Quotes by Women Authors

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'.

Lisa St Aubin de Terán

You must not allow yourself to be advised, cautioned, influenced, persuaded

Minnie Maddern Fiske

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

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

Because its myriad glimmering plumes Like a great army's stir and wave; Because its golden billows blooms, The poor man's barren walks to lave: Because its sun-shaped blossoms show How souls receive the light of God, And unto earth give back that glow I thank him for the Goldenrod.

Then I wondered if that's all God ever is—somebody who loves you enough to come back from the dead to visit every now and again. Or if that's all that other people ever are—different faces of God walking around.

The one sole thing in myself in which I glory is that I see in myself nothing in which I can glory.

Catherine of Genoa

Nor elves, nor fays, nor magic charm, Have pow'r, or will, to work us harm; For those who dare the truth to tell, Fays, elves, and fairies, wish them well.

Maria Edgeworth

I look at you, angel, and I want you so badly. I want to be with you, listen to you, talk to you. I want to hear you laugh and hold you when you cry. I want to sit next to you, breathe the same air, share the same life. I want to wake up to you like this every day forever. I want you.

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.

Rose Terry Cooke

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.

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?

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.

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

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

Bess Streeter Aldrich

When we fill our thoughts with right things, the wrong ones have no room to enter

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of exiles.

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.

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

George Ella Lyon

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

Mary Alice Monroe

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

Judith McNaught

I love to live vicariously, in a book or a holo, but I think I can stand one dose of reality before it's my time.

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

Jessica Day George

Racism doesn't know color, death doesn't know age, and pain doesn't know might.

Jacqueline Woodson

I think I only appear smart by staying quiet as often as possible.