"Woman" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... him with an expression such as he never had seen before on a human face. Was it the autumn sunlight that illumined her features? He learned eventually that it was the spiritual radiance of the noblest self-sacrifice of which a woman is capable. ...
— A Face Illumined • E. P. Roe
... were lost in the old woman's voice,—'Now, sir, if you know him or his family, I wouldn't be wishing to do him no hinjury, nor to ruinate his prospects, being, as he says, that the rich lady will make him her hare; but, sir, if you have any power with ...
— Hopes and Fears - scenes from the life of a spinster • Charlotte M. Yonge
... "What would a woman be doing here as third mate?" I asked; for although I had come to the same conclusion some days before, I had said nothing ...
— Mr. Trunnell • T. Jenkins Hains
... else to go, I should be glad to leave it; but I can never get away from Gateshead till I am a woman." ...
— Jane Eyre - an Autobiography • Charlotte Bronte
... vanished Ralph closed the front door and locked it. He returned to the sitting-room to find his mother pale and trembling. Unable to stand, the poor woman had sunk back on ...
— The Young Bridge-Tender - or, Ralph Nelson's Upward Struggle • Arthur M. Winfield
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