be getting my mammograms. They catch cancers, and cancer is very curable if you catch it early.”

Ifs Want Years Cancer Old Woman Mammograms

Author:Ann Romney