Quotes by Women Authors

You'll get through this. And I know it's impossible to believe right now, but it gets better. Trust me.

Susane Colasanti
Susane Colasanti
Magic is what we invent when we want something we think we can't have.

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

We only have one life to live, and must go on with it to the end, that if we feel it is meaningless, then we ourselves must give it meaning.

We're all going to die sometime, so you might as well die pushing the odds for something that matters.

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.

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

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

Elizabeth Coatsworth
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Did I, my lines intend for public view,How many censures, would their faults pursue,Some would, because such words they do affect,Cry they're insipid, empty, uncorrect.And many, have attained, dull and untaught,The name of wit, only by finding fault.True judges, might condemn their want of wit,And all might say, they're by a woman writ.

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

I see what grief does, how it strips you bare, shows you all the things you don't want to know. That loss doesn't end, that there isn't a moment where you are done, when you can neatly put it away and move on.

Travelling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, 'I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station'.

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

Eleanor Hibbert
Eleanor Hibbert
The Christian Scientists held that it was not God Who wanted sickness, but man who [put] himself in the way of suffering. If this were the case, though, wouldn't we all die in perfect health?

Gabrielle Roy
Gabrielle Roy
Just remember, Every day of your lives, you must always be sure what you're fighting for.

She knows what she sees. She has her eyes in the right place.

Johanna Spyri
Johanna Spyri
Darlings of the forest! Blossoming alone When Earth's grief is sorest For her jewels gone - Ere the last snow-drift melts, your tender buds have blown.

Doubt seems the only purity for those who are too fervent to deny, and too lucid to affirm.

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

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

Amelia E. Barr
Amelia E. Barr
Visiting any shop for the first time is exciting. There's always that buzz as you push open the door; that hope; that belief - that this is going to be the shop of all shops, which will bring you everything you ever wanted, at magically low prices.

At twenty-eight I'd had a handful of beaux, but had only been in love once, and that had been awful enough to make me doubt men and myself for a good long while.

Privacy is something that we maintain for the good of ourselves and others.