But when I saw how hard these women’s lives were, I was confused and sad. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She was almost as tall as her grandmother, but now the woman loomed above her, standing on the dock. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he spies a woman unfolding a lounge chair nearby and starts talking louder, I realize it’s for an audience. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Laughing contemptuously, the woman sauntered away, her hands filled with dirt-encrusted carrots. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some paper bills from a man’s pocket, a bracelet from a woman’s wrist—nothing too big. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

“You are the woman I love. Nothing can change that. But I feel this sense of responsibility about what I need to do.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I recognized the short, squat, mustached woman in the black uniform as the night maid who ironed day dresses and party frocks in a crowded cubicle on our floor. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He holds on tight, and the young woman is beaming beside him. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went down to the city instead, in search of naked women he wasn’t related to. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

An older woman leaned on a cane and stood up. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

At the dormitory the school official assigned her to a room with five other women, who were unpacking when she came in. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was older than Arya, though; almost sixteen, a woman grown. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“And so I shall. Your mother—what can I tell you? She was a wonderful woman.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

There were photos of girls and women of all different ages, professional websites, personal blogs, social media pages, and more. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The niece of these unfortunate women was Procris, and she was almost as unfortunate as they. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” Suesetta says, “the Detroit Housewives’ League has helped to create seventy thousand jobs for Negro men and women.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When I read this, I imagined my mother as a young woman, brilliant and energetic, but also anxious and complying. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“You are the best granddaughter an old woman could hope for. And now will you just look where we are?” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Cursing her incompetence, she stole one of Trotter’s magazines and cut from it a picture of a tall, beautiful black woman in an Afro. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Women in Kansas already had the right to vote in school elections, and many women’s rights leaders thought that there was a real possibility that full suffrage could be won there. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The snake woman turned to her husband, her cobra hood flaring. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

One day that September, the undercover operative who was pretending to be an insurance salesman stopped at a filling station in Fairfax and struck up a conversation with a woman working there. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I heard the woman speak sharply, but I was too far gone into sickness and panic to understand what she said. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

But none of us had thought to follow the woman, and as the seconds kept ticking on, it became like we were agreeing, without speaking, about how we now saw the situation. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The trouble comes from comparison, you see. If I say ‘she was dark-haired,’ you might think, ‘I’ve known dark-haired women, some of them lovely.’ The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A woman stepped out of a different office, holding cleaning supplies. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She had only recently become the first woman in her family with a college degree and, if everything went well this day, would be the first nurse anybody in her family knew personally. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The day the Anne Frank Center received our application, a woman named Beatrice called and said she’d been “crying in her coffee all morning” because our application was so amazing. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

They reach womanhood when they turn thirteen, just like boys reach manhood, and then they’re women and they become wives. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

When I reached the testing station, I observed a white woman ahead of me in the middle of her test. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She may have respected Woodhull, but she also realized that tensions were rising and the debate was dividing the women’s movement and weakening the National Woman Suffrage Association. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

A tearful queen was being led out of the room by frozen-faced women, and the king sat stiffly on his throne, his eyes fixed on a paper clutched in his hands. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The woman looked surprised, caught halfway between saying yes and saying no. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The guards took women oh into the bushes at night, and most seemed to expect it and went along meekly enough. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Also, that the guys get to wear regular clothes and the women have to cover their heads and wear the heavy dresses.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Thus, the dignity of both women demanded that they never speak of dishes nor of swabbing. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

We shared our tent with six families, mostly women and children. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Down the walkway was a woman who must have been his mother. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Willowy women wearing tailored blazers stride by with silk scarves cleverly draped around their necks. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And in the fiery skies above Russia, women drop bombs and fly fighter planes in aerial combat against German pilots. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Behind Doctor Nolan I could see the body of a woman wearing a rumpled black-and-white checked robe and flung out on a cot as if dropped from a great height. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“It was pleasant just to have a conversation with so sensitive and intelligent a comrade and scientist,” the woman later said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Being the other woman is a huge turn-on, there’s no point denying it: you’re the one he can’t help but betray his wife for, even though he loves her. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman's friendly voice warmed the star, soothed her: just the right mixture of practicality and concern. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Some of us are in the ground now and some are above it, but we’re all women, made of the same scarred earth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other women’s rights legislation followed: Wyoming women were soon given the right to sue and be sued, to serve on juries, and to enter contracts. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He has a piece of bread, and he rips it and gives half to the woman. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Well, only part of it,” the woman conceded. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“These petitions are signed by 100,000 men and women, who...ask nothing less than universal emancipation,” said Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, who presented the petitions on behalf of the Loyal League. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I remember being told as a child, “If you don’t hit your woman, you don’t love her.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

A woman in the seat opposite looked up from her magazine. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The grouchy woman walked out of her shack. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I decided to read it to a young woman who lived next door. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A motherly-looking old woman with her head tied in a handkerchief, wearing a man's shoes and a man's heavy blue sweater. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We make a special call today for a young woman whose name we don’t know,” the priest said after he had recited all the others. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“Just like a woman to chew a man up and spit him out,” I said in unison with McNair, when he almost got bitten. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Every attractive young woman here became mysteriously suspect. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Everybody is getting excited about the American radio woman’s visit. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The woman stands up, turns her back, and strides to the center of the stage. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Women were always the crudest where other women were concerned. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Harrison called as they exited, leaving the old woman and her ghostly companion behind. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I imagined visiting the wicked country of Italy, where the men are taught to overcome virgins and the women know many freedoms. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The two women agreed to stay in touch. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

So the woman has not read any of the articles or biographies around. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the women in your life had their heads down. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The pencil woman had a hand to her forehead, as if perhaps all the bell ringing had given her a headache. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

But I’ll be gone soon and then you can take a wife but you’ll never find a woman who is worthy of you and I says yes I could. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then the woman opened her mouth and uttered a wail so loud and terrible that Malcolm had to cover his ears. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The butcher, a short, chunky woman named Rooba, came to the back door when we knocked. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“It doesn’t suit you at all. Is this how your lecturer wants you to look, like a bush woman?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He had enjoyed his Mexican holiday, and still was unable to proffer a bit of kindness to the woman who had waited patiently, busying herself with housewifely duties. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

"And how if the High King then demands that we send back the barbarian woman, his sister?" The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Soon both native and African women were bringing her specimens and describing uses for each leaf, worm, and beetle. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He was comfortable, cozy even, and absorbed in a magazine article when a woman and a little boy came up to ask if they could share his table. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

At the beginning they mingled awkwardly, clutching their drinks, and then the coordinator of the evening, a tall, striking woman named Kailynn, called the group to order. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Daoud Khan had been killed, but not before the communist rebels had killed some twenty members of his family, including women and grandchildren. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The majority report, written by Bingham, rejected Woodhull’s claims and declared that women were not citizens, but “members of the state.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The conservatives in the organization did not want the temperance group to have any link to suffrage, women’s rights, or the divorce issue. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The receptionist there gave her the name of a woman who might be able to help. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She guessed that he was used to it now, to the sound of a woman crying. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Often when sighting along an arrow, there to the side I would glimpse the young man or young woman, but when I looked directly, he or she would be old again. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A woman with a taste for brightly colored dresses is there whose breasts are probably soft sealskin purses now, and who may need a few things. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

What Priddy needed was a blanket legal order that would authorize him to sterilize a woman on explicitly eugenic grounds; one such test case would set the standard for a thousand. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Sixty of your hostages were sent off to Eastwatch and the Shadow Tower after they’d been fed. Edd Tollett took six wagons of women back to Long Barrow. The rest remain with us.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Walk right in,” the other said, propelling him by the elbow into a room where a man and a woman sat. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She just leaned over a bit, bumped against the white woman next to her, and was gone. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

It goes without saying that these fragments of her—a shoulder, beige, camel’s-hair, the side of a face, the back of a leg—belong to women who, seen whole, are not Cordelia. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Elsewhere, there were men working in the fields, and women carrying water in yokes across their shoulders. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He could pass through the Street of the Barbers and be shaved before he went to the house where the woman waited for him. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Her head reeling, Kit stood helpless as, one after the other, they rose and made their complaints, these men and women whom she scarcely recognized. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Brave Orchid turned suddenly—another Moon Orchid, this one a neat little woman with a bun. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Freshman English was taught by a cheerful woman in her late twenties who kept talking about something called the “essay form,” which, she assured us, we had learned in high school. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

As Leale considered his next move, a woman rushed through Ford’s to get to the president. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Great crews may have men or women of exceptional talent or strength; they may have outstanding coxswains or stroke oars or bowmen; but they have no stars. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

If the woman heard, she did not turn. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Our old backgammon set came out from under a stack of board games, and a few of the older women began to count their worry beads. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Uriah walks around the crowd of war criminals and points to a severe-looking Erudite woman with gray hair. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You ought to be ashamed of yourself,” says the woman who is not Grace. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

So, even though it was not tradition, after her husband died, the woman went to live with her newly married daughter in the city. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The young woman sitting in front of me was my best friend, Aech. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He was glad he hadn’t seen something like that—a grown woman, sobbing on a dirty grocery-store floor. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The woman wipes her face and keeps her arm around her son’s shoulders. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The woman behind the counter didn’t seem to be paying me any attention and instead was flipping through the newspaper. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Lupita let out her breath in relief as the women in the back finished their prayers. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

A woman stood there, outlined by the moon. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

But until now she had never seen another woman’s stomach. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d even built the furnace and molded the bricks herself, which is not an easy job, and even today, not the job of a woman. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

But once a woman decides she will have her baby, a pressing question arises: what are parents supposed to do once a child is born? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The women moved toward the door, but the door was blocked—by loyalty, by obedience. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

During the campaign, almost two thousand women, representing more than half of the states, took turns protesting. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The women I knew back in New York grumbled from down low in the gut, in messy plaints, everything spoken in 2 A.M. arias. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She smiled at the grim good women but the smile went away when she saw that they answered her with frowns. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mitraillette says that before the war the woman was quite a noted horticulturalist—the chauffeur/groundskeeper is in fact a skilled gardener—and she has bred and named a few of the roses herself. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Stone argued that a federal amendment would be easier to obtain once women showed that they could manage the vote on a state level. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

For example, I was terrified of car accidents, death, cancer, brain tumors, nuclear war, pregnant women, loud noises, strict teachers, elevators, and scads of other things. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

"Did you get a text message?" the woman in front of us says to the man next to her. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Again, Dede feels as if the woman has been eerily reading her thoughts. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were women and men and children, all with the same crazed expression of rage mixed with glee. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“They have everything,” a jet-black woman said in a shrill voice, “and we have nothing.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

A woman stood over him, tossing a baseball into a glove. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“The industry is regressive. I mean, the portrayal of women? The films are more misogynistic than the society.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Here and there I saw several attractive young women but carefully avoided giving them more than a glance. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

One woman looks into the camera and says that she absolutely must live on Butterfly Lane. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

"Then thank the gods that I am not Robert. My sweet queen is all the woman I desire." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Thundering toads,” Jennet would say, “I am but a poor woman with this wretched inn and a blind man to care for. I am sure God does not begrudge me my little economies.” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Especially about men and women. But I loved it all the same. The way he tells it I feel I am right there on the spot watching it all happen." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Already, management has brought in a woman to do what sounds like time-motion studies and there’s talk about switching to paying by the room. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there was Miss Adebayo, who drank brandy like Master and was nothing like Ugwu had expected a university woman to be. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Some god is angry,” I hear a woman keen. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

How he was found by a woman who already had two sons killed and didn’t want anyone else to die, so she took him back to her house. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I've no problems with my aunt, who spends her life fighting for important causes like women's rights and the end of poverty. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In short, I shouldn’t greatly deceive you,” Joe added, after a little grave reflection, “if I represented to you that the word of that young woman were, ‘without a minute’s loss of time.’” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Next to the slingshots were little piles of things I figured the woman was gonna shoot. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Laughing and shouting encouragement, the women watched from the side. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman was bestowed many honors and accolades throughout her life, but her daughter brought her greater joy than any of them. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

She wanted to study what the ATA was getting right, so she could go back to the United States and set up a similar program for women pilots in her own country. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

"Those are the guys," said a woman's voice. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The woman's face had turned white as snow and her mouth was opening and shutting like a halibut out of water and giving out a series of strangled gasps. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You be careful. That woman is so tight she can barely sit down, but that doesn’t change a thing. What would your father say?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The women around me breathe in, there’s a stirring in the room, like wind over grass. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old woman’s voice was low, but perfectly clear. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

This woman was the embodiment of Capitol shallowness. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The women gathered around and I showed them what I had while they laughed and did the things women do: flicked lint off my jacket, pressed me on the shoulder to make me sit down. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

There it was, behind the woman, its contents strewn across the floor. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“What happens to anybody? They got burned out, lost all their money, ended up here. Got no families, got no women—well, I think Bobby has one.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“She don’t need us no more!” the woman had called. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman must have been Ampai, and this big guy must be her nephew. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The woman with the gills nods and steps to the podium. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

In previous wars against Indigenous nations, British commanders had assigned ranger groups specific missions, but to fight the Cherokee, both the regular forces and the rangers would target even the elders, women, and children. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

You never know when you might come home and find Mam sitting by the fire chatting with a woman and a child, strangers. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Nhamo sat on the floor next to Grandmother’s bed and held the old woman’s cold hand. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s been other women in my life,” he admitted, “but nobody I wanted to marry but you.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Even some of the young women who were courting had come out, with basket! of provisions for the men. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

That day he could smell the pale, almost blue clay the old women used for plastering the walls. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“And when I crossed ‘AIDS, women, and poverty,’” he told his audience, “the message said, ‘There are no studies meeting those specifications.’” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Three young women he knew and would have enjoyed as companions had jobs and couldn’t get away in the middle of the week. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I finally found him standing in front of the beauty parlor, staring through the glass at a woman with a drier over her head. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman’s eyes and the display of her teeth made him remember the glassy eyes of the stuffed bobcat above the bar in Bibo. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

All Mr. Giancarlo used to say was Get that woman out of my room. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

A woman who used to go out to cut grass for thatching once came across a place where there was a great deal of grass. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I was doing all right even though I had never had a discussion about sex with a mature woman before. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman turns a little red and looks embarrassed. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

"He never lived, my princess. The women say . . He faltered, and Dany saw how the flesh hung loose on him, and the way he limped when he moved. "Tell me. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Her eyes lit up and she said, “Then we ask the class to vote by show of hands. Should a woman run for president or not?” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

All the women knew how to do this, but some people were so good at it that they could sell their pots. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

And one of the village women passing through, the one who gives me a good price on milk. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

One wall was entirely worked into a life-size portrait of a naked woman reclining. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

But I don’t see how on earth a black woman with any race pride could walk down the street with any black man wearing a conk—the emblem of his shame that he is black. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman’s hair was damp and askew, and a little kid, maybe two or three years old, was tugging at her skirt. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can come in now,” the woman said from the doorway. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Around the time of my tenth birthday, the Pakistani Army led a siege of a women’s madrasa in Islamabad, our nation’s capital. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Neither man nor woman, neither and both, cyclic, lunar, metamorphosing under the hand’s touch, changelings in the human cradle, they were no flesh of mine, no friends; no love between us. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I would be competing against some of the best fencers in the world, women I’d yet to face off against on the strip. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Wait, wait, wait,” said a very pretty woman in a short skirt and tight T-shirt. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

A plain young woman in a linen apron and cap was busy at the fireplace. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Their only respect was for what they would have described as “good Christian colored women.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

What surprises many of us today is the fact that so many women were opposed to women gaining the ballot. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

She was a big woman, twice the size of my mother, with milky skin and freckles. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Golden goblets, sad-looking women dressed in old-fashioned dresses, and roses that cry. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Janey and Jerrie thought that a fellow woman pilot and the person who had helped fund their testing would speak up for the Mercury 13, they were in for a shock. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You are not ashamed of yourself? If only you would spend your time praying for somebody to come and tell me what happened to Ugwu instead of spying on a married woman taking a bath.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Nearby, a woman sang a lullaby to a baby. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

With the convention drawing close, I worked with a speechwriter for the first time, a gifted young woman named Sarah Hurwitz who helped shape my ideas into a tight seventeen-minute speech. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“As I told you, there is no one here by the name of Alter Rosen,” a woman said, her voice strained by annoyance. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She turned and began talking to another woman. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

In other words, almost all of the women who voted supported suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

It was not like my parents fell in love—in Zimbabwe, if a woman becomes pregnant, our Shona tradition requires that she get married or else she brings shame on both families. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Head Peacekeeper Thread sent us with a message for you,” says the woman. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She said it like a woman in a dream, as if she was seeing herself from the outside. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Surely the women on these pages had husbands, some of them must. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

A woman flitted from the stove to several bowls on the counter, stirring and kneading and folding as she went. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Man, woman, man, in a ring of endless alternation round the table. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Faye said, “Now drink it down. I’m watching you. You’re not going to let an old woman get silly by herself.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But it wasn’t a man, it wasn’t a woman. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

There was a woman at a table there with her head in her hands. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The dream lunges at me a few seconds after I open my eyes and I see the woman, the words, and the title again. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

