Scarlet woman can refer to:
- A prostitute
- The Whore of Babylon, a figure in the Book of Revelation
- Babalon, a figure in Thelema
- A woman who attains unwanted notoriety by engaging in adultery
Famous quotes containing the words scarlet and/or woman:
“Let us have a good many maples and hickories and scarlet oaks, then, I say. Blaze away! Shall that dirty roll of bunting in the gun-house be all the colors a village can display? A village is not complete, unless it have these trees to mark the season in it. They are important, like the town clock. A village that has them not will not be found to work well. It has a screw loose, an essential part is wanting.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“This woman is headstrong, obstinate and dangerously self- opinionated.”
—Report by Personnel Officer at I.C.I., rejecting Mrs. Thatcher for a job in 1948.