"Do you not know I am a..." - Quote by William Shakespeare
Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak.
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“Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy.”
“Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.”
“Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy; Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear!”
More on Woman
“You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater mystery, woman.”
“The most beautiful curve on a woman’s body is her smile.”
“I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.”
More on Expression
“Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.”
“I need a little language such as lovers use, words of one syllable such as children speak when they come into the room and find their mother sewing and pick up some scrap of bright wool, a feather, or a shred of chintz. I need a howl; a cry. When the storm crosses the marsh and sweeps over me where I lie in the ditch unregarded I need no words. Nothing neat. Nothing that comes down with all its feet on the floor. None of those resonances and lovely echoes that break and chime from nerve to nerve in our breasts making wild music, false phrases. I have done with phrases.”
“If someone wants to say 'I love you' in a straight play, they say it, and then it's the other person's turn to talk. But in a song, you can sing about it for another three minutes. The musical form has that unique opportunity to express at length what joy really feels like.”