She grabbed at the younger woman by her braid, cursing in her language and dragging her back to their room. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“No. Gwydyon turned her into an owl, and to this day all owls sound like a weeping woman.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Over the next two weeks, I spent many hours in court arranging bail for the women. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m looking for the boy called Matt,” she said politely to the woman. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A woman’s collarbones, and the wonderful space between them. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But my father is staring down at this tiny sparrow of a woman, squinting into her eyes. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He fell in love with a woman named Sarah Miller. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“It usually takes a woman five or six months to get pregnant,” the doctor went on. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The woman said she didn’t notice much that she found unusual. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You men are all the same—you need a strong woman to keep you in place.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

They spun lazily in the warm breeze, tempting honest ration-buyers with glimpses of ripe, naked women lying in pools of fake blood. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crowd parted, and a couple of paramedics hustled out, rolling a woman on a stretcher. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The woman said something else that I couldn’t understand and I nearly wept in frustration. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Attached to the woman’s belt was a curled whip. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Her words quieted everyone, and the woman walked away. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

A delegation of nine hundred women from Cleveland. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I knew I was woefully inexperienced with women, but I didn’t have to admit to it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They had a maid to do that, probably a colored woman who... The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman in front of me sat up straighter. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she came to the farmhouse where the woman lived, she approached it cautiously, circling around it. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

A photograph of the two young women in flight helmets, grinning with pleasure, was splashed on the cover. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The Citizens Coordinating Committee, a group of prominent black men and women, mimeographed a leaflet and passed it around Montgomery. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

There, once again, was the beautiful woman from Ophie’s first day at Daffodil Manor, a friendly smile on her lips. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“You open up right this second!” the old woman squawked. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“You see,” he said, “I told you she was a young woman.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Linda told him to sit in the corner with the other children, while she went and helped the women. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The women and children sometimes heard gunfire as company guards took strikebreakers to the mine each day and strikers tried to stop them. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

He could imagine Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho women and children crossing the river and walking onto the battlefield. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

This woman had ruined the act of the beautiful dancers. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Remaining for the moment only two women sitting at a table, rather than a fortune-teller and an illusionist, an opportunity they are not frequently presented with. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I’d managed to connect with a group of professional women and form a kind of chatty, hands-on social cluster. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The woman fed her, and then handed her a broom and told her to sweep the yard. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the women were capable of lightning- fast mental math, rivaling their mechanical calculating machines for speed and accuracy. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Take the boy and the girl back into town. The girl can go with the women and the boy is well enough to fight alongside us.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Others mistook malignant changes for infection, sending women home with antibiotics only to have them return later, dying from metastasized cancer. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

One of the women had taken to sleeping in Weese's bed, and she got a piece of ripe blue cheese as well, and a wing off the capon that Weese had spoken of that morning. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The woman reached inside my mother’s dress pocket and pulled out a handful of chewed pork and handed it to me. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Poor fairy, poor tin soldier, poor Dustfinger and—she thought again of the woman with the dark blond hair. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“We got him,” said the woman with a blond ponytail. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s cash and a woman’s name from the ICE—Immigration and Customs Enforcement. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Men and women run here and there, seemingly aimless, while shamblers walk the street leisurely, grasping for whoever gets close. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Before all was said and done, she would, in fact, become the woman in Germany who more than any other would materially shape the destiny of the Nazi movement. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The man and woman stared at each other. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Can’t you make my hair a little darker, Pilar? My waist a little more slender? POT Dios, I look like an old woman!” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman pays for her things, collects her shopping bags from the clerk, and walks out of the store, not looking back, not even thanking us for letting her cut in front of us. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Duncan, a little woman with a bird face, started the service. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fierce woman, she was said to have beat up Papa Dozie once, after he left their sick child and went off to visit his mistress. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The heat was a misery for all of us in Fentress, but it was the women who suffered the most in their corsets and petticoats. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Those well-heeled people had all responded to something in the young bespectacled woman, something that gave them the feeling that she had a great future. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Rumors spread of half-clad women jiggling away, when in fact the dance was elegant, stylized, and rather chaste. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

"Xaro assures me that in Qarth, man and woman each retain their own property after they are wed. The dragons are mine." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I wondered what kind of love the woman felt for the inmate. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It skipped two generations of women in our family, but it sure didn’t bypass you, Laila. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The woman sitting on the counter didn’t remark on the change of hair color. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

But I quickly found out a truth that no one talks about: Today, virtually every woman in public life—politicians, celebrities, you name it—has some version of Meredith, Johnny, and Carl. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

"Rakharo, go forth and look on the rest, and tell me what you find. Take good men with you—and women, to go places where men are forbidden." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Any other kind of unarmed black woman in 1926 was silent or crazy or dead. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Always?” the woman says, just the slightest challenge in her voice. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next afternoon his wife appears, a tousled little woman with anxious, quick eyes like a bird, in a sort of black crinkly mantilla with ribbons; heaven knows where she inherited the thing. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alex was weighing the odds between them when his thoughts were interrupted by a man and woman walking out of the Olde Amsterdam Tavern. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

On the TV screen a woman named Angela Davis is telling us there's a revolution going on and that it's time for Black people to defend themselves. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

In the late 1950s, a woman often went from her parents' home to a home with her husband. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

“The star woman knew she had been betrayed. With tears in her eyes she said, ‘It is time for me to go.’ The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

A beautiful woman leaning across a kitchen table. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She was a tall, elegant woman who had a way of talking to pupils that made you feel good about yourself even if you were being punished. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I talked about the fears I’d had early on about raising our daughters in the White House and how proud I was of the intelligent young women they’d become. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He thought of the woman who had trusted in the desert. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The women in the room seemed not to have noticed that he was there. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

A trio of women standing at the bus stop glanced curiously in his direction. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The appeal of the dilemma has nothing to do, of course, with any interest we might have in women drug traffickers or in the criminal justice system. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He held a curious view of the law when it came to women and Africans: neither group, he said, was meant to be lawyers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Baba Joseph would pace the aisle between the men and women and tell them stories or scold them if they hadn’t been good. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No one expects her to behave like a grown woman yet, but she has to move into her husband’s house,” said Uncle Kufa. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is the first significant breakthrough for women in the history of Congress,” Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority Foundation, said at the time. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“You should get extra credit. You did all that research on those other women. I hadn’t heard of a couple of them.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The woman in white, leaving Poppy Cottage, where Ivy left her grandmother tending the fire. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

There’s a sketch of a long box with a woman’s head and feet sticking out of either end. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

“I think I’d start shrieking like an insane woman who has been locked in an attic for a great many years.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“They wouldn’t know the first thing to do with a woman, even if one walked stark naked into their bedroom.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Soon after the organization was established, it formed important alliances with legendary women’s rights leaders Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and other women battling to gain the right to vote. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

"What they do to you, black mahn? Give you them stinking women?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just before they reached Court Square, Claudette realized that a white woman was standing in the aisle between the four seats in her row. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

One woman’s got relaxer cream all over her head. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“That the women make cuts and bums on their faces and bodies to make pictures on them. Then they put colored dyes in the cuts and bums. They think it makes them look beautiful.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Neither side spoke of the interests of the doubly disenfranchised bloc of black women, who could have become advocates of universal suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

After the fabric is measured, cut, wrapped in brown paper, and tied with twine, I follow Mrs. Byrne down the street to a women’s clothes shop. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Theo likes some of Vincent’s paintings well enough to take them back to Paris: oil paintings of peasant women and a still life of flowers in a vase. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The woman behind us, with a full cart, throws up her arms and goes, “What is taking so long?” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The woman blubbered incoherently and then said suddenly, “My babies, they’re taking away my babies!” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

There were women everywhere, some taking orders over the phone, others mixing oils or straining tinctures. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

As headstrong and independent as my mom is, she remains the woman who gives back. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

A dainty white lady at the women’s club luncheon approaches the podium after my speech to say, after all, wasn’t it a shame that I wasn’t able to ‘use’ my Spanish in school. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did know that many women in Kilanga were more seriously disfigured and had husbands notwithstanding. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And more: There was my sense that this woman was pulling rank. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Named after a woman who promoted the education of prisoners and championed humane conditions of confinement, Tutwiler has become an overcrowded, dangerous nightmare for the women trapped there. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

At M’Dear’s request, the women pulled the slop jar from under the bed to show the stools. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the awareness of it strikes, a man either suffocates with despair or he turns to cling to his woman, to console and seek consolation. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was another volunteer working that day, an older woman with a long gray braid and bright blue eyes. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t like it either. God, I hate it! That woman is priming herself for a nervous breakdown. I just hope she doesn’t have it while I’m here.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Three weeks into her sentence, more than forty women, ranging in age from nineteen to seventy-three, protested Paul’s treatment by marching through the streets of Washington, DC. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Some of the women have a Watchbird beside them, a red and black bird like a child’s drawing, with big eyes and stick feet. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s not a woman in the world who hasn’t prayed what to cook for dinner, Rucker!” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The woman had fixed Naima’s mistakes as well as completely cleaning, scraping, and repainting eight panels. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

He said to himself that she was a woman such as is not commonly found. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Now, hello there, Miss Elizabeth!” bellowed a voice from a fat woman in a large hat. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shivered and was glad that she had done one thing right—she had worn her winter clothes, not her light summer kuspuck, the woman’s dress. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reporters lucky enough to be in the front rows rescued one elderly woman by hauling her over a railing and laying her out on a press table. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Coraline looked at the thin young woman with black button eyes and shook her head slowly. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

The women of his family gathered into a tight hug, surrounding him with love. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

A few other families stood by, in clumps, looking solemn, the women in black, the men in suits or formal guayaberas. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I studied the African women, the big white-haired man, the fat couple and their children, the Japanese tourists. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Various other pieces of the woman’s engine were scattered here and there. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Evidently I had done something terrible, if the wild anger written on the woman’s face was any indication. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

As for the woman, she crept around the corner of the curtain and began without a sound to prepare for the bed. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Oh, but strawberries will never taste so good again and the thighs of women have lost their clutch! East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The old woman pulled the bell cord and got out of the seat, trying self-consciously to avoid any contact with the anatomy of Jones, who watched her writhing through the detachment of his green lenses. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Presently the gate clicked open, and there appeared a short, slender white woman with silver hair and slightly drooping shoulders. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the women rejected the call for equal pay, because they believed it would be unladylike. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Mrs., who was what Big Ma called a “now generation” woman, didn’t put up a protest. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

A shuffling step announced the old woman herself, who entered the room with the white mastiff like a sentinel at her side. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The woman winked, like she didn’t understand at all that Candice was seething on the inside. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The guards pointed to a woman who carried a scrawny newborn secured to her chest. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The woman kisses the child good-bye and surrenders him to my mother; then she bolts off, running on the cemented stretches in the park. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“A woman said there’s a town five kilometers away. There’s a store, a post office, and a school,” said Mrs. Rimas. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

At first Amari didn’t understand, but suddenly she realized what the woman meant. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is friendly with the other women who work at the library, most of them also with grown children. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

As each prisoner approached, the woman gripped his or her wrist. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The woman in the white cloak appearing below her. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

There was a sudden colorful bustle through the church as women in their bright pagnes began to move about. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman's hairnet tugged her painted eyebrows up, which gave her a look of permanent surprise. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

They bonded over common ancestry, and one day Zeitoun asked Ahmaad if he knew any single women who might be appropriate for him. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Some women wear slightly saucier evening gowns, with bare shoulders here and there, but long kid-leather gloves ensure they don’t have more than a few inches of epidermis exposed. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“When I marry her,” he went on more calmly, “she tells me she’s a divorced woman. Now it turns out she’s not.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fifty thousand men and women are standing in pouring rain and ankle-deep mud to watch Abraham Lincoln take the oath of office to begin his second term. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then they began to move through the streets, every Jewish man, woman, and child from the village, nine hundred people in all. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

I remember the disgust she had for the two white women holding each other’s hands, and I think to myself that I’m a fool to ever hope Kalinda could have a different reaction for me. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

That is the way I was raised, by a black woman and a white man. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The Onion Knight has become an old woman, he could hear them thinking, still a smuggler at heart. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Asgard the Golden belonged to the gods; glorious Valhalla to the heroes; Midgard was the battlefield for men, not the business of women. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like a human woman, Rachael had every class of object conceivable filched and hidden away in her purse; he found himself rooting interminably. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Would a kindhearted innocent woman take a stroll with an infant she was asked to watch while its older sister ran back in the house, and laugh like that? Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jonas continued to work with the two Siberian women making shoes. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Head computer Margery Hannah went out of her way to treat the West Area women as equals, and had even invited some of them to work-related social affairs at her apartment. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

A woman I’d never seen before came in from the living room. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

But the woman will never see it because she's too busy being beautiful herself. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

In 1878, she and Stanton arranged for Senator Aaron A. Sargent to present Congress with a constitutional amendment granting women the right to vote. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“Soup with a bonobo finger in it is supposed to make a pregnant woman give birth to a strong baby. Putting another finger in the bathwater keeps the baby strong.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“The old woman gave up too easily,” he said, his voice low and harsh. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

CUT TO: STEVE; he is holding a basketball and is within earshot of the 2 women. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

All these differences contributed to a distinct class awareness, and even snobbery, in some of the young women who joined Marina Raskova’s regiments. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Jon Arryn's beautiful engraved silver sword glanced off the marble elbow of the weeping woman and snapped clean a third of the way up the blade. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The woman smiled and then said, “Is this your son, Jet? He looks just like you.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Was that Effie again? Never trust an ugly woman. She’s got a grudge against the world,” said Grandma, who was no oil painting herself. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Each woman swallowed a rubber tube so that doctors could test her stomach acids, and her reflexes were tested by electric shocks applied to her arms. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Stanton, startled by her cry, and fearing that the president had died, rushed into the room and called out loudly, “Take that woman out and do not let her in again.” Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she was a little girl, on one moonlit night Fernanda saw a beautiful woman dressed in white crossing the garden toward the chapel. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

What they do ever day for the white women they waiting on. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Vikus was waiting for them by the balcony with an older woman. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They want to live in an open, free society where they can walk with their heads up, like men, and women! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Sammy and I had thoroughly discussed the black man and white woman psychology. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mindful of the time, Mom and I exchanged looks and then followed the woman into a room not far from the security hall. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

She doubted whether she had not transgressed the duty of woman by woman, in betraying her suspicions of Jane Fairfax’s feelings to Frank Churchill. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Other voices joined the voices of the first two women. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

An Asian woman older than her parents leaned out the open window. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

White women with indentures got it easy—eventually, you can fit in.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Another girl, eh? Three women and a boy. All right, we’ll take you all back to the border and let you go.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Desperation, deep poverty, and illiteracy drove women to take the risk of cohabiting with men such as truck drivers and soldiers, those with steady jobs or who wielded the power of intimidation. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“I won’t let you take him away from me,” the woman warned her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Within six months the streets became strangely absent of women because they were afraid to go out to do their shopping. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The door opened: A laughing woman stood there. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

"Take your hands off that woman!" someone called from the crowd. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another gunman yelled to a woman who had been talking on her cell phone when the four men ran into the store. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Lyddie stopped to leave her snowshoes and lunch bucket on the porch, then followed the woman into a large, fragrant kitchen. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The woman, dressed in a simple green calico dress and a bonnet to match, was standing in front of the house and waving to them. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although many of these antisuffrage sentiments may seem ludicrous to us today, they were taken seriously by those who felt threatened by the prospect of women attaining the ballot. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

A freckled, red-haired woman with gold nose-glasses appeared; then a man with a circular mirror attached to his forehead—a doctor. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sore-riddled woman had gotten to her feet, was sprinting toward the front of the bus, waving her arms wildly, screaming something drowned out by the sounds of the storm. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The American Woman Suffrage Association had worked on state-by-state campaigns to secure women’s right to vote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The women earned the name “the Silent Sentinels.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I teach classes in nutrition, sanitation, and soybeans, to women who respectfully call me Mama Ngemba and ignore nine-tenths of what I tell them. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were a married couple, a big chunky man and a tiny, bubbly woman. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She was always a small woman, but her dialysis was forcing her to lose weight fast, and soon her short, gaunt frame was an almost comical mismatch with her husband’s bulk. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

When he looked out toward the frozen lake, he saw the dog that had been running with the woman skidding out on the lake. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

But the woman was now gazing down at her baby, who was suddenly whimpering. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Vice President,” Anthony said, “we present this Declaration of Rights of the women citizens of the United States.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

They took the women and the children and they put them all into the inner court where Lotus had lived alone with Cuckoo and her maids, and there in discomfort and crowding they lived. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He looks at the woman before hiding his face in the crook of my neck. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

For the remainder of the conference, he sat in silence with the rejected women in order to prove his point. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

After they had been seated about the middle room with demurring and unwillingness to take seats, for politeness, Wang Lung went into the kitchen to bid the woman serve. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Richard could see her and some other women underneath open stalls, shouting and gesticulating. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The woman stood up and shook out her clothes and the sari she was working on. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

But instead of moving to another seat, my character will tell the man to stop licking his lips at women like we’re pieces of meat. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

