Famous quotes containing the words strange and/or woman:
“Southern trees bear a strange fruit
Blood on the leaf and blood at the root
Black bodies swingin’ in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hangin’ in the poplar trees.”
—Billie Holiday [Eleanor Fagan] (1915–1959)
“I think being a woman is like being Irish.... Everyone says you’re important and nice, but you take second place all the same.”
—Iris Murdoch (b. 1919)