Quotes by Women Authors

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

Last night I had rinsed out my sari strip and briefs in the sea. I walked down naked to where they hung in the branches of the silvery leafed tree beside the creek. Underneath the lazy sensuality of a luxurious stretch from toes to nose I felt the strong unequivocal demand of my blood. I hugged myself for a moment watching the grey light yield to dawn through half-closed eyes.

Let bygones be bygones because everybody knew that forgiveness was divine.

I used to solve equations easily. If train A left Sioux Falls at nine o'clock, traveling at a fixed rate, I knew when it would meet train B. Now I wonder if the trains will crash; or else I picture naked limbs through Pullman windows, each a small vignette of longing.

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

Wisława Szymborska

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

Cherise Sinclair

But I know what it means to crave what you're not. To want to sew up that rift because it's exhausting to hold it open. Sometimes you just need to be someone else, someone who doesn't care about anything at all. I know I do. I want emptiness but I can't have it.

Vanessa Veselka

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

If you aren't nurturing your self, what kind of mother can you be, anyway?

Sandra Scofield

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?

Celestine Sibley

Journeys start from where we are. Everything starts from where we are. Where we are is where we're supposed to be.

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

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. When you feed yourself what your body needs when it needs it, that's love. So give your bod some TLC and sit down and enjoy a good, substantial breakfast.

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.

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

Marie Vieux Chauvet

Magazines and talk shows are filled with people who say that a successful # marriage is hard and requires a lot of work. But to # soulmates, their harmony often feels effortless, as though it is the most natural thing in the world to be completely at ease in a # relationship.

Rosemary Ellen Guiley

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

Christina Baker Kline

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.

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.

We are part animal, part human, and part divine, and the moment we forget the possibility of any one of those, we are lost.

Unconsciously we grow to look upon the sick as people of another world.

I became an archaeologist because I wanted to drive around in a big Landrover; smoking, cursing and finding treasure.

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.

Kalisha Buckhanon

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

Carol O'Connell

We, who have had tender, perfect mothers, would like to make it law that the other kind should always be called 'she-parents,' or 'female progenitors,' or any other descriptive title, but not profane the sacred name of mother!

Florence L. Barclay