Bear Woman

Famous quotes containing the words bear and/or woman:

    “Their legs long, delicate and slender, aquamarine their eyes,
    Magical unicorns bear ladies on their backs.
    The ladies close their musing eyes. No prophecies,
    Remembered out of Babylonian almanacs,
    Have closed the ladies’ eyes, their minds are but a pool
    Where even longing drowns under its own excess....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “The misery of the middle-aged woman is a grey and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.”
    —Germaine Greer (b. 1939)