Quotes by Women Authors

Husbands and wives quarrel a lot more than anyone thinks, and it's oftener about little things than big ones.

Patricia Wentworth

The last cobwebs
of fog in the
black firtrees are flakes
of white ash in the world's hearth.

Denise Levertov

I have a hunch that our obsession with photography arises from an unspoken pessimism; it is our nature to believe the good things will not last... But photos provide a false sense of security> like our flawed memory, they are guaranteed to fade.... We take photographs in order to remember, but it is in the nature of a photograph to forget.

Michelle Richmond

I've come to think that's what heaven is- a place in the memory of others where our best selves live on.

Christina Baker Kline

My father and I, we can't soothe each other. I'm too young, he's too old, and we don't know how to talk anymore if we ever did

But one day, the things that make you free start to keep you down.

Jardine Libaire

It's funny. When you leave your home and wander really far, you always think, 'I want to go home.' But then you come home, and of course it's not the same. You can't live with it, you can't live away from it. And it seems like from then on there's always this yearning for some place that doesn't exist. I felt that. Still do. I'm never completely at home anywhere.

I used to solve equations easily. If train A left Sioux Falls at nine o'clock, traveling at a fixed rate, I knew when it would meet train B. Now I wonder if the trains will crash; or else I picture naked limbs through Pullman windows, each a small vignette of longing.

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.

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

Susane Colasanti

A man gets used to riding on at the break of day. Comes to think that movement and noise is where life is, when after all there's life in stillness and quiet too.

Love without friendship is like a kite, aloft only when the winds are favorable. Friendship is what gives love its wings.

But coming to terms with one's sorrow is one thing; sharing it with strangers is quite another.

Because we can't tell others about our accomplishments if we don't know them ourselves.

Beverly Jenkins

If we think saying no is going to hurt a guy's feelings, imagine what a restraining order will do.

Susan Jane Gilman

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

My idea of marriage, as of every other partnership,... is that each member shall contribute to it his or her personality, unrepressed and uncoerced. Thus, and only thus, we obtain the most complex synthesis possible, which may well surpass in beauty, as it surely does in interest and human value, the separate elements of such an association.

Phyllis Bentley

Every generation proclaims that each must lead his own life, but seldom grants the subsequent generation the right to lead theirs.

The mining industry might make wealth and power for a few men and women, but the many would always be smashed and battered beneath its giant treads...

Katharine Susannah Prichard

Aye, you're neither one thing nor yet quite t'other. Pity, but there 'tis.

Eloise Jarvis McGraw

The economy of gift, of art, is fundamentally opposed to the economy of war.

Mary Rose O'Reilley

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

One can write out of love or hate. Hate tells one a great deal about a person. Love makes one become the person. Love, contrary to legend, is not half as blind, at least for writing purposes, as hate. Love can see the evil and not cease to be love. Hate cannot see the good and remain hate. The writer, writing out of hatred, will, thus, paint a far more partial picture than if he had written out of love.

God made no mistakes when He created you. You were uniquely designed for success in your purpose.

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