At eighteen, Pesza was sent to the right with the younger, stronger women. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Piper and I slept a little and we found some magazines hanging around and borrowed whichever ones didn’t feature extremely obscene pictures of naked women, which were few and far between. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I follow the man and woman who go upstairs. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Russian winter might stop the Germans, but it wasn’t going to stop the women of Raskova’s regiments. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

When they were young and single, girls were legally bound to do whatever their fathers said; when they married, women had to obey their husbands. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I found her and an old woman who looked like she could have been her greatgrandmother. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two women at a U-Pick farm stand offer her a bottle of water and a huge organic peach. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The German woman’s voice rang out from a speaker somewhere above his head. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He was taking an elderly woman’s money for a rocking horse. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He told them about the dark giant, and the strange woman on Half-Blood Hill, offering him a multiple-choice death. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

As if it mattered what the woman looked like. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“They are going to shoot us all,” a woman said over and over, sobbing. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t see a man in a gray suit; it was a woman. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Pap& hadn’t broken with this woman but merely moved her off the grounds and into town. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman directed me to a room behind her. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Nitta, a small woman with a waist no larger than a soup tin, darted up and down the rows like a hummingbird beneath her straw picking hat. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

At the San Francisco station, they watched as Oppenheimer was greeted by a tall woman with dark hair. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know what goes on in their heads, about girls and women, things they can’t admit to other boys, or to anyone. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The 46th Taman Guards was the only Soviet regiment to remain entirely staffed by women throughout the war, and they were proud of it. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

As I watch for them, who do I see but Clint Hammond and a woman that I guess is his mother, strolling past the Apple Store. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The other children were too busy sniffling and biting their fingernails to notice, and if he hurried, he might even copy the answers down before the pencil woman looked up again. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Out on the decks, women cook food in clay ovens and converse loudly with their neighbors. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vietnamese music plays continuously on the radio as women snip and clip at their customers’ hair. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

To support her daughters, she took in laundry and later found a job as a cleaning woman at Wanamaker’s Department Store downtown. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

“You all stay here with the women and children,” the father tells us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Our apartments are identical in layout, but mine looks so different. You must come see what I've done with it. I'm a decorator, you know. Three bedrooms do seem rather spacious for a single woman." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The oldest Java “man” fossils—of course, they may actually have belonged to a Java woman—have usually been assumed to date from about a million years ago. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The opulent fur-trimmed silk and gold ornaments told of the woman’s wealth and nobility, but those were mere faded trappings compared with her loveliness. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The women’s suffrage advocates were on their own. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Oh no! What am I going to do? That woman will kill me!” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

A weeping woman with a child waits under the archway. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

A woman in an apron, Abigail, maybe, raises her arm and shakes it in encouragement. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Social groups for women encouraged lively exchange between old settlers and migrants, creating a willing audience for modeling proper behavior. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

At Lyra’s question the woman ran a hand through her hair and said, “Well, you’re the second unexpected thing that’s happened today. I’m Dr. Mary Malone. What do you want?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was just as simple as that. Now there is one hell of a woman. No wonder she got to be a madam. There is one hell of a woman.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

After sentencing, Trina was immediately shipped off to an adult prison for women. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile the truck and vans, now jam-packed with handcuffed men and women and dogs and black policemen, hummed engines and prepared to leave. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were only four plaintiffs now, since one of the women, Jeanette Reese, had dropped out under pressure from her employer. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Unlike the United States, the Soviet government expected women to work outside of the home, and by the 1950s, many Soviet women were pursuing scientific and technical careers. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

I always insist on walking into the washroom myself, but there’s always someone there, just in case, and for some reason it’s always a woman. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Lexie studiously avoided her eyes as the woman consulted her screen. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Late strollers were still out: a policeman, a night watchman, a rocket pilot, several lonely men coming home from some nocturnal rendezvous, four men and women issuing from a bar, laughing. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You must remember, there’s a chance that the woman in black knows where your mother is, and is only trying to tell you the truth.” Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“She’ll show up, all right. From what Mami tells me, that woman is so stuck up, one day she is going to wake up a mirror. Loves attention. I hate her already.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

She would have attacked the woman and probably beaten her senseless. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“He is a cute child,” the strange woman said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man, a Chinese farmer who spoke some Korean, invited Shin inside and ordered a young woman to cook rice. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“It’s all been researched and tested. These tools are built specifically for women.” The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

She was still struggling at the women's prison but was excited about the possibility of our doing something to change her sentence. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Men, women, and children were hard at work—just as at Stromford—plowing, weeding, and hoeing. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

They passed Prince Aidan, who was dancing with a woman who was decidedly neither of Ash’s stepsisters, and he smiled at them as they went by. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someday the woman might casually say, “You can beat her if you like” to a stranger, and then introduce him as her future husband. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Strikers idled in bars around the Yard, staring out the window at the steady stream of men and women the packers were bringing in. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Not only was she opposed to this one aspect of tribal culture, but to others as well, particularly those involving relations between men and women and the upbringing of children. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I picture it as Anatole describes it: men and women in tiers of velvet skirts, walking noiselessly on a forest path. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

My thumbs stroke the soft skin of the young woman's hands. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He was American, just like the friendly, longhaired men and women we always saw hanging around in Kabul, dressed in their tattered, brightly col­ored shirts. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I should go anywhere: anywhere where a woman old enough to be your mother would be safe from fins extravagance.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

That a woman alone, even if ugly, could not suffer as much as my beautiful mother did. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The rabbit spent the day hanging by his ears, baking in the hot sun, watching the old woman and Bryce weed and hoe the garden. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

I started by reaching out to some of his old connections, German expats in Johannesburg, a woman who used to date one of his friends who knew somebody who knew the last place he stayed. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Is your wife ... ?” The woman nodded at the gate. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The charm woman heard that the tree had fallen off the man’s head and she sent a young boy to tell him to send her two cows. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Still the bread goes stale and Mikey is so bothered by the waste he talks to a rich woman with a cookbook and she tells him make bread pudding. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She had heard many tales about men and women who had been foolish enough to make wishes in the presence of fairies, and for a moment she wondered what she was getting herself into. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t take clerks long to recognize Ann and to decide that it was easier to just wait on the large black woman as soon as she was ready. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Send women, then. Send giants. Send suckling babes. Is that what my lord wishes to hear?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The old woman leaned forward, her black eyes gleaming. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A woman was indeed coming out on the sandbar, slipping and no doubt cursing to herself, for her lips went up and down between her clear, peremptory calls. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He reports to his family after a long day’s work: these women don’t wish to speak of the dead. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She’s not just a baby,” protested one woman, when Channel 5 sent a reporter to Asia Plaza, Cleveland’s Chinese shopping center, in search of the Asian perspective. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

What kind of grown woman sits on the floor, sleeps on the floor? Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the hallway outside, an old woman called a dezhurnaya, or "hall dragon," stood guard over all the room keys, which hung on hooks behind her desk. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I was left there alone for a further ten minutes before Gaskill and a woman, also in plain clothes, turned up. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I’m nothing more than a woman of sand, left by a careless child too near the water. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re a grown woman with a husband and children of your own. You don’t need a father—or a mother either. You’re only curious.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could a woman so obviously rich in this world’s goods be so mean in the use of them? Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the people in the space were men, but interspersed among them a few women consulted their calculating machines or peered intently at slides in film viewers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

This included the esteem accorded to women who held life-giving roles as healers and midwives. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

She reached the square, and the horse stopped, and the woman in grey slipped off it easily and stood on the earth, facing them all, the living and the dead of them. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

She was the first woman to be part of their team. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It also carried Phoebe Anne Moses of Tiffin, Ohio, a young woman with a penchant for guns and an excellent sense of distance. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

This is how I learn that women fighting is news. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I returned the woman said: “Your breakfast is in the kitchen.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But most stunning of all: The women’s headscarves and veils were gone. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The woman in charge of the floor, a large-boned, handsome woman, with rolled up shirt sleeves and a denim apron over her starched white skirt, came up to us. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

A woman removed two more from a special shelf in the wall of the cave. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The old woman points to a black folio on the table. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The whips were the property of the stolen truck’s rightful custodian, a cattleman; it had been Latham’s notion to use them as garrotes—which, after robbing the women, is what they did. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the morgue were bodies of people who had been hacked to death; a woman had both her breasts cut off with a machete. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman was so uncomfortable with Mamma’s interest in her, and yet she had no idea how to put a stop to it. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Others dressed more plainly— men in tunics and hooded cloaks, women in colored silks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I stay because it’s my job. No, it’s not exciting. No woman is attractive when you’re pouring ice water over her head to revive her and she’s managed to be sick in her own hair.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the woman told the boy stories she had heard at the meetin’ house. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m a simple woman, ma’am. I leave the opinion-having to minds greater than my own.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

An older woman, probably her mother, stood a few steps behind her, smiling at us. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

An amazing woman but totally crackers, if you ask me—hope her own right hand knows what her left hand is doing. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“I—I—” All she could think of was to echo the rickshaw woman’s words. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

“National woman’s suffrage is at hand,” a committee report stated. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He took the bags from the young woman. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

"Think you can come up here and hit one of our women, you a fool." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eight women came, thrilled that a female pilot was finally getting the chance they had been denied so long ago and perhaps a little sad that they weren't flying along with her. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder if this woman has a similar story. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

His voice, when he spoke very softly as now, did have much the timbre of a woman’s voice, husky and unresonant. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Not to be able to have children anymore...to be half a woman...get fat...have hair grow on your chin. I’ll kill myself first!” she cried passionately. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a woman with a shawl sitting on the fourth flight smoking a cigarette. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I’ve seen Communist pictures showing a contented woman sitting on her bunk sewing. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rushed home from school every day to sit by the radio for hours listening to the romantic tales of women with names like Mariana and Sofía, and men such as Armando and Ricardo. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

A pregnant woman rests her heavy sack against a barrel. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the child would end up being a serial murderer, like those women on television crime documentaries, standing half-naked on dark roads to lure truck drivers and then strangle them. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Some criticized her for joining the lofty cause of temperance with what they considered to be vulgar appeals for women’s rights. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

So Nina had to endure something far more terrible: she was eventually sent to the women’s section of the concentration camp at Buchenwald, Germany. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The other women stopped their work and watched the new wife walk off towards the river. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The woman had a lot of groceries, so it took awhile for the Bullens boys to unload their items. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The air had smelled of freshly baked bread, smoke, and damp clothes, and Meggie had watched a smith making a sword and had hidden behind Mo’s back from a woman in a witch’s costume. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Jacqueline said nothing as she carefully walked around the women who sat like statues in different corners of the cell. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I'm not completely in the dark, yet I understood only half of what this woman was saying. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

On the inside of the paper there’s a full page of her, with women curtsying to her, little girls presenting bouquets of flowers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

As Ixtali rowed on, we passed a fisherman pulling up a turtle in his net and two women picking fresh vegetables from a floating garden. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

They left, and old Ku’oosh waited until the voices of the women could no longer be heard before he moved the chair closer to the bed. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

So many handkerchiefs appeared among the men and women in the gallery that the courtroom looked as if it had just experienced a sudden snowfall. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The mechanics and armorers felt a fierce sense of competition with nearby men’s night bomber regiments doing the same job, and the women wanted to prove they were just as capable as the men. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It was as if the woman had winked out of existence entirely. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She peered into the tall woman’s eyes, as though looking into a long, dark tunnel in the face of a rock. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

When at last he blew out his lamp, Johnny had made an exact replica of the winged woman, only larger. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nobody knows how I dread Christmas. Nobody knows. I am not one of those women who can stand things. I wish for Jason’s and the children’s sakes I was stronger.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though their directive was to destroy the Shawnee Nation, they fell on the staunchly neutral towns of the Delaware Nation, torturing and killing women and children. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

A grandmother of a petty knight, an ugly woman with a crooked nose, seemed stately and beautiful in the torches’ strange light. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t a big family: an infant and an old woman and a woman whose age was hard to tell. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman grimaced, wiping her face with the back of her hand. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“What kind of women do they sew these pants for?” she mutters. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The woman was mixing some herbs and powders into the heating water. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I squeeze into the back, next to a woman who flinches when I press against her shoulder. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

But the tall one, who was almost a woman, said something very quietly, which I couldn’t hear. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that was the true miracle that night, the first of June—the month, as Magister Reese could have told her, named for Juno, the Roman goddess of the moon, of women, and of childbirth. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They hear the women next door say they think Maria Isabel is having an affair. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I stuttered, not sure if she’d mind my having figured out she was the Hungarian woman in the story. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was that moment, being told by the woman on the phone that the hearing’s location was “private information,” that did the most damage. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Dr. Johnson was just inside the glass doors talking to two other adults—Tomas Cruz and a woman who I recognized from the soccer games. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ms. Morales is the woman Finn always called Perfume Lady,” Mom said, sounding desperate. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

One of the women tried to press coins into Eliza’s hand, but Eliza politely refused and put the money back in the sisters’ shabby purse. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they moved out of sight, Ash heard the woman ask who she was, but she could not hear Kaisa’s reply. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not hungry. The nerve, that woman thinkin’ she can take Ma’s place! Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Whistles and air horns sound around us as the Haganah members shepherd us, women and children, into the lifeboats. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Someone is taking my magic. Is it you, old woman?” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

No one thought she would survive her injuries, but here she was, a young woman now with such strength. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Instead, gently point out that the biggest beneficiaries of Affirmative Action are white women. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t about to say any of that romance stuff that Hollywood and television had filled women’s heads with. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘The trouble with you is that you don’t have any real kindness. Not but one woman I’ve ever known had this real kindness I’m talking about.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

This woman who can only be Mitch’s mom throws a dish towel over her shoulder and brings me in for a hug. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The woman with the reddish colored hair, the one who used to feed him, was gone. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, at the time, women who followed any sort of intellectual pursuit—especially a study of “noxious animals”—were deemed abnormal. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The old woman took a deep breath and looked toward the empty road beyond the gate, her face filled with longing. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“And her husband’s body was right there in the rubble,” another woman added. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Cousin—if she’s related to my mother, then this woman who I’ve never laid eyes on before is related to me too. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Slenderly, languidly, their hands set lightly on their hips the two young women preceded us out onto a rosy-colored porch open toward the sunset where four candles flickered on the table in the diminished wind. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

And the cowbells peeled in his antlers, singing fool, fool, fool while the red woman looked down on him in pity, the candle flames dancing in her red red eyes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Its constituents are men and women and children of all ages, folks on the dodge from collection agencies, relationships gone sour, the law or the IRS, Ohio winters, the middle- class grind. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Officials worried that the women would become martyrs. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

My mother was the first woman to join the board of directors at her firm. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He went to Frigga disguised as a woman and entered into talk with her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pointed to the woman who was still near the tracks about thirty feet away crouched down on the ground, crying with her baby and her son. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Togged up women and gentlemen in yachting costume and all very rich and important looking. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

At the time, there were no formal women's organizations in the United States. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Two people are pacing around in the third room, a man and a woman practicing a theater scene. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A group of Candor and Erudite are waiting there, including the blond Divergent woman who got dragged to the elevators by her hair, the girl I helped escape, and Cara. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Tonight when I took a bath, I discovered I was changing into a woman. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m useless, and there she is with those big Help Me eyes, so alarming in a woman like my mother, all polish and smooth edges, never a hair out of place, not even now. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

As the young women came running across the airfield in relief to welcome her back to earth, a smiling Marina climbed out of the plane. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Nonnie had sort of put her hand on the younger woman’s arm in a timid embrace, but there was a huge embroidered shoulder bag between the two of them. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

The jails are full of men and women who have been trapped in the spider’s web of the Stanton investigation. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

A young, slickhaired man screamed loud obscenities to an older woman on the sidewalk. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He introduced us to his wife, a friendly, petite woman who also had a raspy voice. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Do not look at that woman,” warned my aunt. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young woman in the house—Shin found out she was the farmer’s mistress—cooked for him and taught him rudimentary Chinese. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

So they all came grandly down to the picnic: women with their heads wrapped in print cloth like birthday presents. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman rubbed her hands on her apron. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman with the goat had said everything was disorganized. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Angelina wrote a series of letters about women’s role in society that were published in the Liberator, an abolitionist newspaper. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Matthew bolted the door and turned back to the dumfounded women. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

He’d killed an innocent woman and probably hadn’t lost any sleep over it. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Was this woman one of them, or maybe her husband, or a brother? October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The woman chose another panel from the unfinished stack, and Naima started painting it. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

An official order was made for women pilots from civil aviation and Osoaviakhim to report to an assembly point in Moscow, where Marina would take charge of them. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“So why does she call herself the Hungarian woman? Why doesn’t she just say ‘me’ or call herself Miss Sadie?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Salva still had the gourd that the old woman had given him. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hairdos are another matter, surprisingly complicated, given that the women have no real hair to speak of. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the 1930s, just over a hundred women in the United States worked as professional mathematicians. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

They seemed moved by eyes alone—the eyes of neat, vigilant young women—needing only the occasional, swift intervention of a human hand to keep them clattering. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

When she saw the article about women flying in space, she knew this was something she had to do. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

