Modern Ladies Quotes

#1. Gone are the days when women were attracted by a man's hansomeness. Today, we are talking about cash, and your compromise to become a tiger in bed.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#2. The need to become a separate self is as urgent as the yearning to merge forever. And as long as we, not our mother, initiate parting, and as long as our mother remains reliably there, it seems possible to risk, and even to revel in, standing alone.

Judith Viorst

#3. He looked exactly the same as he did the last time she'd seen him three years ago: tall, dark, and scowling.

Julie James

#4. I lived in New York for 10 years, and every New Yorker sees a shrink.

Meg Rosoff

#5. Riding in a carriage without an escort is modern. But traveling out and about unescorted is unheard of.

Jordan Stratford

#6. Presented memorial to [Constitutional Convention] committee on sufferage. Was very courteously treated. We all felt it a great day in the history of Utah. The committee informed us they had passed on W[oman] S[uffrage] being ten to five in favor.

Ruth May Fox

#7. When it comes to my daughter, I'm a conservative. But when it comes to your daughter, I'm a liberal!

Carlos Mencia

#8. There was no wind which could have swept my thoughts away from my bositerous heart; not that day, not this day and not any other day

Pushpa Rana

#9. Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.

Stevie Wonder

#10. Traditional Botswana men like ladies who are more traditionally shaped. You and I, Mma. We remind men of how things used to be in Botswana before these modern-shaped ladies started to get men all confused.

Alexander McCall Smith

#11. And it is change that always provides the opportunity for the new and different. Systematic innovation therefore consists in the purposeful and organized search for changes, and in the systematic analysis of the opportunities such changes might offer for economic or social innovation.

Peter F. Drucker

#12. It's not a responsibility to be a fashion diva. I enjoy it and also enjoy getting up in morning and putting on make-up, getting ready. I don't think there is any girl who doesn't like to look good and wear good clothes.

Sonam Kapoor

#13. Manhandling the open here spout on a milk carton so badly that one has to resort to using the illegal side.

Rich Hall

#14. She [Evelina] is not, indeed, like most modern young ladies; to be known in half an hour; her modest worth, and fearful excellence, require both time and encouragement to show themselves.

Fanny Burney

#15. If you salt a chicken the day before cooking, it starts to break down the cell structure of the meat and allows it to take on more flavor and actually helps it to stay more moist. Same goes for a steak, a pork chop. A lot of people brine; we preseason.

Michael Symon

#16. Listen: Common sense doesn't mean what it used to mean.
-Matthias Chalmers, STAIRWAY2 HEAVEN

Chaz Thompson