Quotes by Women Authors

If you tell someone a secret, and ask them to keep it secret, you are asking them to display a discretion you are unable to display yourself.

My insides still turn over when he looks at me that certain way.

Judy Blume
Judy Blume
The mining industry might make wealth and power for a few men and women, but the many would always be smashed and battered beneath its giant treads...

Katharine Susannah Prichard
Katharine Susannah Prichard
In following their line through, and those of Plantagenet and Tudor, there is but little to soothe the mind.

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

I have been much afflicted again lately by visitors... and they gave me to understand that if they had had the arranging of the garden it would have been finished long ago - whereas I don't believe a garden is ever finished. They have all gone now, thank heaven.

Elizabeth von Arnim
Elizabeth von Arnim
He stomped away like a pint-sized Godzilla looking for Tokyo.

When we strike a balance between the challenge of an activity and our skill at performing it, when the rhythm of the work itself feels in sync with our pulse, when we know that what we're doing matters, we can get totally absorbed in our task. That is happiness.

How little do they know human nature, who think they can say no to passion, so far shalt thou go, and no farther!

We are the whirlwinds that winnow the West—
We scatter the wicked like straw!
We are the Nemeses, never at rest—
We are Justice, and Right, and the Law!

Mothers know the difference between a broth and a consommé. And the difference between damask and chintz. And the difference between vinyl and Naugahyde. And the difference between a house and a home. And the difference between a romantic and a stalker. And the difference between a rock and a hard place.

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

Carolyn Crane
Carolyn Crane
And still the aster greets us as we pass With her faint smile, - among the withered grass Beside the way, lingering as loath of heart, Like me, from these sweet solitudes to part.

Sarah Helen Whitman
Sarah Helen Whitman
Lips move; lips touch; lips signal. Lips are on the outside for show, and on the most secret inside of your mouth. Lips frame words that lie. Lips frame a hole that wants to be filled.

I've got this image in my head of how I want my life to look, and I have absolutely no idea how to get there. And I'm so scared that I'll make some wrong decision - just one - and everything will get messed up and go wrong -for good.

Jealousy had a taste, all right. A bitter and tongue-tasting flavor, like a pitch pit.

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.

The one sole thing in myself in which I glory is that I see in myself nothing in which I can glory.

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

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

Like I'm dragging bundles of old clothes? I'm carrying artifacts that breathe fire. I'm talking about a language of smoke. These are three-dimensional creatures that can mate. I'd no more leave them go by the side of the trail than I would my child. I'll carry them until someone amputates my arms.

The method of solving problems by honest confession of one's ignorance is called Algebra.

There has been no lack of courage in Ireland; there never is, but even our courage has a fatal quality.

It's not the fledgling birds that are thrown out of the nest by their parents and made to fly; it's the parents who are made to get the hell out of cozy family nest by their teenage offspring. It's we who are made to be independent of them, crash-landing if we don't manage it.

Inverted heart,
becomes the testicles
of a man.

Sheri-D Wilson
Sheri-D Wilson