Woman Thou Art

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

    “Thou art come at length
    more beautiful
    than any cool god....”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “Slowly ... the truth is dawning upon women, and still more slowly upon men, that woman is no stepchild of nature, no Cinderella of fate to be dowered only by fairies and the Prince; but that for her and in her, as truly as for and in man, life has wrought its great experiences, its master attainments, its supreme human revelations of the stuff of which worlds are made.”
    —Anna Garlin Spencer (1851–1931)

    “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.”
    —Bible: Hebrew Exodus, 20:17.

    The tenth commandment.

    “People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and art, but according to the immutable principles of the art of composition, and the special laws of their individual temperaments.”
    —Victor Hugo (1802–1885)