There was a picture of a woman to identify in the center. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Stanton wanted to increase the number of suffragists, but she worried that most temperance workers had no real interest in women’s rights. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

But the young woman with the chestnut hair and the narrow waist who gave sugar to the horses, where was she? Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Most women were believers and wanted their husbands to be believers, too. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The click-clacking on the floor made it clear that it was a woman. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

He kept his gaze on a tall white woman hurrying ahead, hair flying behind her, knapsack hunched on her back. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

An ancient woman sat in a rocking chair and sipped a mug of tea. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

As the women headed to the backyard with their tea, Fadi sat alone, in the dark. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

In those days it had been wonderful to be selling crystal, and he had thought how he would become rich, and have beautiful women at his side as he grew older. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were three women for every man, many with children—pale skinny things clutching at their skirts. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And she moved, therefore, through their small community like a woman mysteriously visited by God, like a terrible example of humility, or like a holy fool. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Tears streamed down his face and he cradled the barrel of the shotgun in his arms as though it were the woman he had been begging for, searching for, all his life. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t too well himself after his first mild stroke, and Lelia and I, despite our discord, were mutually grateful that the woman had been taking good care of him. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fact that there are now women playing for symphony orchestras is not a trivial change. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The Foster women had made a fortress out of duty. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anthony turned the fund-raising task over to a group of local women who raised $42,000, but then they stopped collecting money, as if they had reached their goal. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

When the women's movement hit the United States—along with the Civil Rights Act, which prohibited discrimination based on race or gender—things started to change. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You become pregnant,” Rick continued, “by a man who has promised to marry you. The man goes off with another woman, your best friend; you get an abortion and—” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Ignoring the waitress’s growing anger, Blair continued to press for service, arguing, with a logic that only infuriated the woman, that if Woolworth’s didn’t want to serve the public perhaps they should sell membership cards. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She’s on the opposite end of the room, bending over an old woman and tucking a napkin into her collar. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

During the writing the cleaning woman came in to say that she was going off, for her morning work wTas finished. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

They rounded up the Indians in camps, the women and children and whatever they could carry on their backs, and marched them west of the Mississippi. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She could be a woman taking charge of her own life. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She wanted to hire women, but by law she had to choose from lists of people who had taken civil service exams in math or science. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She focused on the woman's words, on her job offer, and felt the bite of regret. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Then you see a little Persian woman with two scared kids stepping into the narrow cabin in the back. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Sister Dolores led us to the rear of the house, where she segregated us by age into small groups led by bespectacled young men and well-scrubbed young women. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Moments later a heavy, barefoot, gray-haired woman opened the door again. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The young women in her circle comported themselves in a foreign ritual, undecipherable. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The boys shook hands, though they didn’t look as if they wanted to, and when they parted ways and the crowd began to melt, I heard a woman behind me mutter, “Dirty Jew.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I think we would have talked about creating affirmative action programs for women in the music world. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The woman keeps her head turned away from me, refusing to meet my gaze, shoveling the books and papers back into her bag. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The four of us had been lumped together last Friday to start on this assignment about an important woman from the past, and in two weeks we would have to do a presentation on her. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Olanna spent most of the cash in the envelope and bought biscuits and toffees in shiny wrappers from a woman who traded behind enemy lines, but Baby only nibbled at them. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

On December 9, 1917, the National Woman's Party hosted a dinner honoring the eighty-nine women who had served time in the District Jail or the Occoquan Workhouse. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure you feel ashamed of me. You’ve every right to be, but you mustn’t be ashamed of her. She was a good woman with a good heart.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Manlike, they had told me to go to bed and sleep; as if a woman can sleep when those she loves are in danger! Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The Life Drawing students prefer Ladies and Escorts, but they need a woman to get in. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The kitchen staff is eating with the guests,” exclaimed a woman. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Once we were there, face-to-face, the stewardess stopped in her tracks and made herself a barrier between the strange woman and us. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I do not wish to speak badly about women. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

The woman said something else, and then there was a long pause, and then Daddy was on the phone. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

More handcuffed men and women and policemen and dogs still remained in the streets. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

A woman handed me and Bugs each a flat, square, empty tin can. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Listening to songs on the radio, or hearing a great voice at the opera, or overhearing the woman downstairs singing to herself at an open window, I learn much more. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, Rukmani, since we have done business for a long time, and because you are a woman of spirit whom I have long admired, I will give you thirty rupees. Nobody could be fairer.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a heavy-breasted woman behind a bar in the garage and a lean yellow dog who lay drowsing by a pan of water, his ears twitching in sleep. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s got to be at least one more woman like you.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

People crowded around, trying to get a look at her new baby, who had the miraculous power of turning even the oldest women into young mothers again. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The women giggle, but it’s a purring sound, an encouraging sound, as they continue trying to get a response. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

She had never seen Shona women dressed this way. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

For a long time already Amaranta had given up trying to make her into a useful woman. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

There was only one other woman: less young, less slender, sleeping beside a stocky man. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Everyone knows that mestizo men like their women slim with fair skin. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took the stairs two at a time and rushed into the street and hugged and kissed him like the kind of woman the neighbors think I am. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dressing in men’s clothes and using the same equipment as men does not turn a woman into a man. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Suddenly that summer she decided that my mother was the woman who had stolen her husband. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few old women were sitting in a corner, drinking tiny glasses of sherry. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

A young white woman answered the door and was unabashedly surprised to see me. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Where lonely women go to dance,” Sierra said out loud. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Where does a woman go in a society where that is the norm? Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“They dug a hole when they wanted to beat a pregnant woman,” Mama said. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The woman collapsed onto the floor, and the lifeless creature rolled out of her arms, leaving a glistening crimson trail down the front of her dress. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The woman pulled her daughter by the hand and left. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

That was a woman’s duty: to marry and bear children. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s a natural thing that comes to all women.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom says I should . .. ... until one crazy day when this cranky old woman and this sick little boy meet a coy-dog with a heart of gold—and they all learn an important lesson about love. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When I tell people how you taunt an old woman, they don’t believe me. ‘ When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Please! Two of the more statuesque women here will carry this banner between them as we march into the office.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old woman cries softly, her hand clutching his small one, her thumb massaging the top of his hand in a circle. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one paid attention to the two tardy guests who appeared at the door, letting in a gust of wind, till suddenly a woman screamed and threw her arms about a snow-covered figure. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

She had been chosen as the most beautiful of the five thousand most beautiful women in the land and they had brought her to Macondo with the promise of naming her Queen of Madagascar. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Why had he married a woman who was not intelligent only to turn around and tell her that his wife was not intelligent? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“That’s a nasty bruise,” the old woman said, frowning at my forehead. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Hydrants were opened, women were dancing to salsa blaring from a boom box on the cement. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Tirelessly the woman marched to and fro, corking and uncorking herself, singing and falling silent, and pegging out more diapers, and more and yet more. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Henry Park isn’t one to follow his woman anyway,” said Ichibata, who sat near him. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike her husband, she wasn’t the kind of woman who let people see what she really felt. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Did you hear what that woman said!” my mother screamed into my ears. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up close neither one of those women looked like Moon Orchid at all. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We lurched about holding beer cartons in our hands, mimicking the many drunken men and women we saw stagger out of shebeens. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It talks about men, but what about women? Rude.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Finally two African women in flowing, colourful robes came out, laughing like they’d just been at the fun fair. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men’s chairs were far enough away from the women’s couches that the two parties had to lean forward, their elbows on their knees. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

He didn’t wish to offend the woman, but he could hardly trust her now, and it was more important to know that Miss Perumal’s mind was at ease. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The woman stationed inside is watching, and smiling at you. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I want to make art. Like that woman Diane said. For the rest of my life. Until I’m old like her and still making art.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

There was more tenderness and love in the gestures of that little boy than in all the caresses he had showered on any woman in his life. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soldiers moved a barrier and allowed the vehicle of well-dressed women and officers in uniform to pass. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Listen to me. Is there anyone else we can talk to? And how can we find out about the friends we’re looking for? The girl, two women.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The young woman had a small dog, a Pomeranian, that yapped nonstop during the three hours it took to empty the apartment. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The Women’s Loyal National League had successfully completed its mission, and many people believed that women had earned the right to vote through this work. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Naomi and several of the women dressed for dinner, but I put this aberrant behavior down as a sign of approaching old age. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The woman’s breath was humid with rage, sour. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The club was part of the Soviet Air Army, and Masha and two other women—another pilot and a navigator—wanted to join the club’s military division along with the men. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Mr. Levy didn’t feel like speaking with the crying woman again. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She handed Claire a dry cloth and together they dried and tidied the dead woman, folding her arms finally across her gaunt chest. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was a photo of a robed woman with a sharp star for a halo and a torch in her upraised hand. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

But a woman’s income appeal is a bell-shaped curve: men do not want to date /W-earning women, but once a woman starts earning too much, they seem to be scared off. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“I’ll thank ye kindly to call me she,” the woman says, still pointing the rifle at us from chest level. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Ahead of them, the woman leapt over piles of nets and slid, legs kicking, over the tops of wooden chests, squeezing between plump businesswomen and groups of confused travelers. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

There was a woman on Weylin’s plantation whose former master had cut three fingers from her right hand when he caught her writing. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She played basketball, volleyball, soccer, and baseball, and stood out to her coaches, particularly an African American woman named Rhonda Brown, who coached volleyball. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The ANC had to integrate these men and women into the organization as well. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A woman next to me smiles dully, a stack of empty glasses lining a tray next to her. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know about that. I never loved any woman.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

In Santarem I met a woman who told me that the asphalt street in front of her home had just been ripped up by the municipal authorities. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She liked money as well as most women, and accepted it with no little satisfaction. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time Kit succeeded in half dragging the sobbing woman through the underbrush. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The woman at the Walton County jail had a different approach; she grabbed Luma’s hand, inked her fingertips, and then slammed her hand down on the counter. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Pete makes fun of her, tells her she eats like a white woman. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had probably vanished before the woman’s eyes. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Now women and children on both sides of the tracks are throwing bundles to the migrants on the tops of the cars. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Some tribes scratch the days of the Moon or the days that the women bleed on antler bones. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“However a woman who carries a knife is ready for trouble. Generally speaking, it’s easier to appear harmless. It’s less trouble all around.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The old woman was watching her much more intently now. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The women in this part of Kabul were a different breed from the women in the poorer neighborhoods—like the one where she and Rasheed lived, where so many of the women covered fully. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The older woman lifted her bony shoulders in a shrug. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The women have set up long tables and laid out side dishes, desserts, and cold drinks. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

One thing was clear: Neither Congress nor the federal courts were ready to grant women the right to vote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

On the show, one doctor is trying to save this woman’s life but the woman keeps insisting that she has nothing left to live for. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was the first “victory” score of the contest, and the women had already pulled ahead. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He borrowed a corkscrew from the woman he had bought the wine from and opened the wine and drank some of it. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They fell like slaughtered birds and the woman stood below, like a small girl, among the bodies. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

I never wanted to smack an old woman before, but boy, I did now. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I had no idea what most women did outside the confines of Miss Preston's. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Felicia, Mr. Alacran’s wife, was a frail woman with long, nervous fingers. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her brown shoes were worn out—there was even a hole in one of them—and she carried a stack of books the mean woman was piling onto her arms. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“They don’t even like having married women there,” she added. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Roughly half of the white women on the site and 80 percent of the white men declared that race didn’t matter to them. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“I think you are a very impatient girl, eager to grow up into an impatient woman.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Old women on thin straw mattresses that line the walls, which they must sleep on, because I don’t see anything else that could be used. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

My legs begin to feel their strength, and I break into what I think is a run but must be more like the shuffle of an elderly woman. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I hear you’ve been talking to those mad men and women again,” he said as we sat down for dinner. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first time anyone treats me like a woman and I respond like an infant. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Does that interest you? Big women with long, braided blond hair and gleaming breastplates the size of melons?” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The woman had not been without a boyfriend for more than a few days of her adult life. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

During the week, the church would act as a school that taught women who wanted a domestic job the skills they needed. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Clothes. Duds. Britches. That will fit this guy and make women swoon across Tennessee’s Cumberland Plateau region.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

There was a particularly vocal older white woman who loudly demanded that I be questioned about items she was missing. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She was just starting to relax when a man in a dark uniform jangling with medals walked over to the woman. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman stood up and handed her daughter to me. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were twelve of us: me, three babies, and eight women that were all carrying something to eat. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

And yet, my dear, let me whisper, I felt a thrill of joy through me when I knew that no other woman was a cause of trouble. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

But when the war started, Valentina was told she couldn’t join the air force because she was a woman. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He walked along a pillared gallery and through a pointed arch, and found himself in a tiled courtyard where a woman was washing clothes at a well. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Go visit your mother and father first,” my mother-in- law said, a generous woman. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The women ran cottage industries, making lace and darning socks. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The area for the women was in a separate location. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shop was always crowded with black men and women pawing over cheap suits and dresses. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl slid the gilded sandals onto her feet, while the old woman fixed the tiara in her hair, and slid golden bracelets crusted with amethysts around her wrists. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The first thing I noticed about this woman was her size. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

The woman frowns slightly, but keeps writing, and without looking up she says, "And when do you expect Bobby to come home?" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neighbor women do still come calling to offer little gifts, a hand of bananas or an orange for the baby to suck on and make us laugh at his puckery face. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

After five minutes, Pauline twitched her thumb, and the cello woman was replaced by an Ansel Adams landscape, Mount McKinley glowering over a lake of pure white. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

After I read the poem that compares the woman’s hands to flowers and rain, I put the book down and went to the window. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

She spots a young woman, walking with her phone crooked between her shoulder and her ear. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

They shot straight past him and almost bowled the woman over, leaping all around her, yapping and licking. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They had given them to the women of the nobility as favors, and he’d snagged one from the basket as it was passed around. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“I only wondered,” the woman repeated, “if Cady and Toby had left for the convention center yet.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

In hundreds of houses sleepy women woke sleepier children. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an unusual story; market women fought, mad women fought, but not women who were professors. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

"It's hard to stay relaxed around all of these beautiful women." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She encouraged the women in her group to do the same. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

A woman across the aisle handed him a cup of water, which he poured over the stain. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He continued speaking directly to the dead woman, and I half wished she would rise up and answer him, offended by the coarseness of his approach. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is the usual way a woman spy is executed in Berlin. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Despite the fear we all felt for her, we were not expecting them to attack a woman. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Then in the picture next to that one, there were two plump women with that same nose, standing that same way. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay,” the casting woman says, laughing, handing me a clipboard and a pen. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Quit your gossiping and get to work,” barked the grouchy woman. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The women straightened their spines and elongated their necks, their beautiful faces like flowers opening in the heat of the fire. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“There’s not just the matter of the woman to be made up. There’s the Justices to be paid off.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

You could always make a woman talk twice as long as a man. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

The same thing happened to the young woman. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Ay, what courage that old woman has!” my uncle ex claimed. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But you have touched them,” the woman whispered. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

They pitied the poor woman, but the scene was embarrassing. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told him, and I am telling you now, that although she’d been savaged by her awful disease, she was a beautiful woman. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“For woman is yin,” she cried sadly, “the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t walk with my mother, either; a light-skinned child with a black woman would raise too many questions. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I remember there was a woman with a baby sitting back by the fire.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I know now the reason you were sent to Yellow Kettle, to the old woman, to your Deydey, your brothers,” said Tallow. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Despite her marital troubles, she had that air of secret elation, that affection for her own body that pregnant women often have. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day Katie, falling back on a woman’s always-respected excuse, told her forelady that it was her time of the month; she didn’t feel so good. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the men, you know, the things they thought nothing of saying out loud to any woman who passed by could not be repeated before children. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is said, in the Book of Enoch, that two hundred angels led by Azazel, the keeper of God’s throne, came to Earth after falling in love with the human women they had watched. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I looked at the baby in the lap of the woman opposite. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Just the week before, Eveillard said, a woman had arrived and requested a no-contact visit—she was going to tell her husband she wanted a divorce, and feared his reaction. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The corpses of a thousand thousand thousand men and women would be hard to bury or burn. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The driver was a woman, younger than Mom. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

The woman picked up a handful of gray strings and sorted through them, and then looked at Hazel thoughtfully. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Now a new and extremely potent story emerged from the data: it was possible to track the life outcome of any individual woman. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“No crepe or black...and some common-sense women to conduct the services.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

A woman clutching a cell phone hurried to Mr. Griswold’s side. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Kate made a slave of him just as he had always made slaves of women. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“No. I didn’t ask for you by name. I asked him if he knew where a woman named Circe used to live.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, on Saturday mornings, I began carrying packages for women at the A&P, sometimes earning as much as three dollars in a single day. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

At the back of the store, behind a counter with an old-fashioned cash register, stood a middle-aged woman with olive skin, long black hair, rimless glasses, and a T-shirt that read: The Goddess Is Alive! The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Some people say there was a woman—” “What do they know?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

That woman’s hat was in front of me. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The woman had thick, strong arms and her hands were mottled red. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Right away I drove to Portsmouth and met my mother’s childhood friend, a slim, brown-haired, soft-spoken woman of Mommy’s age whose eyes, it turned out, were working just fine. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

