Mad Black Woman

Famous quotes containing the words mad, black and/or woman:

    It is scarcely exaggeration to say that if one is not a little mad about Balzac at twenty, one will never live; and if at forty one can still take Rastignac and Lucien de Rubempre at Balzac’s own estimate, one has lived in vain.
    Willa Cather (1873–1947)

    the black wings
    of the

    hospital where
    nothing

    will grow
    William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)

    A man assumes that a woman’s refusal is just part of a game. Or, at any rate, a lot of men assume that. When a man says no, it’s no. When a woman says no, it’s yes, or at least maybe. There is even a joke to that effect. And little by little, women begin to believe in this view of themselves.
    Erica Jong (b. 1942)