As quoted in Funny Ladies : The Best Humor from America's Funniest Women (2001) by Bill Adler, p. 18
Tracey Ullman (1959) English-born actress, comedian, singer, dancer, screenwriter, producer, director, author and businesswoman
Quoted in 2009 in The Many States of Tracey Ullman https://tracey-archives.tumblr.com/post/119868522838/the-many-funny-states-of-tracey-ullman
“You cannot believe a woman, even when she is dead.”
Bernardo Dovizi (1470–1520) Italian cardinal and playwright
Act I, scene II. — (Polinico).
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 241.
La Calandria (c. 1507)
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Blonde on Blonde (1966), Just Like A Woman
“When a woman reaches forty, she must wait twenty years for her husband to catch up.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Marriage
“If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.”
D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter
Charles Frazier book Cold Mountain
Source: Cold Mountain
Lev Artsimovich (1909–1973) Soviet physicist
as quoted by E.E. Kintner at the Artsimovich Memorial Session of the Seventh International Conference on Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research
Julian of Norwich (1342–1416) English theologian and anchoress
The First Revelation, Chapter 4
Context: He brought our blessed Lady to my understanding. I saw her ghostly, in bodily likeness: a simple maid and a meek, young of age and little waxen above a child, in the stature that she was when she conceived.
