Irish Women

Famous quotes containing the words irish and/or women:

“I hope you will not be washed away by the Irish sea.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion—far less by the white fire of love.”
—Mary Webb (1881–1927)