Quotes by Women Authors

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

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

Denise Levertov

Imagine how they stood there, what they stood with
that their possessions may become our power.
Cardboard. Iron. Their hardships parcelled in them.

If prayers worked, Hitler would have been stopped at the border of Poland by angels with swords of fire.

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

Eleanor Hibbert

But I am a-eppisodin' and a-eppisodin' to a length and depth almost onprecedented and onheard of - and to resoom and go on.

Marietta Holley

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

The great advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing

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?

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

Susane Colasanti

Jane nodded, and she mentally thanked the several-greats-grandmother who had decided she'd rather risk royal displeasure than give up a book.

The trouble with Ian [Fleming] is that he gets off with women because he can't get on with them.

Rosamond Lehmann

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

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

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

Julia Spencer-Fleming

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

Minnie Maddern Fiske

No," I said finally. "Slowness in Answering," she said into the handheld. "When's the last time you slept?" "1940" I said promptly, which is the problem with Quickness in Answering.

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

It's not the fledgling birds that are thrown out of the nest by their parents and made to fly; it's the parents who are made to get the hell out of cozy family nest by their teenage offspring. It's we who are made to be independent of them, crash-landing if we don't manage it.

Rosamund Lupton

The law of cause and effect does not hide in the realm of the unexpected when intelligent beings go looking for it.

Gertrude Atherton

Probably my greatest satisfaction was to indicate by example now and then, that women can sometimes do things themselves if given the chance.

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

Riding upon the back of a waterhorse - what mortal had ever stayed in such a seat for so long? On a horse made of cold currents and liquid convergences, jests and trickery - pressed against a hide like the burnished sea of midnight, thing look different to the rider.

Cecilia Dart-Thornton

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.

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