Famous quotes containing the words young woman, young and/or woman:
“Oh! thats in courseI do love him; why wouldnt I? for he has a nice little room all decently furnished for any young woman to go intobesides the shop; and he never has the horses at all into the one we sleeps in, as is to be.”
—Anthony Trollope (18151882)
“Half-opening her lips to the frosts morning sigh, how strangely the rose has smiled on a swift-fleeting day of September!
How audacious it is to advance in stately manner before the blue-tit fluttering in the shrubs that have long lost their leaves, like a queen with the springs greeting on her lips;
to bloom with steadfast hope that, parted from the cold flower-bed, she may be the last to cling, intoxicated, to a young hostesss breast.”
—Afanasi Fet (18201892)
“The talk of sheltering woman from the fierce storms of life is the sheerest mockery, for they beat on her from every point of the compass, just as they do on man, and with more fatal results, for he has been trained to protect himself, to resist, to conquer.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (18151902)