An octoroon woman in Bastrop had passed and married a white farmer. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

But her great eyes, with their elaborate lashes, could only be those of a grown woman; there the resemblance to adolescence ended. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

She met his stare with a calm, bold smile, a smile mocking innocence, so that her face was filled with the age-old cunning of a woman. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The new wife, however, just stared back at the other women, a sweet smile on her face. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

And the voice I’d heard the day before, saying, Lily Melissa Owens, your jar is open, speaking as plain and clear as the woman in navy speaking to her daughter. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her daughter was suddenly grown up, a woman, weary from the inside. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Just when I have had enough, when I feel like I am going to scream if I see any more, the woman reappears on the screen, behind her desk. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

She looked at the vacant-faced woman lying in a bed, her hair cut off short and her hazel eyes staring at the camera without any expression, as if the camera and photographer were not there. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

In San Francisco, the sidewalks were crowded with men and women hauling boxes and suitcases filled with “booze.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

"Here, quit your biting, or I'll ring your bells," the woman in the window said to the man behind her, push-ing him off with an elbow. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They themselves do not wear black turtlenecks, but smocks, like pregnant women. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

On they ran, some of the men and women leading from ahead, some yelling encouragement from behind. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She saw his childhood, before his sight was taken: the rocky Everican shore, an old woman laughing, the tangy smell of mulch, and trees, trees, trees whispering and creaking and laughing and speaking. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Behind him were a woman with the head and tail of a lioness, and a Pharaoh in a cobra headpiece. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Many of the men and women carrying placards were old friends of mine, and they were chanting for higher wages for Works Progress Administration artists and writers. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the woman acting as David’s proxy—Angela—says, “So you didn’t know the reason Juanita asked you to disable the security system?” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

This woman driving me to school was my mom. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

So I stared at the woman blankly, and in perfect English, I said: “I’m so sorry, but I have no idea what you’re saying.” Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The star woman offered a quiet, shimmering smile to the mother. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“I guess I’m ’bout near pure as you, Cap’n,” the woman said, causing Bull to throw his head back and holler with laughter. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She held her chin high and a little angry—she knew Maybeth and this woman didn’t. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chipo, too, was gasping and coughing, while anxious women held her shoulders and murmured encouragement. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Another woman, or maybe I should call her a girl since she looks about my age, limps into view. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Many private colleges didn't admit women until the 1970s. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve been at the battery factory almost twenty years now, since right after the revolution, and I supervise forty-two women. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the woman simply adjusted her fancy hat and ignored Ophie, as though Ophie were the ghost and not the other way around. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

A woman desperate enough to sell her husband's opklapbed might do such a thing. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

But when a girl is born, no one visits the parents, and women have only sympathy for the mother. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The woman pulled the blanket back over my legs and shook me again. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m not running around; I’m a working woman!” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, a week later, there was a knock on the door, and a tall woman walked in. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Nowhere. Nature is beautiful, but she can be cruel. Just like a woman,” Hamlet mused. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Viola recruited three of the women to help her cook in the old stone kitchen in back of the house. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Sherm’s grandmother turned, and Bridge could see the woman in the picture upstairs, along with a lot of years. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

That excited devil had a woman with him, hiding her face, so I knew she wasn’t his wife. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But you don’t know that’s what would’ve—” “I was a pregnant, Untalented young woman,” her mother said, and she sounded much more serious now. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I recall once defending an African woman employed as a domestic worker in town. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man and a woman on other side, talking over row of com. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Virginia Company has sent not only men but families with women and children. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

All the cages she had seen in her visions; the glimpses of the fay trapped within them—she knew now that they had been imprisoned there by this woman. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Disguised as a peddler he went to the court where the lad was said to be, with gay ornaments in his pack such as women love, and also some fine weapons. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s the cat!” screeched a woman in terror. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

There was a woman sitting with her two children, a boy and a girl no more than seven years old, a few paces from me. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Her father was Cadmus, the excellent King of Thebes; her mother and her three sisters were women of blameless lives. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt confident about Blaine: he was a descendant of the black men and women who had been in America for hundreds of years. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Each time a tray of pastries was brought to him, he devoured all the fancies and pastries on it, leaving all the other women hungry. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

But that dodger, as soon as he had caught the woman’s eye and nodded, slipped away to join the ship. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harriet started working her way through the crowd, elbowing a man, nudging a woman. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I ran a store like this I’d paint all the cubicles pink and put some money into the mirrors: whatever else women want to see, it’s not themselves; not in their worst light anyway. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Cook seemed kind most of the time, but she was beginning to wonder if the older woman was what Daddy had referred to as Double-Talk Folk. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Now that I’m almost a woman, it’s time I learn to be responsible, Amá says. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

They came to a small room where a young woman sat at a desk before some papers. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then one of the women told him he was in the way there. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The woman with the phone is nodding her head. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Water was if the woman wanted to teach her man a lesson. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

As we hurried past, I saw a woman spit at a soldier, I saw the soldier raise a whip in the air. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the cottage, two old women stared, envy and hope mixing in their faces, at a tall, handsome woman with black hair and dark eyes and red, red lips. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“That explains it. Climbing into strange men’s cars. Disgusting woman.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Winter was coming, and the men and women in line held their coats tight around them and stamped their feet to stay warm. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

It took several months, but in the end Stalin liked the idea of forming aviation regiments for women. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

An elderly woman was watching me from a doorstep where she huddled, her dirty white widow’s sari drawn about her. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Lourdes recognizes a passerby, a heavyset woman with a veiled pillbox hat who praised her Boston cream pies. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The food that the tree gave to the woman and her children was as sweet as ever. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

There he sat down, pulling his tunic off, and tossed it into the wise old woman’s hands. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He allowed women to wear pants at public events. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Of how, with the imprudence of youth, the woman decided to test it to see if it really worked. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Accident and chance and the fact that you crouched and sniveled behind the skirts of greater men and women, and permitted me to kill them for you!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The sight of women preparing dinner always reminded me of the times I used to watch my mother cook. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“But didn’t they ever have a woman’s care?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Now you can just get on a plane anytime you feel like it and go anywhere in the world. Nations go to war over women like you. You’re an American.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

And even if I did, not as women love, as Judith loved him, or as we thought she did. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A woman who doesn’t even know where her husband is, and look at her!” they would say. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The woman in Boston thought the story had some real zip to it, so she called the network news editor in New York. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You see, spirit mediums are ordinary men and women when they’re not being possessed. A few of them fake messages when they can’t manage a real one.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Masha Dolina, whose first wartime job was to fly aircraft away from her burning airfield, was one of only a few lucky women whose commanders found a place for them right away. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“It was started by that rich Commie Roosevelt woman,” he replied with contempt. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

These were women who cared less about my last name or home address and more about who I was as a person. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We pretended this tall guy with a black mustache was a French painter here to find the woman he’d met in Paris years ago. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The nipple slipped out of Lyra’s mouth, and the woman lifted her up to her shoulder and patted her back. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“A wonderful story,” said the woman in delight. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The schoolmistress lay on the kitchen table, deep in sleep, and Xan kept both palms on the sides of the young woman’s face, concentrating hard. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

And she was different from any woman I’d ever met before. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The sensei was an older woman with mostly gray hair and a no-nonsense manner. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

And, indeed, the young woman smiled and shook her head. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Mostly people. There was a woman holding a broken sword, and a man next to a dead tree, and another man with a dog biting his leg ” she trailed off. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

On our way out, Eliza accepted a basket of dry bread from the woman who ran the boarding house. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I figured, even if she didn’t always know she was the woman who’d lived this life, she’d know how important it was. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I detach a woman’s head from her body and move on to the man behind her. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

But what most struck Winston was the look of helpless fright on the woman’s grayish face. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

There was a color photograph of a long-haired woman, wearing a red spangled costume that covered even less of herself than the bathing suits the gringa tourists wore in Señor Aguilar’s swimming pool. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

A young woman pushed forward, said she had already been there. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

That must be what was meant by fallen women. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

A tall Asian woman with a shaved head and glasses with round bright blue frames gets up. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

So our little intrigues played out while women whispered over the backs of the sofas and men, after supper, passed the port and listened to tales of the wars against the French and the Indians. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A man sits in the armchair with a woman balanced on his lap, and someone else perches on the arm, a can of soup in hand. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Lying on her back with eyes closed, Desdemona could detect the telltale oniony aroma of a Hungarian woman on her right, and the raw-meat smell of an Armenian on her left. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, it all felt so sad, not only the theft but the thought that the woman didn’t have a name. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sure exactly what was going on with the sex in either book, but the conflict and longing between the women in The Well of Loneliness were interesting. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

James Mott accepted, so it was a man, not a woman, who called to order the first women’s rights convention ever held in the United States. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Violet opened the door of the automobile and got out to shake the woman’s hand. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I’ve heard people try for their talent that were really good. Early this term an old man sang a song about... about this woman whose husband had gone off to war.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As the woman told my grandma—now my mom—in the lunch break room all those years ago, God never makes a mistake. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

To the pencil woman he said, “Number Two, any word from Milligan about our missing young friend?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sure you’ve dealt with the same thing, Valerie, as a woman trying hard to make her voice heard in what has been a boys’ club for way too long. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I prayed no other woman would have to choose between her hijab and getting home. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Few women would take such a risk, so midwives were scarce: on the day Judy left for Wyoming, Mother became the only midwife for a hundred miles. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was my hope that my appearance, as a Black Muslim woman in the sport of fencing who was on her way to the Olympics, would help alleviate anti-Muslim sentiment in mainstream America. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

She was embarrassed, but at the same time she was shy and delighted and determined to be as pretty as the woman wanted her to be. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The woman when she saw him put her arms around him and held him. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

But the old woman had lied and now his crossroad was reduced to one destination, a slow death in Georgia. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Ira and I did what we could; but the land is mistress to man, not to woman: the heavy work needed is beyond her strength. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

She passed out propaganda arguing that women didn’t need the vote because they were already represented by their husbands, fathers, and brothers. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, I’m going to be busy writing me a rap about dudes beatin’ on women. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry to hear that,” Mr. Gonzalez said and put the coat into an old metal locker in which Ignatius saw a bag like the two beside the old woman’s desk. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hears a young woman somewhere in the compartment, talking to her boyfriend on a cell phone, softly laughing. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had the idea that I’d write a book that was a biography of both the cells and the woman they came from—someone’s daughter, wife, and mother. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He remembered meeting the woman who said she was his aunt Alma. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The old woman had destroyed his family so thoroughly it couldn’t have been accidental. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“She often complains that none of us boys can seem to find a woman who will have us.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I hate to see sick people, old men and women lying in beds moaning, grabbing on to the nurses’ sleeves. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Single women never picked me up, only men, or men with women. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And she watched the swaying, sagging back of the woman who rode him. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is even reason to think that her mother may have carried an illness that will endanger others — — and the women need the space where their cott was. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time she touched down on the Island forty-eight hours after finding the Baggy, we were all addicts, fallen women with married lovers and illegitimate babies on the way. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I will never understand how a woman can bleed for a whole week and live to tell about it. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Your great-uncle—?” Now Marie-Laure wonders what memories crawl over the woman across from her. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then a woman comes out from under the dryer. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

One kneeling woman in red, one seated woman in blue, two in green, standing, a solitary man, thin-faced, in the background. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was halfway now, halfway between grey wolf and woman, but her face was a woman’s face. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

At the front, seated at a desk, was a woman Ralph knew must be Miss K. Her toothpaste was nowhere in sight. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then a woman with nice gray eyes and a heart-shaped face and a baby on her hip came and rescued them from the other ladies. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was the woman who came to the door. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t believe that after the variety of roles I performed, he is most enthusiastic about me acting sassy and being an angry and emotional woman. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

After a moment the woman sighed heavily and fell silent again. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He has a plan to draw at least a hundred figures like one he's already made of a peasant woman pitching hay. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He ignored the famous wine, women, and song. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Every moment I work in field, I think of you,” the woman said to Papa, switching to English, weeping harder now. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“No problem, no problem at all,” the old woman said. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

When he was a kid, he would tell people she was the most beautiful woman in the whole world. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

If he could fight all the men of Ireland why couldn’t he marry all the women? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Let me give you a little advice about women, Cal. Voice. Voice is a big turn-on for women. Never discount voice.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It aroused a sort of envy in both men and women. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

After the manner of men who see women quarreling, the doctor and Luke had withdrawn, standing tight together in miserable silence; now, at last, Luke moved and spoke. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The men struggled, the women screamed, but it did them no good. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

By Elizabeth’s instructions, she began to comprehend that a woman may take liberties with her husband which a brother will not always allow in a sister more than ten years younger than himself. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

How she would be an old, sick woman with lice in her hair when she came out—if she didn’t die in jail, that was. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gradually the performing range of the tune-carrying top line was extended upwards and higher, a process accelerated by the use of boys with high voices and even - heaven forfend! - women in some vocal groups. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“You think I don’t know what your life is like just because I ain’t living it? I know what every colored woman in this country is doing.” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Seventy-two more hours and I’m a free woman. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Let me see it” requested the young woman, entreatingly. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had tried Googling, but everything online was for grown women, actual moms. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The commander from 2, a middle-aged woman named Lyme, takes us on a virtual tour of the Nut, its interior and fortifications, and recounts the failed attempts to seize it. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The woman with the crow voice, her that threw the picture at me, stood up. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She smiled at the young chevaliers they passed—and smirked at the court women who eyed her pink-and-white gown. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

This woman nodded to me briefly, and then called to her little boy who was grubbing with some kittens at the back. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Sergeant Bickle looked at the woman, and again the comers of his mouth twitched slightly. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Lately Poppy kept bringing up Arab women and it made Liyana mad. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

At a place called Camp Davis, a holiday complex, forty-six people, mostly women and children, took refuge from the rising flood waters in the camp’s main building. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I have been telling all the women that for years.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I wanted to ask him who, what woman, had hurt him this way, that made him so scared about accepting love in all its wonderful forms. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought a strong woman would be able to manage Dad. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Standing in the doorway, with her hand on the shiny brass doorknob, was an older woman, smartly dressed, who was smiling at the children. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

The women are tall, short, black like asphalt or caramel brown. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Another member of the Society asked that I stop in before retiring. These women are seamstresses, they live alone.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Others raised me. Village women. Then, when I was old enough, he tooken me back. Said it was time for me to pay for what I done.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

One of the women asked me if there was any money in the house; I did not know. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The women joined in singing high rounds of praise. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

At least they were never sold off, an older woman told Ajarry. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Armpit stopped digging as his boss and a woman approached. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Some of the women cried at the sight of her, and I saw men, my father included, with tears in their eyes. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dear Lord, bless and protect this woman who has brought us her child to perform this sacred duty.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The workroom and the women in it had become a part of me. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

"I need a new wife, and I figured the best Belle in the kingdom would help me attain a look that women enjoy." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

In 1919, after years of struggle, women’s dream of getting the vote finally came within reach after the Nineteenth Amendment was passed by both houses of Congress. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Gullible women often took the girls all over their houses, just to hear them exclaiming over the finery. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is might fine hunting grounds right here on this step,” the woman said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to the Washington Post, the women “practically fought their way foot by foot up Pennsylvania Avenue....No inauguration has ever produced such scenes, which in many instances amounted to little less than riots.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

And it disturbed her that she had never seen the woman's face. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But the big woman—Gilly could see the pain breaking up the totem-pole stare—Trotter shuddered to her feet like an old circus elephant. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

I discovered that a man may not enter a house where a woman has recently given birth, and that a newly married woman would not enter the kraal of her new home without elaborate ceremony. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All around us, the field lights up with small fires illuminating the faces of women squatting by them to prepare meals. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Love is disposition, behavior, attitude, thoughts, likes, dislikes—these things make a beautiful woman, a beautiful wife. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, go, will you!” said the old lady in irritation, and Wang Lung, bowing hastily, turned and went out, the woman after him, and after her the gateman, carrying on his shoulder the box. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The women jumping one after another from the cliff, their beautiful silk dresses billowing in the air—pink, red, green, blue . . . indeed, like flowers falling.” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I find the blog of a woman named Josephine who explains the healing properties of gemstones and how to use them. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“This is the American version,” the woman said. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

She wore the same brown-checked Chinese dress until the Refugee Welcome Society gave her two hand- me-down dresses, all too large in sizes for American women. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

On one side of the bendy part was a woman with a crate on wheels packed tightly with plastic grocery bags, and on the other was a man painted head-to-toe in silver, reading a newspaper. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I was going to tell her about my amazing exploits, or at least some of them, but it was very clear that the woman was not in a good mood. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The doorbell rang and he admitted his wife, a dark, attractive, European white woman who carried a book under her arm. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad said a righteous woman never shows anything above her ankle. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“We thought it best,” the widow woman said. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t time to consider height or build or even if they’d freed men or women. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

October 15: Four women were arrested; two received suspended sentences, and two repeat offenders were sentenced to six months in the workhouse. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The older woman yanked it back down and pulled her to her feet, apologizing for her rudeness. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

