Woman Thou Art

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

    O Julius Caesar, thou art mighty yet!
    Thy spirit walks abroad and turns our swords
    In our own proper entrails.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    A woman simply is, but a man must become. Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men.... Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
    Camille Paglia (b. 1947)

    Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber.
    Thou hast no figures, nor no fantasies,
    Which busy care draws in the brains of men;
    Therefore thou sleep’st so sound.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    The manuscript lay like a dust-rag on his desk, and Eitel found, as he had found before, that the difficulty of art was that it forced a man back on his life, and each time the task was more difficult and distasteful.
    Norman Mailer (b. 1923)