#young woman

Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it. ↗

— William Wycherley

#beauty #handsome #i #i think #more

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#goddess #love #love is #merely #mistake

It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#cook #easier #socrates #than #woman

When I came back to Britain, I realized that I was no longer a very young woman. I had to meet my new consciousness, my new age, with roles that reflected it somewhat. ↗

— Julie Christie

#back #britain #came #consciousness #had

I never got to make that transition from little girl to young woman... and that really screws you up. ↗

— Natalie Cole

#got #i #little #little girl #make

No time to marry, no time to settle down; I'm a young woman, and I ain't done runnin' around. ↗

— Bessie Smith

#done #down #i #marry #settle

For that story, I took as my subject a young woman whom I got to know over the course of a couple of visits. I never saw her having any health problems - but I knew she wanted to be married. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#couple #course #got #having #health

I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect. ↗

— Sandra Cisneros

#being #big #big mouth #bumps #child

I went to Concord, a young woman from the backwoods, firm in belief that Emerson was the first of living men. He was the modern Moses who had talked with God apart and could interpret Him to us. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#belief #concord #could #emerson #firm

Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#battle #better #come #fight #her