Quotes by Women Authors

Darlings of the forest! Blossoming alone When Earth's grief is sorest For her jewels gone - Ere the last snow-drift melts, your tender buds have blown.

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

Carolyn Crane
Carolyn Crane
To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.

Sarah Stickney Ellis
Sarah Stickney Ellis
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
Juliana Berners
So this is one of those times when life is just handing you something, telling you what to do, which way to go. So enjoy it. It'll be fun. I guarantee. I can't guarantee we'll find the goddamn thing, but it'll be interesting. Then if we do find it - if we do- the payoff's huge.

Aye, you're neither one thing nor yet quite t'other. Pity, but there 'tis.

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

Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too truly to be fearful of the night.

We can only do what is possible for us to do. But still it is good to know what the impossible is.

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

Marie Vieux Chauvet
Marie Vieux Chauvet
There had been a frozen mist here, and the trees were spun into feathers. Their fragile brilliance made me wonder why, into the spotlessness of Creation, God had seen fit to introduce soiling, twisting, rampaging, Man.

Ireland regards sex, when she regards it at all, with an entirely primitive and practical eye.

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

Maybe one day we will have
written about this color thing
until we've solved it.

Had I a husband or a house, and all that longs thereto
Myself could frame about to rouse as other women do,
But til some household cares me tie
My books and pen I will apply.

I've come to think that's what heaven is- a place in the memory of others where our best selves live on.

When one went fishing in information networks, one also became fish food.

At least when somebody's suffocating, you can tell: you see their faces turn blue, their lips quiver, their eyes buck, and their throats jerk. But when a man is mentally packing his bags the suitcase is never out until he's already standing on the other side of the door.

Oh, and the easiest way to make someone furious is to tell her to calm down.

People who understand grammar always have a keen sense of the ridiculous.

Mary Jane Holmes
Mary Jane Holmes
It's funny. When you leave your home and wander really far, you always think, 'I want to go home.' But then you come home, and of course it's not the same. You can't live with it, you can't live away from it. And it seems like from then on there's always this yearning for some place that doesn't exist. I felt that. Still do. I'm never completely at home anywhere.

It ought to be a crime for any woman to have children that writes books.

Josephine Daskam Bacon
Josephine Daskam Bacon
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.

How dare you, unless you can hold up your own life as a model of rectitude, achievement, and halcyon happiness, open your mouth about the stubborn secrets of living?

Because I longed to comprehend the infinite I drew a line between the known and unknown.