Quotes by Women Authors

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

Mary Everest Boole

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

Isn't it sad that we only get upset about nasty things happening to people and places if television decides we should?

I have often thought I would have been quite happy as a spider.
Even a spider has the right to a mate.

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

Margaret Ann Courtney

The difficult art I was attempting had, indeed a powerful fascination, before which the past faded, the future receded, and the whole of experience narrowed down to this stretch of glancing, glimmering water, and the fly I was trying to cast across it.

She had gradually changed her name. "Jane" was too dull. Last year, she'd added a "y", becoming Jayne, which had more personality.

Caroline B. Cooney

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

Never judge people by who they date — your own sex life is confusing enough without trying to figure out someone else's.

Kim Gruenenfelder

People always grumbled. If things went well they wanted them to go better. Give them comfort and they wanted luxuries.

Eleanor Hibbert

She took a deep breath, looking up at the ceiling for a long moment. A raindrop moved slowly down her neck; he watched as it turned down the slope of her breast to disappear inside the collar of her shirt. He was seriously contemplating becoming jealous of a droplet of water. Yorkshire was obviously damaging to his sanity.

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

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.

If my hair gets any frizzier, I'll shave it to the scalp. Or light it on fire. Whichever is easier.

Suspense is torture... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world.

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.

Jill Paton Walsh

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.

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.

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

Mariah Fredericks

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

Cherise Sinclair

I shall not tell your husband and you shall not tell my wife." Tell them what?" That you and I were outwitted by a ropma." That would be shamful." Girl, we could never live it down.

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

Margaret George

Woman, a pleasing but a short-lived flower,
Too soft for business and too weak for power:
A wife in bondage, or neglected maid:
Despised, if ugly; if she's fair, betrayed.

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

Charlotte Turner Smith

I am beset with a dream of fair woman,
Lunatic for Venus flesh...