How could he tell her that another woman had taken the beating meant for her, and might well the in her place should some mischance of battle fell Joffrey? A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“We re running two in the paper, one for a woman and one for a man.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother stared at the old woman in disbelief. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The women appeared from the shadows to whisk the smaller boys off to bed. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s the house of the woman he introduced us to at the market. He spent a few hours there. Then he went to this café.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I squish between a man with a Cats shirt and a woman with tattoo sleeves. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

In fact, she bet Dr. Mansfield had lots of women. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

There she sat in the midst of a large, busy room to look at some pictures of women who might be Momma. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Helene Wright was an impressive woman, at least in Medallion she was. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

They cut past two women who were meandering along, talking. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I might be drinking iced tea with a crazy woman. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

By then she was an obese woman with a very pretty face, and she ruled her whole roost with an iron fist, including Uncle Isaac, her husband. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pass the mikvah, shut and silent until nightfall, when the women will come. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Native Mexican women dressed in pale tunics slid their paddles into the lake and rowed slowly, serenely across the water toward what could only be described as densely vegetated islands floating on the water. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“You must make my apologies to your friend; but so good a charade must not be confined to one or two. He may be sure of every woman’s approbation while he writes with such gallantry.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Today a woman was talking about eating green vegetables and doing extracurricular activities to build a resume. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

This one was a hardcover by a great woman I had heard quoted at Council named Maracle. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

In some moments I believed her, this wise woman with an answer to every question; but I could never quite forget the words of that other woman, that other mother, who was also wise. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was a fantastic price because the most sought-after woman earned eight pesos a night, but they all accepted. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The other woman put a sailor cap on Klaus, who gazed in one of the mirrors, astonished at how ugly he looked. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

The woman straightens up and then drops into a curtsy. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Unit leaders held up flags to help steer people in the right direction as the women formed ranks in various divisions. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

A woman is bent over, hurling her whites into the dryer. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Two slim attendants carried the old woman out. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were picked up by a woman whom Papá had contacted in Mexicali. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The woman bites her lip, and the man looks away. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

At a preliminary hearing, on March 12, Osage men and women, many of them relatives of the victims, crammed into the courtroom to bear witness. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

At Sitti’s house, a small crowd of men and women had gathered tensely outside. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

A woman with one arm was sitting on the stairs telling a story to a group of people. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The strong old woman was walking away, and in her step there was the sadness of parting with an old but dangerously foolish friend. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Through the crack, I can make out the silhouette of a woman lying motionless in an all-white bed. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Coach Whit was the woman with the braids. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Someone handed it to the doctor and he bent over the gasping woman with it. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

“I don’t believe in schools, woman,” my father said emphatically. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bartender and the woman made some more signs; then she flopped back to Ignatius with two bottles of champagne and two glasses. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she speaks, I look around surreptitiously for these brothers of hers— Tribal men are notoriously protective of their unwed women, and I'm not looking for a fight. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Glancing round, I saw I had just passed on the roadside a farm cottage - from which a young woman in an apron, her attention no doubt aroused by the hom, had come running. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Taking up most of the space in the poster was a full-length picture of a smiling, dark-haired woman in a green satin gown. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Local jury commissions used statutory requirements that jurors be “intelligent and upright” to exclude African Americans and women. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t bear for Rachel to look like a funny little make-believe woman. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The diminutive woman stood up and spread her arms wide, tilting her head back. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Then the woman nodded as if she had decided to accept his story. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Your mother and father have been at it again,” the neighbour, a woman, said. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

An elderly woman like this would have no chance of swimming to safety, much less have the strength to cut a hole through her roof. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She had no time to ask her, for at that moment several sailors, with cloths tied around their faces, came down, unchained the feet of the women, and led them up out of the hold. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dog slept uneasily in the shade against a wall, a woman stood in a doorway across the street and looked at Eleanor, and two young boys lounged against a fence, elaborately silent. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The woman in the center was hopping up and down. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Or might be you just made up some names. Shagga, did you say? Is that a woman’s name?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When the boats came back, the women who lived on Terminal Island would be rushing to the canneries. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Buttercup’s mother was a gnarled shrimp of a woman, thorny and worrying, who had always dreamed of somehow just once being popular, like the Countess was said to be. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Doris is a tough woman, but she did not do well with violence and fighting. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

"Yes," I said, "but..." and I told Doctor Nolan about the married woman lawyer and her Defense of Chastity. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The grandstands at the finish line slowly filled with people fanning themselves with their programs—men in fedoras and Panama hats, women in flat-brimmed hats perched on their heads at jaunty angles. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

When the door was shut behind William, Matthew turned to the women on the stairs. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I suppose we were. I am—I’m sorry for your loss, Emma. Your grandmother was a good woman. The best I ever knew.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

In the smoky light, Kaede saw men and women approaching with weapons in their hands; some held swords, while others carried long wooden staffs or axes. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I sense the woman’s presence close behind, watching our moves. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

When we went in, the only people inside were the two chubby women in aprons who worked there. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only a handful of Soviet women had made spaceflights by 2012, whereas ten times as many American women had become astronauts and gone into space. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Up from the lonely hills, drifting on the wind, came a woman’s voice. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

A tall black boy recited a long, funny piece of doggerel, replete with filth, describing the physiological relations between men and women, and I memorized it word for word after having heard it but once. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young woman pulled the shawl down over her face. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The women arrived with pots that they set before the men. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Sixteen on my next nameday. And no child, but a woman grown and flowered.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“No. Don’t go. How about loving women? If I really loved some woman would it be like that?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“In New York, women give their eight hours to the white man,” one of the worshipers said in the poor woman’s defense. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

She is a short white woman with black hair. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Kit curtsied, noting with satisfaction that this was one woman who did not despise vain adornment. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The old woman’s voice was full of grief, of fear. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They knelt before each other, woman before woman, and man before man, and washed and dried each other’s feet. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Across from us, the woman surrenders a gun. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She was more child, those moments, than woman. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman is his, his wife, not only now for this surging experience, but tomorrow and next year. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is a cunning and dangerous woman, said Aunt Lydia. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I thought of the dark steep path through the woods, and how, if a woman stood there behind the trees, her evening dress would rustle in the thin night breeze. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

So I phoned this in, and the woman who was going to cut the stencil asked me, “What did his wife say?” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She'd been in the first class to admit women, and the codes had stuck with her. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Way down Carpenter’s Road, where the concrete sidewalks started, children hurried to the sliding places before shopkeepers and old women sprinkled stove ashes, like ancient onyx, onto the new-minted silver. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He knew about worldly women, so I asked him to keep me from becoming one. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

"You were the bird in the witch's caravan," he told the woman. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Let me get this straight,” the woman said. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The women of the Party were all alike. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

And there were women too, though almost all the women practiced the same profession. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The young women called up this important official and told him they had a secret they could only reveal to him in a private meeting. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Asleep? And the woman’s alone? No soldiers with her?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

"I see you know him well, Your Grace," the red woman said. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A second later, he opened them and met the old woman's gaze. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She’s an older woman, wearing a purple caftan and gold eyeshadow, but I can tell she is nevertheless an Aunt. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every now and then, I saw one of our women get dragged toward another clearing. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She wore a beige blouse and black slacks—the first woman I’d seen in weeks dressed in something other than a burqa or a shalwar-kameez. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

When I would go over to Ms. Durr's home to listen to these three formidable women, Rosa Parks was always very kind and generous with me. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The woman at Allstate had tried to convince him to insure his life for more than a million dollars, given that he had four children, and how much the business relied on him. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Johnson, the boy's mother, is a loud, big woman; Ranee saw her once by chance in a grocery store before they moved out of Ridgeford. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

That was the first time she’d heard that word, barter; not sitting with the old woman in the market this morning, but yesterday evening from her own master. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I imagine a mother as a woman who, first and foremost, possesses a great deal of tact, especially toward her adolescent children, and not one who, like Momsy, pokes fun at me when I cry. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She rode the trolley with her mother sullenly, her eyes hooded as she watched the crying girl ghost next to the chatty old colored woman. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“My mother was a good woman until she met King Arthur. She had a happy home with Lot of Orkney, and she bore him four brave sons. What happened after?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The way Taisin herself had felt when she had ripped into the fabric of the world to kill those wolves—that was only the beginning of what this woman could do. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The door to Mrs. Caruthers’s room swung open as Ophie approached, the seemingly frail old woman standing on the other side like an ill omen. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The heavyset woman sitting next to me bounced a toddler on her knee and did nothing to hide her skepticism. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

One big meriny colored woman was so ugly till it was worth five dollars for her not to come in, so he gave it to her. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

His gold and his silver were precious to him once more, and at times he marvelled secretly at himself that he had ever spent so freely upon a woman. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The throb pulsed on, insistent, and he saw hundreds of black men and women beating drums with their fingers. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She got the woman to her feet and walked her around the room, stopping every now and then to pour some ale into her. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman settles back in the chair and re-smooths the magazine in her lap. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

O’Brien got around to thanking the old woman a few days later, telling her how his wife had been jealous of such a fine sweater. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was, however, with some surprise that I encountered Dr. Trefusis among those boarding from the Dunluce, that ship being largely given over to the housing of women connected with the regiments. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I remember my family’s religion, and I hear the whispering voices of women. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How you feel sorry for a rich white woman?” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Elizebeth’s social circles, most married women did stay at home. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Grandchildren, then, the woman insists, and so after more deliberation they pick out three ebony elephants for the children of the children. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A hired boy took on a few, and Chris Beeston reluctantly agreed to don women's costume again, and for a time the sharers scheduled the plays with the fewest female roles. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The woman had been a palace fixture since she’d been engaged as a wet nurse when Aurelia was born, and she had been interfering and even criticizing ever since. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Another woman forwarded a stuffed hummingbird as decoration for the sickroom. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Can the girl rest her hands on my belly for a little bit?” the woman asked. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He jokingly suggested, to repay her a little for her Contention that he was the best preacher of the revival, that she was the best cook among the women. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He crashed into the woman and the two were suddenly locked in an embrace. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

One woman began to wail about a brother who had died at Daznak’s Pit, another of the damage to her palanquin. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I am very fortunate in having a wife who likes being a woman, which means that she likes men, not elderly babies. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He says nothing about what a woman does, in the case of another woman. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I told him I’d heard about so-called Mississippi Appendectomies, unnecessary hysterectomies performed on poor black women to stop them from reproducing, and to give young doctors a chance to practice the procedure. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

At the end of our cul-de-sac the driver, a woman, did a three-point turn, stalled once, and drove off up Kingfisher Meadows. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Neighbours, women...and I a failure, a woman who cannot even bear a child.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amari, Polly, and Tidbit had no choice but to follow the woman, who in spite of her size moved nimbly through the woods. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

His alibi—that he was with another woman—checked out, and it became clear that the forger who had implicated Brown had fabricated his story hoping to bargain with prosecutors for better prison conditions. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Several of the women present tried to hold on to Grandmother. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked out the window and the man walked fast-fast to a colored woman who was standing in the station door. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

There in the rock is the curved back of a woman identical to the one on the clay model. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

This is not the sort of woman who usually frequents gallery openings, of any kind. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Their women were clad in sealskins, some with infants at their breasts. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Starry manages to stick to "Auntie" when she addresses this terrible woman, but she's always worried that the Harm's going to slip out. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Another woman comes out from under the dryer and starts strutting across the floor. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

I hope you survive, child, the woman’s voice said. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She was a forceful, engaging woman whom I first met when I was studying at Wits, and her death revealed the extent of the state’s cruelty in combating our struggle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman’s mouth began to move again, and he found himself leaning forward to listen. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

In his stubborn ignorance, he had not even known he was being mocked; the carts were for eunuchs, cripples, women giving birth, the very young and the very old. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I wanted to hate Andrew for being with the bad women, but I could not. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He eventually met a nurse there, a woman from Dothan, Alabama, whose compassionate care made him feel comfortable and hopeful for the first time, perhaps, in his entire life. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He turned to help two young women down from inside the wagon. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A woman with a tight bun and a tablet stands in front of one of the pods. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

In the evenings, she and I would often do our homework together, sipping tea—two generations of Pashtun women happily huddled over their books. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I work so hard, sometimes I forget that I’m a woman.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could smell Mrs. Coulter’s scent again, and the roses, and the cigarillo smoke, and the scent of other women. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Janie’s coffee-and-cream complexion and her luxurious hair made Mrs. Turner forgive her for wearing overalls like the other women who worked in the fields. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

While Anthony did not regret the choices she made, she was profoundly disappointed when two other leaders of the women’s rights movement—Lucy Stone and Antoinette Brown—both decided to marry. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Cordelia is a serving woman, and also a soldier in the final battle scene. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dumbledore started to clap; the students, following his lead, broke into applause too, many of them standing on tiptoe, the better to look at this woman. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

My mother gives the woman back her child and strolls farther into the park. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

She survived the shock of her first elevator ride and stepped into a long corridor lined with chairs, all of which were full of colored men and women awaiting examinations. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, muscle strength is one thing. I meant women are weak in other ways.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of the nature of women, nothing final can be known. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And no doctor ever spoke to the frightened little black girl who trembled in the chair beside the dying woman. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I never promise a woman anything nor let her know what I’m going to give her. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Only women, children...and there’s an old grandmother over there. Did Amah really know something? Why her?” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The woman waved her finger at Felix and pointed back to her watch. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

A woman carrying a basket spies them and makes a shooing movement with her hands. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Anthony didn’t see the amendment as progress for African American men; she saw it as “an outrage against women.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I turn my eyes back to the ceiling of the elevator and try not to think about how tightly this woman is holding her baby—like she'll never let it be taken away from her. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But to see these women chatting casually—their faces radiant with freedom—was to see a whole new world. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She attended another women's rights convention in New York City in 1853, where a number of men in the audience tried to disrupt the speakers by shouting and hissing. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“What happened to his face?” the woman asked. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

When the performance is finished, the principal turns to a woman who has not moved throughout the performance and invites her forward. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Whether it was sentiment or rheumy eyes that troubled the old woman, I could not tell. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Some women stood by and spoke in lower tones, their arms folded. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He did not believe that women should participate in public life or make speeches about divorce. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

As they approached, Colin could hear the woman telling a story. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Men paid no attention to the work of women. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The convention consisted of six sessions, including several discussions of the role of women in society. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Woman after woman, when asked to name her husband, named several sequential husbands who had died violent deaths. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And this time, unlike with Annet, the woman loves him back. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The women in their beaded scarves and brightly patterned skirts are strong and equal to the men. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The woman goes fully dressed into the fountain to retrieve the pieces. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Day women come out when nobody expects them. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

All were instructed to dress in conservative casual wear: the women in blouses, straight skirts, and flat shoes; the men in polo shirts or button-downs, slacks, and loafers. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I wondered if the women might shed their uniforms for comfort. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The pencil woman cleared her throat, but this time she didn’t bother looking at the paper in front of her. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

As a white woman in Kinshasa I present possibilities, but even a black woman with my same purse and leather shoes would be approached on the street. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They’ve got off lightly. The children could have been taken away. Or the woman sent to prison. But von Linden’s a bit soft on children.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

When the second plane hit, the woman who was giving the news started to scream. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Some of these convicts haven’t seen a woman in ten or fifteen years. I think you’re old enough to understand what that means….” I was only gone two minutes, three minutes, maybe. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman shrugged and tapped on the cash register screen. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Montaigne, too, was right—right to think that the men and women of his day were hopelessly fallible when it came to understanding the world. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

There a woman is waiting with a child. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“You women should all be on your knees begging forgiveness for what I have seen here on this fence.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“People came up from the village, the women mostly,” the old man said. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

He gave the woman two dollars and fifty cents. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few women shouted and danced with joy. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Black woman in the South who raises sons, grandsons and nephews had her heartstrings tied to a hanging noose. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman who spoke seemed nervous and somewhat fearful. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The best outcome for the women as a pair is for them to cooperate with each other. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A naked baby clung to a woman, both asleep. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I see a woman purchase a street pretzel and my belly groans, on cue, issuing its vote. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Someone else said, “She was a very interesting woman.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

“You puked all over the women’s restroom,” Lily said, giving him a look. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

In the midst of all this, the young women who wanted to fly for the Soviet Union had to travel in to Moscow before they traveled out. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I know she doesn’t mean to take my hand in the same way the two women earlier did, but it’s still comforting, after she’d yanked her hand away from mine before. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was a new kid in the school district at the time because his dad married a new woman in this area. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

He spoke rapidly to his son: “Telemakhos, one of the serving women is tipping the scales against us in this fight, or maybe Melanthios.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The women were wailing and acting as if something terrible was happening to them. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Bengal, men and women don't touch in public. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He told her about the monks of Mount Athos, who in their zeal for purity banned not only women from their island monastery but the females of every other species, too. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

When he tried to dial a third time, the woman stopped him. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

