Woman Thou Art

Famous quotes containing the words thou art, woman, thou and/or art:

    Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
    When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
    Robert Greene (1558?–1592)

    All history attests that man has subjected woman to his will, used her as a means to promote his selfish gratification, to minister to his sensual pleasures, to be instrumental in promoting his comfort; but never has he desired to elevate her to that rank she was created to fill. He has done all he could to debase and enslave her mind; and now he looks triumphantly on the ruin he has wrought, and say, the being he has thus deeply injured is his inferior.
    Sarah M. Grimke (1792–1873)

    Now thou and I are new in amity.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
    Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)