Quotes by Women Authors

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

Dignity is like morality, Mirabilis barked. Too much is as bad as too little.

When I was four I thought everything in TV was just TV, then I was five and Ma unlied about lots of it being pictures of real and Outside being totally real. Now I'm in Outside but it turns out lots of it isn't real at all.

I keep my clocks a little fast / so time won't take me by surprise.

I suppose I could let bygones be bygones, forgive and forget, yadda yadda. But where's the fun in that? These pretty little bitches got everything I ever wanted, and now I'm going to make sure they get exactly what they deserve. Does that make me sound awful? Sorry, but as every pretty little liar knows, sometimes the truth's ugly-and it always hurts. I'll be watching.... Mwah! -A

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

If it's easter than east and wester than west, it must be north.

Jessica Day George

If you're afraid of something, face it. Fear is irrational. The only way to conquer your fear is to stand next to it.

Jennifer Armintrout

For just once in my life, I'd like to get through a whole week without having to deal with some fool, white or black, who's got an attitude about the way I look.

Good-bye is always hello to something else. Good-bye/hello, good-bye/hello, like the sound of a rocking chair.

George Ella Lyon

Only of one thing I am sure:
when I dream
I am always ageless.

Elizabeth Coatsworth

"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..."

My main home is in Fayetteville, Arkansas, a college town in the Ozark Mountains. I live on the highest hill in a quiet cul-de-sac, surrounded by friends.

Ellen Gilchrist

It is not difficult to find a religious justification for killing.

Karen Armstrong

One of the most popular narcotics to ease the pain of economy is cherishing the belief that better days are ahead. This is both efficacious and commendable, but it sometimes turns out to be a habit-forming drug.... Things to which you look forward too long are almost invariably disappointing when you get them, and you might die first anyway.

Marjorie Hillis

Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine - that is, activity - which could solve it, is seen as odious.

Margaret George

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

What compels any of us to do the things we do when deep down a part of us just wants to break free from it all?

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

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

Margaret Ann Courtney

Without risk, we are automatons going through our days with no purpose or meaning. We are safer, perhaps, but we are also, ironically, closer to death.

Sarah Strohmeyer

Money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.

The great advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing

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

It is better to remember our love as it was in the springtime.

Bess Streeter Aldrich