#oman

I long to play a judge. I long to play a lesbian woman. I long to play a councilman, someone with some chutzpah. ↗

— Lupe Ontiveros

#judge #lesbian #long #play #some

I got a woman that's mean as she can be, sometimes I think she's almost as mean as me. ↗

— Roy Orbison

#got #i #i think #me #mean

Pretty woman, I don't believe you, you're not the truth. No one could look as good as you, mercy. ↗

— Roy Orbison

#could #good #i #look #mercy

Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her. ↗

— Pope Paul VI

#failing #greatest #her #man #sin

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. ↗

— Cesare Pavese

#clever #enough #fall #first #him

In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov! ↗

— Bernadette Peters

#career #challenging #chekhov #gay #jewish

The Germanic invasions destroyed neither the Mediterranean unity of the ancient world, nor what may be regarded as the truly essential features of the Roman culture as it still existed in the 5th century, at a time when there was no longer an Emperor in the West. ↗

— Henri Pirenne

#century #culture #destroyed #emperor #essential

If I looked like him,” Tara said. “I’d want to have sex with myself. All the time. ↗

— Jill Shalvis

#humour #romance #romantic-comedy #funny

Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#apparently #both #cambridge #complex #difficult

The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#direct #direct proportion #generally #her #passing