Quotes by Women Authors

Foolish eyes, thy streams give over,
Wine, not water, binds the lover:
At the table then be shining,
Gay coquette, and all designing.

Map age genes place of origin
and love's lineaments. For mapped onto each body is love. Carthography of one's own country
or the contours of a foreign land

Part of the trouble is that I've never properly understood that some disasters accumulate, that they don't all land like a child out of an apple tree.

Replace ropes with bullets. Hound dogs with German shepherds. A gray uniform with a bulletproof vest. Nothing is new.

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

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

Why didn't children ever see that they could damage and harm their parents as much as parents could damage and harm children?

All it takes for America to become a theocracy is for nonbelievers to do nothing.

It were a blessed sight to see That child become a willow tree, His brother trees among. He'd be four times as tall as me, And live three times as long.

There's no way out of this, it's stark: live or die. Every given moment a bubble that bursts. Step on, from one to the next, ever onwards, a rainbow of stepping stones, each bursting softly as your foot touches and passes on. Till one step finds only empty air. Till that step, live.

It was funny, though, the things you didn't learn about people until after they died.

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

And His that gentle voice we hear,
Soft as the breath of even.

English country life is more like Chekhov than The Archers or Thomas Hardy or even the Updike ethic with which it is sometimes compared.

I have tried many times to express my feelings, but at each attempt, I find myself tongue-tied.

If there was no fear, how could there be comfort? Or courage?

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.

I've come down in the world. I've slid to a place where the ceiling is low and there isn't much room for me to move.Most of the time I'm good. I accepted my sentence and do not brood or look back. But sometimes a shift makes me remember. Routine is ruffled and a new start makes me suddenly conscious of what I've become -

Leila Aboulela
Leila Aboulela
A garden is a human creation. It has to be thought of first, wished into being, planned for like a child.

Amy Stewart (writer)
Amy Stewart (writer)
But one day, the things that make you free start to keep you down.

The greatest act of love was to make a tape for someone. It was the only way we could share music and it was also a way of advertising yourself. Selection, order, the lettering you used for the track list, how much technical detail you went into, whether or not you added artwork or offered only artwork and no track list at all, these choices were as codified as a Victorian bouquet.

Poetry is road maintenance for a fragmented world which seeks to be kept together. It's been an integral activity for a long time.

The only people who are truly happy are the people we do not know very well...

Susan Isaacs
Susan Isaacs
It ought to be a crime for any woman to have children that writes books.

Josephine Daskam Bacon
Josephine Daskam Bacon
The best way to get the better of temptation is just to yield to it.