Quotes by Women Authors

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

Margaret Ann Courtney

As in so many cases of sexual abuse within the family, it is much more complicated than had it been done by a stranger.

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

Jardine Libaire

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.

Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!

Wisława Szymborska

The whole process of getting old—it could have been better arranged.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Why is it that so many people think that charity consists in giving away merely what they cannot use instead of the article the recipient needs?

Mabel Osgood Wright

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.

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

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

Everyone said that one day I was going to have a big accident, an accident to end all accidents. One day you might look up and see a kid falling from the sky. That would be me.

"I wasn't going to say anything about that, Tabitha," he said quietly. "I only wanted to tell you that your compassion for other people overwhelms me.""Oh." She offered him a tenuous smile. "I'm just used to people condemning everything I do."He lifted her hand to his lips and kissed her knuckles. "I don't condemn you, my lady. I only admire you."

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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.

Rose Terry Cooke

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 last cobwebs
of fog in the
black firtrees are flakes
of white ash in the world's hearth.

Denise Levertov

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

Mariah Fredericks

How many brave Men, courageous Women, and innocent Children did I see butcher'd, to do God good Service?... I went to the Irish Rebellion, where I saw more than three hundred thousand Souls murder'd in cold Blood.crying, Nits will become Lice, destroy Root and Branch: with a thousand other Barbarities, too tedious as well as too dreadful to repeat, beside what has been transacted abroad.

Magic is what we invent when we want something we think we can't have.

Sarah Addison Allen

Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not write.

Elizabeth Bowen

We're all going to die sometime, so you might as well die pushing the odds for something that matters.

The Christian Scientists held that it was not God Who wanted sickness, but man who [put] himself in the way of suffering. If this were the case, though, wouldn't we all die in perfect health?

Just as vision is inseparable from our spiritual intelligence, our capacity to handle ambiguity, uncertainty, and complexity is bound up with our emotional intelligence.

The economy of gift, of art, is fundamentally opposed to the economy of war.

Mary Rose O'Reilley

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

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