Quotes by Women Authors

Jane Austen

J. K. Rowling

Agatha Christie

Virginia Woolf

Emily Dickinson

Helen Keller

Colette

Many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are.

Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature — and little girls certainly have this drive, as much as little boys do, or at least the little girls I have observed in my immediate family have it.

To write weekly, to write daily, to write shortly, to write for busy people catching trains in the morning or for tired people coming home in the evening, is a heartbreaking task for men who know good writing from bad. They do it, but instinctively draw out of harm's way anything precious that might be damaged by contact with the public, or anything sharp that might irritate its skin.

Five minutes! Zounds! I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!

A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.

My desk, most loyal friend
thank you. You've been with me on
every road I've taken.
My scar and my protection.

Marina Tsvetaeva

To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.

Agatha Christie

So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.

When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.

Lady Margaret Sackville

I tasted - careless - then -
I did not know the Wine
Came once a World - Did you?
Oh, had you told me so -
This Thirst would blister - easier - now

Emily Dickinson

Reality even when it is sad is better than illusions. Illusions are at the mercy of any winds that blow. Real happiness must come from within, from a fixed purpose and faith in one's fellow men.

I think I only appear smart by staying quiet as often as possible.

Be kind to thy sister. Not many may know the depths of true sisterly love.

Margaret Ann Courtney

No matter what historians claimed, BC really stood for 'Before Coffee'.

Cherise Sinclair

People do pretty ugly things to make themselves feel better, this I do know.

Mariah Fredericks

There is a special blessing in old clothes, and that aside from their comfort, for which especially they are to be cherished. They confer a kind of anonymity on one who wears them gladly; all their bright places rubbed to a uniform dullness, they achieve an appearance so nearly nondescript that only a close scrutiny could learn that ever they held shape at all.

But coming to terms with one's sorrow is one thing; sharing it with strangers is quite another.

Love is a state of the heart, but also, an activity. And quite an awesome one.

But one day, the things that make you free start to keep you down.

Jardine Libaire

Children live in a way that is very generous. They learn from a young age what you value; they watch your every move. If you value writing, they will learn quickly to value it too, as something they can give to someone, or receive with pleasure from someone else.

The sport and game of angling is the true means and cause that brings a man into a merry spirit, which makes a flowering age and a long one.

Juliana Berners

The soul is a millstone, an albatross, it meddles in everything. It creates ties to torture us.

Marie Vieux Chauvet

A garden is a human creation. It has to be thought of first, wished into being, planned for like a child.

Amy Stewart (writer)

"You know, Mouse," [Tabby] said, "a brilliant cat like me should have smart friends; people who can count to more than four." "I can count to more than four," answered Mouse, very offended. "And I can do hard sums, and I know geography and history, and I can knit and..."