#oman

I've never stabbed, hurt, killed, stolen, anything, but I went to jail for a year. What is that? My pastor said to me the fact that I'm not living under a bridge as a crazy woman, talking to myself, is amazing. ↗

— Foxy Brown

#anything #bridge #crazy #fact #hurt

Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others. ↗

— John Mason Brown

#casts #charm #glow #light #most

You are absolutely beautiful," Anne said. "But if you see yourself, you'll want to pin your hair back like a shepherdess in a bad play." (Eleanor) "Are you saying that I normally look as if I'm tending sheep? With straw in my hair? As if I might yodel? ↗

— Eloisa James

#historical-romance #beauty

In order for a man to be truly evil, he must be a woman. ↗

— Craig Bruce

#man #must #order #truly #woman

I think that musicians should never forget about the intimacy of bringing two people together, and the aesthetic transference where you're almost vicariously involved in a romance between other people. ↗

— Joe Williams

#aesthetic #almost #between #bringing #forget

The common prejudice that love is as common as "romance" may be due to the fact that we all learned about it first through poetry. But the poets fool us; they are the only ones to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#romance #experience

The earliest form in which romances appear is that of a rude kind of verse. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#earliest #form #kind #romances #rude

She wasn't certain of exactly what they had together; she doubted Owen knew, either; but whatever it was, she desperately wanted to hold on to it. They were only at the beginning of what they could become together; if she could help it, she would do anything that she could to keep it from ending. ↗

— Dorothy Garlock

#uncertainty-of-relationship #relationship

The Romans held Britain from the invasion of Julius Caesar till their voluntary withdrawal from the island, A.D. 420,- that is, about five hundred years. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#britain #caesar #five #held #hundred

Usually comedy is only available to us ladies in the romantic comedy. That's why I hate romantic comedies. ↗

— Sandra Bullock

#comedies #comedy #hate #i #ladies