Young Woman

Famous quotes containing the words young and/or woman:

“Life is the desert, life the solitude,
Death joins us to the great majority.”
—Edward Young (1683–1765)

“It is said that when manners are licentious, a revolution is always near: the virtue of woman being the main girth and bandage of society; because a man will not lay up an estate for children any longer than whilst he believes them to be his own.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)