Quotes by Women Authors

Rule number one: Why is it that the one time a cute guy talks to you, you have a friend who's in crisis?

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

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

Everyone said that one day I was going to have a big accident, an accident to end all accidents. One day you might look up and see a kid falling from the sky. That would be me.

I speak of knowledge, sir, which is not the bed-equal of learning... I speak of what comes from learning. I speak of understanding.

Secrets are lies that you tell to your friends.

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.

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.

You would not think that birds who have no brain at all could become so friendly. I swear some of them are more intelligent than many humans, but that says more about our fellow beings than it does about the birds.

Reason is necessarily the language of moral, political, and scientific argument: not because reason is holy or on some elevated plane, but because it isn't; because it is accessible to all humans; because, as well as working, it can be seen to work.

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.

As in so many cases of sexual abuse within the family, it is much more complicated than had it been done by a stranger.

I shift, an infinitesimal movement, towards him. It is like the leap from a waterfall. I do not know, until then, what I am going to do.

Madeline Miller
Madeline Miller
Nobody can make a monkey out of anyone who isn't a monkey to start with.

Imagine, if you can, what the rest of the evening was like. How they crouched by the fire which blazed and leaped and made much of itself in the little grate. How they removed the covers of the dishes, and found rich, hot savory soup, which was a meal in itself, and sandwiches and toast and muffins enough for both of them.

Frances Hodgson Burnett
Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Goddess teaches us that every ending is also a beginning. May there be rebirth from this death.

Things happen, and you can't make them unhappen. You don't get do-overs, you can't roll back the clock, and the only thing you can change, and the only thing it does any good to worry about, is how you let them affect you.

Jennifer Weiner
Jennifer Weiner
Everything wrong I've ever done has always seemed like the right thing to do at the time.

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

Johanna Spyri
Johanna Spyri
Streets like the one she lived on were no accident. They were the North's lynch mobs, she thought bitterly; the method the big cities used to keep Negroes in their place.

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've always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults.... There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of good taste.

Life on earth, filled with uncertainty and change, seemed far more difficult than what lay beyond the grave.

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
The soul is a millstone, an albatross, it meddles in everything. It creates ties to torture us.

Marie Vieux Chauvet
Marie Vieux Chauvet