"YOU?! What do you know about women's rights? You just said you were married off at age eighteen!" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you call me stupid!” the woman snarled. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thank you,” the woman on the other end of the line said. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The NACW, along with its publication Woman’s Era, the first periodical published in the United States by black women, became a powerful force in the fight for the ballot. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I sidestep a group of loud-talking women outside the Luxe Beauty Parlor, and a tired old man with round shoulders. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Those Black Jackets are in a really good mood. They’re going to kill the woman Dustfinger was visiting as well. Because she tried to find the book for him.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Up in the loft one of the other women—Rida by the stench—rummaged and banged. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Beautiful and altruistic. You’re some girl’s dream woman, you know that?” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

When I got outside, I felt pains in my crotch, I had held my legs together so tight trying to make that woman understand. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Included in the historic development was the election of Carol Mosely Braun, the first African American woman US senator in history. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

There was a moment’s silence as the woman examined it. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Stupid girl. They’ll never give us time to build something of our own, and if we did build something, they’d take it for themselves,” said the grouchy woman. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

It was the first national women’s political organization in the United States. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I was beginning to realize that he loved the woman—to her misfortune. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“A little while ago you spoke of God ‘getting you’ for killing those women. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I told the woman for whom I was working, a Mrs. Bibbs, that I needed an allday job that would pay me enough money to buy clothes and books for the next school term. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Defender reported on the killing of a black woman and child. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Gently the forester replied to this: “At home indeed your mother is, poor lady, still in the women’s hall. Her nights and days are wearied out with grieving.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She chuckled as she watched Tirza, a young woman about her own age, chasing one of her family’s goats once again. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.” The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Josiah was surprised that a Mexican woman had spoken to him, and he gave her the paper without looking at her face. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The small dark-haired woman looked up once—too far away for Tanin to make out her features—and ducked into the crowd. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The woman did, sobbing again, but without hope this time. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

As she sat down across from the woman, Ma realized the woman was agitated and nervous. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know I’m just a troublesome old woman. But I know that people cannot flout God’s laws with impunity.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry,” the woman says, “it doesn’t hurt.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He can turn effortlessly from the carnage of war into the felicity of a woman washing her hair in a mountain stream. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

At one of the foster houses where I’d stayed a woman told me she knew I was going to be a criminal because “anyone who sleeps that light has got to have a guilty conscience.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

They were the first women ever to receive it. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Whereas the black women enjoyed the support that came from being part of a group, starting in a pool was not an option for a male engineer. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

She stirred it carefully so that the spoon didn’t hit the sides, and at the end the young woman snapped her fingers, just like Richard had earlier. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“You wouldn’t be after seeing an old woman in there buying a codfish head for her cat, would you now?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

With this “noble” rase, he conned his own wife to look away from his obvious preference for the ‘ ‘animal” black woman. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A group of militia members holding machetes were pushing two women along. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She was a small woman with curly brown hair that had one single shock of white toward the front. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Married women were not allowed to teach in those days, hence most of the teachers were women made neurotic by starved love instincts. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Being with someone else, “man or woman, was something I did not want to ever happen.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She was a quiet, precise woman who had been at Welch High School so long that she had also been Dad’s English teacher. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“What business do you have here? Off with you!” the woman shouted. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Strauss feels that emotionally I’m still in that adolescent state where being close to a woman, or thinking of sex, sets off anxiety, panic, even hallucinations. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I dished myself out a helping of green string beans and turned to pass the tureen to the enormous red-headed woman at my right. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Besides, it was still entirely possible that this woman would eat me for a midafternoon snack if my answer displeased her. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I wander around the living room, looking at photos of generations of women who all look like Carla. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The lives and the suffering of the women got tangled together at Tutwiler. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I had heard men speaking compliments in the direction of women, but I’d never been aware of them going to my mother. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Married women don’t have jobs; we know this from our own mothers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You are safe?” he called to the woman. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I was asked by a plain woman in a large black velvet tarn. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

You were always super good at showing the relationship between guys and women, Nora. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

At the sound of her baby’s cries, the woman goes into her hut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was not at all a disagreeable woman, but she sometimes got rather cross when she was worried about money. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

On Wednesday evenings twice a month she attended a meeting of her book circle, five other women who enjoyed discussing Benito Cereno, Flowers of Evil, The Importance of Being Earnest, and Jane Eyre. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Soon the Art Lesson came running from the house, Doña Charito leading, cousins on stockinged feet, the old woman in tow, towards the muddy heap in the yard. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Besides, I refuse to ever “choose” between two women. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Where could I find this woman and fulfill my part of the deal with Bodega? Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Some women bowed their heads, others made the sign of the cross. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In stories about the Polenitsi, women warriors from the East, they were always described as being enormously tall and supernaturally strong. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Like women sitting for two hours under the marcelling irons only to wonder two days later how soon they would need another appointment. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Do you want me to be a woman of action or, really, just your ideal Silent Sufferer? Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

She turned her head to Nan and said in a loud whisper, “That woman reads nothing but trash.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The first picture had been a war film, and all I caught was the ending where the G.I. goes back to Europe to marry the woman who saved his life. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

It should be a relief, and for a minute it is—my mother wasn’t taken by the woman in black. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

In the other walls an X-ray of the same woman revealed the contracting journey of the refreshing beverage on its way to her delightful stomach! Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

The women were courageous, persistent, enthusiastic, indefatigable, and their protest against passes set a standard for antig;ovemment protest that was never equaled. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each of the women carried an oversize cloth banner suspended from an eight-foot pole. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He sees many beautiful women in the city, and he wants to paint them. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A woman tossed and turned in bed, her long hair trapping moonlight against the pillow. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Gone, too, is the woman Zeitoun found in her foyer—the woman whose cries he heard because he paddled quietly. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I place a measuring lace on her face, and my hand shakes as I draw contour lines along the fabric onto the woman's nose and forehead and cheeks. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Maybe that’s why the women were sad: the men left before they could make a baby. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, not necessarily this kinda teenagery, but of course your father and I are excited to see you become a young woman, making friends, going on dates.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The old woman had been famous in the city for inking the most beautiful elilith. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The other woman watched as her ID tags were dropped over my neck and Dr. Begbie put a surgical mask over my face. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She gave birth on the sand; the barbarian women were said to be able to birth in the saddle. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said, “The subject is ‘What if a woman ran for president?’ P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

There weren’t any machines that could do this work, so three women at a time worked together to lift the bombs. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

This woman was a Mexican like herself and as afraid of la migra as she was! Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The Steele woman threw a stool at the bartender, and the other two women menaced customers in the lounge with stools and broken beer bottles. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She smokes just like an old woman when life gets hard.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, he complained he felt caught between the woman's libber and the Catholic señorita. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“If he needs help...then he needs help. And I don’t think that woman is going to give it to him. Not for long.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Ezili-Danto, the Iwa of vengeance for women. She has the scars on her face, too. And she carries a knife. She will cut a man or woman if she feels betrayed.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

A short, rotund woman with cropped and curled hair, beautifully clear, dark skin, and a radiant smile walked out. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to remember the woman pulling off her wedding ring and pushing her baby forward, toward the armed guard. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Time and again, I have seen men and women risk and give their lives for an idea. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wore some of the world’s earlier high-heeled shoes, the first ‘designer’ perfumes, and owned the first side-saddle to allow women to ride as adeptly as men. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“The boy told me there was a woman aboard,” Claire said. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

As quickly as bridges and buildings were destroyed, hundreds of men and women with picks and shovels were sent to clear the rubble. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It was possible that this woman gave up a baby girl once, a girl with only a dream of a name, and then the grief of it drove her into this place. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

"As you say, rider," the woman answered him, gathering up her jars and bottles. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“But...who is this person you keep talking about? The woman?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The women of Raskova’s regiments seem to have generally escaped assault and unwanted attention. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Twenty minutes later, I caught sight of Barack across the room, in the grips of what looked to be an endless conversation with the woman, who was doing a large portion of the talking. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

So he went to the wife store, where endless women lined enormous shelves. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“What’s a woman thinking when she puts on a dress like that?” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“So you’ll be rid of the man and have possession of the woman just as you wanted,” I said with disgust. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The woman who came out had slender tribal marks on her face, two lines on each cheek. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Take it,” the woman said, jabbing it at the little girl. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

While she was showing me her different makeup applicators, the woman, who had stiff platinum hair and eyelashes tarred in mascara, told me I must be earning a truckload in commissions. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I look away as the servant women disrobe him. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Justice had formed a liaison with a young woman, and I knew he had no intention of going home. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You say that woman looks like your mom? She’s identical, even?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Only two people came out, a woman and a young child. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

For a moment the beautiful woman nodded and smiled, then disappeared into the grove, followed by her servants. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the plane, Reggie sat in an aisle seat, and struck up the conversation with a woman who asked about where he was going, and why. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Telemakhos and the herdsman scraped the packed earth floor with hoes, but made the women carry out all blood and mire. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pin glimmered with four diamonds, one for each of the states where women could vote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Landor had had a wife—a thin slip of a woman with a worried face. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman’s head. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Did you feel that way when Papa married that woman?” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“Whatever the rumors are, it’ll all be forgotten in a week—just you wait. Let him find a new woman he likes and you’ll vanish from the whisperings of the court.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inner strength and a great deal of courage! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I swing the flashlight over and he’s lying next to a woman, ain’t he? The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

During the time they were together he was very much preoccupied with other women and not home much. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I stood awkwardly in the back until the professor, a thin woman with delicate features, motioned for me to take the only available seat, which was near the front. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

None of the others follow, although, when we get inside, there are some women in gowns sitting on cushions and a piper playing a little tune. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The woman with the child on her hip kept her back turned, tending to the food. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then a woman’s voice breaks through, calling someone home to dinner. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The woman says: We have your son in Texas, but $1,200 is not enough. $1,700. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

During the speech, at a preestablished cue, the women in the front row of the balcony grabbed the satin banner and lowered it over the gallery rail. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Congo was a woman in shadows, dark-hearted, moving to a drumbeat. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to pretend I didn’t care what the woman said, but I did. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

A very fat woman came to the door. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

He wore a heavy sweater and slacks, and as the others looked up I heard the quick intake of a woman's pleasurable sigh. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man and old woman were only a part of this lostness and this hunger. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two black women sat stirring the beans and talking about a shared memory back from the city, about a play where the main actor had been too drunk to recite his lines. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“The community everyone deserves is a community that respects everyone. The Renegades respect everyone—LGBT, women, immigrants, Muslims, everyone.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

With the imminence of defeat, some women went into the street armed with sticks and kitchen knives. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

And I suddenly realized: it was Friday, and they were out here waiting for Jack Palance and the colored woman. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bus driver called back and asked the young Negro man and the middle-aged Negro woman to sit together so the white women could have one of the seats. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

There the current, after running over rocks where village women scrubbed their clothes, widened into a calm pool. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Indeed, the guard looked dazed and overwhelmed, and Pinmei suddenly realized how even a hero who would not be stopped by the fear of turning into ice could be slowed by a beautiful woman. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He said that the central air force headquarters had already received more than a hundred letters from young women begging to be admitted to military schools. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

A lover of men, not women, and an atheist, he used the device of space travel to criticize everything he disliked about the real world. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Protect your women: in a civilization that emasculates the male and abuses the female, and in which, moreover, the male is forced to depend on the female’s bread-winning power. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

This Muggle woman bought it, took it home, and tried to serve her friends tea in it. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Her breath caught when she glimpsed the old woman with silver hair standing at the stove. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I replay it in my mind to make it real, Tori’s body falling, the factionless woman’s hands covering her stomach. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

One of them, a stringy woman with a nose like a pig’s, stepped forward. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

An older woman had given me a tall glass of sweet iced tea as I sat there listening and responding to questions. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The young woman who had spoken was smiling. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Rather it was like a beautiful woman who requires the support and help of many faceless ones just to keep going. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was not ten paces from the train station when I heard a woman’s voice. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

If Scythe Curie had come across Citra on one of those days, would the woman have gleaned her? Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

One woman seats me in a chair and proceeds to put my hair in small rollers. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The interpreter at the hospital, a woman about my age with a wide, round face, cried as she delivered the news. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Zafoona was settled in a bedroom for a quick nap despite her protests that she wanted to help, while the other women retreated to the kitchen to prepare endless platters of food. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

We were standing in a crowd of guests, watching the bride accept rings from the groom’s family, when we overheard two middle-aged women talking, their backs to us. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She came in the middle of the night, wearing the same white dress that the women usually wore on their trips to dip their hands in the river. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I had drawn a figure of a woman with wild hair and evil eyes and a rope around her neck. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Not only was she the first woman in space, but her time in space exceeded the time spent by all of the US astronauts combined. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Telemakhos knocked at the women’s door and called: “Eurykleia, come out here! Move, old woman. You kept your eye on all our servant girls. Jump, my father is here and wants to see you.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A woman bumped my arm with a sterling candlestick while a man ran by holding an accordion. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The problem wasn’t only with the women, he says. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old women were Russian and the only Persian they spoke was the pinching of cheeks. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

"Come with me," the woman says softly, pragmatically. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She knew that gaining the vote would give women an important tool to bring about the entire social agenda she envisioned, since her membership and support for her cause were largely female. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

And how anybody after one look at your mother could believe any man would leave her for another woman just shows how far jealousy will make people go. A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

They look over, see me setting with a white woman on my front step. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure we can help you,” said the woman in the middle. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

He knew who this woman was, and what she was not. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Everywhere I look, there are little circles of women stitching, making the most precious things they can out of scraps of material. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Bull saw immediately that he had activated competitive juices within this prodigiously constructed woman. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’ve invented a pill so married women don’t have to get pregnant. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

One of the women was working a pattern of twining ivy. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

"It doesn't pay. She's a very strong woman. She has muscles like steel ropes." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

After Petra’s revealing book was published, Spassky was very upset, primarily because he didn’t want the woman or her book to come between him and Bobby and ruin their good relationship. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Both women were thrilled when the article won a Reader’s Digest contest. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Unmarried women who were thought to be pregnant were subjected to physical exams. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The old woman looked up at him when he said that, as worshipful as a repentant sinner testifying in church. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plenty of them were women, most of them old. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I was asked by a plain woman in a large black velvet tarn. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman took a bite out of her sandwich. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Consuelo waved her hand and walked over to talk to some women standing in line for food. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Though Mr. Kapasi had been to the temple countless times, it occurred to him, as he, too, gazed at the topless women, that he had never seen his own wife fully naked. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then they seized upon the young men and women. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the woman inside passed us the cash, Mom drove around to the front of the bank. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

And since the middle of the last decade, mathematicians had meant women. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

"I rent a room from a woman in Harlem," I said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other women, strangers, I can recognize a curled lip, a sidelong glance, pinched shoulders. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once there was a rabbit who danced in a garden in springtime with the daughter of the woman who had loved him at the beginning of his journey. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

And in fact, there are precedents for such a case, including one in which a woman successfully had her father’s DNA removed from a database in Iceland. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Yes, yes. I heard about it from my son. Poor things. I do hope you find them. Now, if you don’t mind—” “Oh, Beryl, did he say ‘children’?” said the old woman by the fountain. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She was a shy woman, so courteous she spoke in a voice barely higher than a whisper and she would not raise her pretty hazel eyes to meet my gaze. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Why should the child not break a plate? What food is there to eat from it anyway?” the breast-feeding woman asked sourly, still sniffling. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Rather than seek refuge from the cold inside the White House, the women paced back and forth on wooden planks to get their feet off the icy-cold sidewalks. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

And at the Sunday morning cocktail party, there had been just one or two women with whom she thought she might, perhaps, become friendly, after a time. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Over the years that followed, many of the men and women on his team became my colleagues and friends. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The woman has never been very reasonable, at any rate,” he said, in English, shaking his head. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her speeches were about the sanctity of the home, about how women should stay home. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fra-gile-ness is sitting on her bold as one n’em awful flowery church hats Ma and the other women wear on Sunday. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Some of the slave women quickly daubed her leg with mud and wrapped it tightly with strips of cloth ripped from their own dresses. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

We passed an old woman hanging a shamble-man made of oat sheaves. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

After burying her son-in-law, the old woman left the city. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

A young woman jogged to the center, pumping her fist over her head. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I know I’ve been here a long time,” the woman said, looking at the ground, “and you’ve been here for most of that, so yes.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

A woman rushed up to his side, her cornrows a tight and intricate pattern on her head. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Stanton asked Anthony to put her in touch with a lawyer who might help her identify eight of the “most atrocious” laws affecting women. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The women in attendance were appalled, but no one dared to challenge or contradict the religious leaders. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The woman said nothing as she passed by me but started singing the second verse of “Yankee Doodle” in a strong voice, which I thought curious indeed. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment Mona’s shadow seemed to arch overhead malevolently, but then Mona settled back into her chair, and she was just an old woman again. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He found a woman with flaccid breasts, affectionate and cheap, who calmed his stomach for some time. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The woman swirls one finger in the air in a circle motion. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Salva looked up at the woman in her neat uniform and shook his head to show that he did not understand. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pinned the flower to the young woman’s winter coat. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Her stepmother paused for a moment in the dark doorway, and Ash thought she could make out a faint smile on the woman’s face. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The wild women in his lap,” my father enthused, “laying their breasts on his head.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I don’t see the woman who checked us out the night I met Billy, but she suddenly appears from behind a huge stack of toilet paper. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m looking for my aunt. I could have sworn they told me Room One-oh-two, but there’s a colored woman in there.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another woman from the morning bioloaf group leans at the lake’s edge, observing the purple glow of a swarm of water butterflies where the pale floor normally would be. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Bloodblooms had sprouted from their gaping wounds, pale flowers with petals plump and moist as a woman’s lips. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A man sang that he would never forgive the ungrateful woman he once loved because she had abandoned him at what was supposed to be the happiest time of year. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The more this woman spoke, the more he felt it. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

