Confucius would give his seat to an old woman. Communist cadres, on the other hand, took the best seats and called it a cultural revolution.
When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I'll still be fly.
If there's one thing I've learned in this life, it's that you never say no to an old gypsy woman with a blind eye and leprous fingernails.
The Witch's Life" When I was a child there was an old woman in our neighborhood whom we called The Witch. All day she peered from her second story window from behind the wrinkled curtains and sometimes she would open the window and yell: Get out of my life! She had hair like kelp and a voice like a boulder. I think of her sometimes now and wonder if I am becoming her.
In Yale they convinced me I had no talent, even though I was always working. They cast me mostly as prostitutes and old women, and I stayed because I loved the writers. I loved Chris Durang and Wendy Wasserstein. I was always doing their work in the Yale Cabaret.
You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself.
Death laughs when old women frolic.
If I ever saw my muse she would be an old woman with a tight bun and spectacles poking me in the middle of the back and growling, "Wake up and write the book!
Early every morning an old woman goes to the market to curse a grocery clerk, who curses back.
I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
I played an old woman in a wheelchair at 18.
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
There are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat.
I hadn't published a book of poetry in over a decade because I've been very ill. As I got better and started to write, I said, 'Wow, even as an old woman, I could have a selected book of poems.'
I'm just a tough old woman.
I like women to be attracted to me. See, when you get 60 years old, and they know you're 60, the only women you can get are 55-year-old women, and I like younger women.
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
I learned a woman is never an old woman.
The public is anold woman.Let her maunderand mumble.
In actual life I am a grumpy old bag.
At 16, I got housing benefit, and I had my own flat in an old woman's house. I was the only 16-year-old I knew living alone.
When I was young, I lived like an old woman, and when I got old, I had to live like a young person.
Nearly everyone could be undone by an old woman's displeasure.
WITCH, n. (1) Any ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil. (2) A beautiful and attractive young woman, in wickedness a league beyond the devil.
