I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect.
She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
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Oscar Wilde
Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her? Never mind physically but betray her in his mind, in the very "poetry of his soul". Well, it's not easy but men do it all the time.
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Mario Puzo
If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.
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Arthur Golden
It's hard to love a woman and do anything.
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Leo Tolstoy
More Quotes By Sandra Cisneros
We're going to right the world and live. I mean live our lives the way lives were meant to be lived. With the throat and wrists. With rage and desire, and joy and grief, and love till it hurts, maybe. But goddamn, girl. Live.
I'm not saying I'm not bad. I'm not saying I'm special. But I'm not like the Allport Street girls, who stand in doorways and go with men into alleys. All I know is I didn't want it like that. Not against the bricks or hunkering...
Everywhere I go, it's me and me. Half of me living my life, the other half watching me live it.
Once you tell a man he's pretty, there's no taking it back. They think they're pretty all the time, and I suppose, in a way, they are. It's got to do with believing it.
Okay, we didn’t work, and allmemories to tell you the truth aren’t good. But sometimes there were good times. Love was good. I loved your crooked sleepbeside me and never dreamed afraid. There should be stars for great warslike ours.