In the spring of 1860, Stanton prepared a speech in defense of married women’s property rights and returned before the Judiciary Committee of the New York State Legislature to present it. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

She was aware of his libertine relationships with the women in the factory, but had ceased to be hurt by them. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of these women talk about any other kind of romance. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“It may be all very delightful to those concerned but as I like unmarried women better than those in the blessed state, I vote it a bore....” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old woman worried aloud to her daughter that the guests might die in her house; this kind of thing was felt to be bad luck. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Enrique sees a woman and a boy run up alongside his hopper. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

It occurs to him that there is something odd about that: the pride he takes in his horse; the nausea the woman provoked. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

A woman sitting hunched over in a back corner caught my eye. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Malachy barks at Michael for being such a fool as to tell a rich woman anything. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

American women spent years persuading the government to let them deliver military planes, but only Soviet women could fight air battles in them. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

She argued that since women were considered persons for the purpose of taxation, then they should be considered persons for voting, too. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The woman’s hair, long and gray, draped Over her neck like a fringed shawl. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

The woman points down a hall at the end of the large open room we’re in. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

When the sun had set he straightened his back slowly and looked at the woman. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

It was a sunny day, and around me the women were busy breaking camp. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

At another of the large tables Mary Debenham was sitting with two other women. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I love a woman who sings while she works,” Father said. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Hope was this fat old woman with a little dog. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reach for it, only to find it pulled away at the last second by a thin woman with a beak of a nose. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

About twenty women in black burkas swept back and forth, placing trays of food, enough to cover the rug and feed a thousand people. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“The Lord has brought you home,” the woman said. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The boy went on to an old woman’s hut. ‘Respected grandmother, may I stay with you?’ he asked. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman of the inn came in on tiptoe. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman sitting in front of her shot me a fearful look and crossed herself. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

All the women are nodding, their heads moving like synchronized swimmers. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Enrique receives 2‘A pesos for helping a woman in a small station wagon back up. Five minutes later, a woman in a blue dress arrives in a white Pontiac Bonneville. “ Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

By and by, she says, that woman will find her way. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

The woman who’d been knocked down was scrabbling on her knees after her food. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Antique shops?” the woman in Tourist Information began memorizing my features in case a robbery was reported later. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The back door opened, and out came a woman, all legs. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“My word!” a woman said, startled by the sight before her: a pack of small, dark-skinned faces and white eyes peering out from behind black plastic sheeting. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

A slim, smiling, well-preserved woman, wearing leggings, a large T-shirt, and an overly youthful weave, the wavy hair trailing all the way to her back. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“His father passed away last year/5 the woman said, in a lower voice. “This is our first vacation in London without him. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He merely invited a group of women to an event. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

But she saw a man in all black leather, another in a trench coat and fedora, a woman in jeans and a bright-red peacoat. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I could only think how lucky a woman would be to be married to Raji; he was so kind and clever. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

There are only women who are fruitful and women who are barren, that’s the law. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the elevator on the way down a guy with a bandaged face was moaning real loud and the woman with him was patting him on the shoulder. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Probably the crazy woman was going to let him go—why wouldn’t she let him go?—but maybe she wasn’t. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The Kenyan women with educations were strong, they had a voice, they had equality. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yevdokia was always there on the dark airfield to give instructions to the women who were flying that night, and to hear their reports when they returned. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Is the explanation any more absurd than that accepted by those who believe the woman who maintains that she is the channel through which a 35,000-year-old man expresses himself? Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman officer leans over and pushes the doorbell button again. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Above their heads the blind of one of the sleeping car compartments was pushed aside and a young woman looked out. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman is a magician with clothing, the papers say. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Of course, the famous woman poet at my college lived with another woman—a stumpy old Classical scholar with a cropped Dutch cut. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The women worried that she was having a heart attack. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

She has seen the woman in the courtyard—she can see the things no one else can see. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The only women in the unit were the secretaries—and Elizebeth herself. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

A strange woman stood in the living room. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she raised her comforter and slipped under the sheets, she looked as if she were all alone in the world, as lonely as a woman with two grown daughters could be. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

He had so much he wanted to say to her, but the crowd in front of him parted, and a pretty Latina woman walked through, straight up to Moss. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She points at a picture of a woman and then at another doorway, above which I see a picture of a man. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The Soviet press and government seemed conflicted about the presence of women in space, however. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

This was a gesture of kindness, indicating that, even if they had beaten the black woman, they would not beat me if I knew enough to keep my mouth shut. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She helps the woman realize, in some small way, her motherhood. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I twisted the woman so’s I was between her and the cap’n. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

There was a colored woman named Queen who lived in our block of flats. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Dr. Holiday was a beautiful black woman with a very pleasant scent. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

It was as if the woman had given them all a jolt of energy to snap them to attention. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I urge—I implore!—every man, woman, and child who has music in his soul not to miss one of his illustrious—nay, his glorious— concerts! The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young women were much pleasanter—smooth-skinned and sweet-smelling. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Children wrung the birds’ necks while women stewed them in pots, smoked them over fires, and dried them to preserve in storehouses. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“It is better for you to wear this night-gown,” the woman said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The men ate first, and when it was the women’s turn, the coconut cakes were all gone. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I knew when he left he was in danger,” the woman continued. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

A woman knelt before him, her lemony scent so familiar. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I walk up close and he whispers, “Some of these convicts have not seen a woman in ten or fifteen years. You’re old enough to understand what that means, Mr. Flanagan.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a young woman with a scarf wrapped around her head leaning against her oxygen tank; others are wheezing terribly; some are disfigured or badly burned. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

At the end, the sheriff marries the woman who owns the saloon, which is a watering hole for humans but not horses. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The next morning, the day of the fatiha, a flock of neighborhood women descended on the house and took charge of preparations for the khatm dinner that would take place after the funeral. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She kissed him—greedily, at that—but the women he’d loved in the past had always been eager. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A formidable woman dressed in a long skirt held out her hand. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“There’s a mistake here and there,” the woman said, patting Naima’s shoulder. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

Wonder if any of these women can answer that. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Only two people can tell this woman what to do: her ma and her husband. Unless you’re her husband you can’t tell her a thing.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

By the time she was a teenager, Elizabeth Cady had become outspoken in her support of women’s rights. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“You got that widow woman interested,” he laughed. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He asked the woman about the arrangement of doors and windows in the kitchen, and anything else he could think of. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

One was the manner in which Paul and the other leaders shifted attention away from state-level voting rights toward a constitutional amendment granting women the national right to vote. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I am standing with Maxine and a woman named Gina, who is one of the board members of Woman to Woman. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I hear she looks like a young girl sometimes and an old woman sometimes and a grown lady other times. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“I think not. Some free companies have been known to take women, but... well, they are not Second Daughters, after all.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It is a room of mostly young women, she sees. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

At first I saw only the shoes and ankles of these women who were surging in through the door, but when I glanced up a bit higher I knew at once who they were. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

“I want to see how flexible you are. Let me lift your leg,” the Liberation Army woman said in her gentle voice. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What did James Brown used to sing, Kevin? I know you’re old enough to remember. ‘This is a man’s world, but it wouldn’t be nothing without a woman or a girl’?” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

The women studied him in hostile silence as he went past. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Amarante Cordova was already talking to the approximately seventy-five people present, most of them either middle-aged or quite old men, interspersed by a few women, and maybe a dozen kids. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The reporters, men and women, white and black, representing media that reached around the world, sat looking at me with their pencils and open notebooks. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t lie to her and say that my pride, my iftikhar, wasn’t stung at all that she had been with a man, whereas I had never taken a woman to bed. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A white woman had spoken to Big Ma about me. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Look, you don’t want war with Zimbabwe,” said the big woman. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Cora enjoyed the woman’s company and frowned when she left. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“You look tired. Bags under your eyes and everything. That woman been letting you stay up all kinds of hours, hasn’t she?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

But the women were still being herded and domesticated. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The woman, Seeder, looks almost like she could be from the Seam, with her olive skin and straight black hair streaked with silver. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Aimee had been selected as the official coach of the USA women’s Olympic team the week before, which meant she’d be out on the floor with us in Rio and very involved in camp. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I like that she doesn’t sound like a woman. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The column of earth thickened into the twenty-foot-tall figure of a woman - her dress woven from blades of grass, her skin as white as quartz, her hair brown and tangled like tree roots. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Why should men be allowed freedoms that were deemed sinful for women to take? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

A young woman clambers into the back of the cab, and it pulls out into the cold and the rain. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Every head in the theater turns upward to find men and women in gray suits running across the walls. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Miss Glory came running in from the yard and the women from the porch crowded around. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman measured him with a pitying look. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Mary was also a shrewd and intuitive judge of character, an emotionally intelligent woman who paid close attention to her surroundings and the people around her. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The very idea of a grown woman hurting her boy kept her teeth on edge. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The woman checked the address on the door. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Behind the woman’s small house there was a bare dirt yard, and in the light of the lantern that Con held, they found the woodshed. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She said, “There’s no better way to look out for families than to make sure the government remembers the needs of children, women, and poor people. Who better to speak for children than women?” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

She could feel the woman’s hand squeezing her, her nail in her cheek. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I saw the old woman at the Virgin’s altar turn and nod approvingly when she saw Father Byrnes strike Bones. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said, “May, did you ever know a Deborah? Deborah Fontanel? A white woman from Virginia? It would have been a long time ago.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ma’am, I was just walking by and she was riding the pony and she f—” The woman stood and got in Dill’s face, radiating wild fury. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“Help me,” cried the woman on the table. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

One woman sews a triangle at the bottom of the neck. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

"Aegon," he said to a woman nursing a newborn babe in a great wooden bed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The best estimates put the number of victims at between four and five thousand men, women, and children. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Reports of women in science and other important professions occurred frequently, but there was also much discussion about the differences. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

"There's truth for you," said the woman in the faded scarlet dress. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Once more, she was looking into the eyes of the woman who had beaten her, threatened her, bought her once, and then sold her again and again. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t there, but Minnie, who is a little old woman, introduced me very prettily. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the grove behind them, three marble statues of women stood beneath the shadowy pines, their hands raised and touching, their legs extended as if frozen in mid-dance to some long-lost music. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Marco waves at the woman behind the bar, who then brings them two glasses of Bordeaux, leaving the bottle on the table next to a small vase holding a yellow rose. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Papa does more of the checkups and surgeries, and Dr. Ahmed helps women have babies. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The one thing Efifi did not contain was children, and there were almost no women. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neither did they have respect for women, who, although not their colleagues, so to speak, nevertheless deceived their husbands—regularly or irregularly, it made no difference. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The women would come to the kitchen door. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

You could tell something was badly wrong by the way the woman’s smile twisted and her body sagged. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

And then, as suddenly as she had appeared, the woman began to fade from Petra’s mind. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Other nights I slept at Mama Sweetie’s, a tiny woman in her sixties who was the best reader in Pine Level. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

But outside her chambers she found Utherydes Wayn waiting with two women clad in grey, their faces cowled save for their eyes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Men and women were sitting on all the baggage and boxes on top, and the women all had their fans going in the sun. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The woman’s two companions struck the man, who fled from the lounge. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guard looks at my card and directs me to the entrance to the women's camp. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Really?” the New Haven woman said, squeezing her paper cup in her hand, as though she thought it a great oddity, that a person at this gathering would like Nollywood. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Once they drugged women, induced labor, cut them open, sewed them up. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman said Harriet was clumsy, slow, no help at all, so the man set her to watching his trap lines. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman was overjoyed at the sight of so much thatching grass and she immediately began to cut it down with her sickle. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Lyra and Will went ahead, hand in hand, to the place where they had to part, and the women stayed some way behind, talking like sisters. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I was struggling to think of something appropriate to say when a younger woman spoke up. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Some are; others are hideous. Just as you find women everywhere.” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pictured his mom crying at the hair salon, slowly wrapping an old woman’s hair around curlers. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

My feet against the door of the stall, my head against my knees, I’m thinking of what I would say to a dead woman and wondering how I am ever going to go to class. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Stone worked for nine years to save enough money to cover her tuition at Oberlin College, and she became the first woman from Massachusetts to earn a college degree, in 1847. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

But then the woman gave a low cry of anguish, so full of sorrow and heartache all other thoughts disappeared. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Well,” he started, “your mom is a smart woman, but for me it’s different.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

When the police came, they recognized the woman as the mayor’s niece and arrested Tar Baby. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

One peasant woman explained, “A lot of us wondered what would have happened if we had known how to write. If we had known how to write, perhaps we wouldn’t be in this situation now.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“I have not been starving for more than a decade just to give in to a Dauntless woman with a leg injury,” Evelyn says. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then she thought, frowning, but if a man really loved a woman, wouldn’t he be willing to take risks to help her to safety? Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

For now, she busied herself with simply sleeping on silk, eating on gold and being the single most feared and admired woman in Florinese history. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She kindly invited me inside while a woman in her early twenties lingered behind her. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A creamy, blond woman luxuriates under a refreshing shower, her head thrown back in seeming ecstasy, her mouth opened in a wordless cry. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Ma walked to the house and the woman invited her in. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along with the shouts of men and women, every dog in the city was barking alarm, pigs squealed underfoot, and occasionally a musket would fire, which led to shouted oaths and yelps. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some was lost in gambling, some chipped off for taxes, and some acres torn off like coupons to buy luxuries—a horse, a diamond, or a pretty woman. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond and above spread an expanse of sky, dark blue as at twilight: rising into the sky was a woman’s shape to the bust, portrayed in tints as dusk and soft as I could combine. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Whether you were up meeting God, down in Brazil hating Yankees, or out West somewhere loving a Mexican woman, to those left behind, you had just plain disappeared. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

They were women his age mostly, with husbands, children, grandchildren too. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Men hung at a stage-bar, mostly drinking beer, while the women danced in stiletto heels so high they doubled as stilts. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Men, women and children seized articles and dashed inside shouting, laughing. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally he had women from the county to dine, and Alice was always sure to make the most sumptuous, seductive supper at her means. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She touched the women on the head, straightened collars, tucked blankets. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you feel like a woman when you are with me?” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

By the commotion, I know that a good-looking woman is coming this way. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman at the door was an awful sight, frozen half to death. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The older women shut their eyes and returned to their past; the older men envied Roberto. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

"Are you training women here?" the burned man wanted to know. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

These men and women were college educated and had careers as lawyers, doctors, journalists, businesspeople, and politicians. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We make a plan to meet in the lobby of the women’s hotel tomorrow at noon, and the four of them stand to leave. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Like a lot of girls, I became aware of the liabilities of my body early, long before I began to even look like a woman. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And, like the Jews in Germany, Japanese American citizens—men, women, and children—were rounded up and forced to live in internment camps with no regard for their civil rights. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“But a man like you—in public life—needs a wife who knows social business—who can entertain his influential business friends. I’m not that kind of a woman.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had cast hundreds of small things since he had gone to work for Mr. Lapham, but nothing so intricate and beautiful as the woman with folded wings whose body formed the handle. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seems that woman don’t know how to make nothing happen during the school day. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

A slim, sophisticated-looking woman approaches us holding a sign with six names on it. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When I wake up near morning, I’m still in the Sledge Game, and I’m chasing the woman who brought the card and arguing with the kid. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Believe what you will. You’re a young woman, Krithika. Young, lovely, and smart. All I ask is that you don’t throw away your life.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I’ll make it fine,” the woman claims, looking up at the sky. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyddie marveled that the woman would wear something so delicate for a ride to the northland in a dusty coach. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

She took the five-dollar bill the woman was holding out and made change from her lock box, focusing all her energy on the part of her brain that worked just fine. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Hey, you!” he sat up and called to the Vietnamese woman. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can tell that this woman has lost all hope of freedom. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I’m sitting next to this skinny woman who got on in Richmond. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pax had watched from under a table as his boy’s father had greeted a woman with a long silver braid streaming over one shoulder. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She dreamed the woman kissed her forehead, motherly. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Then a woman shouted, “They’ve crashed, Ted! Crashed in the garden!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Doctors warned women away from automobiles, fearing slow suffocation in noxious fumes. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fever of ambition drove men and women alike to seek advancement, even by deceit and betrayal. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

We were a group of about thirty “mature” women—that’s how Padre de Jesus described us, bless his heart. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At this the tall king, clarion in battle, called to his lady and her waiting women to give them breakfast from the larder stores. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we wandered along the shallow shore, the mist dissipated, exposing an entire community of canoes being steered by both men and women on the surface of the lake. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

She tells him that he can’t stay with this woman, that he’s still getting over the loss of Annet and his friends, and that he’s acting rashly. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z