WOMAN in Classic Quotes

1  A pox on 'em--turning an honest woman's house into a brothel.'

Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
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2  There's no trusting man nor woman; nor fine speeches; nor fine looks.

Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
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3  The old woman looked down at the dead flowers she was carrying and cut her.

Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
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4  She would have been, he thought, a very clever woman, had she fixed her gaze.

Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
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5  The old woman had wandered out into the passage and leant against the window.

Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
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6  But, woman of action as she was, deserted by the male sex, she was not going to suffer tortures of boredom from the refeened old lady.

Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
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7  Automatically he consulted his watch; noted time to water at seven; and observed the little game of the woman following the man to the table in the West as in the East.

Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
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8  And Trixie was not a name that suited, as Sands did, the thin, acid woman, red-haired, sharp and clean, who never dashed off masterpieces, it was true; but then never dropped hairpins in the soup.

Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
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