Tennessee Williams - Woman Quotes

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I never saw a more beautiful woman, enormous eyes, skin the color of Devonshire cream.

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But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark — that sort of make everything else seem — unimportant.

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-You're simple, straightforward and honest, a little bit on the primitive side, I should think. To interest you a woman would have to... -To lay her cards out on the table.

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It is a terrible thing for an old woman to outlive her dogs.

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I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth. - Blanche Scene II

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All of my gentlemen callers were sons of planters and of course I assumed that I would be married to one and raise my family on a large piece of land with plenty of servants. But man proposes — and woman accepts the proposal! — To vary that old, old saying a little bit — I married no planter! I married a man who worked for the telephone company!

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A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away.

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