"To be born woman is to know..." - Quote by William Butler Yeats
To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.
More by William Butler Yeats
“Though I am old with wandering Through hollow lands and hilly lands, I will find out where she has gone, And kiss her lips and take her hands; And walk among long dappled grass, And pluck till time and times are done The silver apples of the moon, The golden apples of the sun.”
“Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of.”
“rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination.”