“Never cross a woman with a star on a stick, young lady. They've got a mean streak.”
Terry Pratchett book The Wee Free Men
Source: The Wee Free Men
“A woman being never at a loss… the devil always sticks by them.”
Source: Lord Byron: Selected Letters and Journals,
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Camille Paglia (1947) American writer
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 11
Halle Berry (1966) American actress
Cindy Pearlman (November 17, 2002) "Female Bonding - Hot on the Heels of her Academy-Award Winning Turn in 'Monster's Ball,' Halle Berry Shares the Screen With 007", Chicago Sun-Times, p. 1.
“A witty woman is a devil at intrigue.”
Molière (1622–1673) French playwright and actor
Une femme d'esprit est un diable en intrigue.
L'École des Femmes (1662), Act III, sc. iii
Helen Clark (1950) 37th Prime Minister of New Zealand
Quoted in " 'I have the skills for the job' - Helen Clark on bid for top UN job https://www.radiolive.co.nz/WATCH-I-have-the-skills-for-the-job---Helen-Clark-on-bid-for-top-UN-job/tabid/504/articleID/117913/Default.aspx" (5 April 2016)
“Islam never punishes just the woman, but always both the woman and the man”
Ali Gomaa (1951) Egyptian imam
Context: Interviewer: What about the way women are punished?
Ali Gum'a: Polygamy is one thing, and the punishment is another. Islam never punishes just the woman, but always both the woman and the man.... There is no bias against women. Adultery is a sin for both men and women.
“Loss could be used as a measure of beauty in a woman.”
Alice Sebold book The Lovely Bones
Source: The Lovely Bones