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)

    “Women who assume authority are unnatural. Unnatural women are lesbians. Therefore all the leaders of the women’s movement were presumed to be lesbians.”
    —Jane O’Reilly, U.S. feminist and humorist. The Girl I Left Behind, ch. 8 (1980)