Quotes by Women Authors

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

If you tell someone a secret, and ask them to keep it secret, you are asking them to display a discretion you are unable to display yourself.

Jill Paton Walsh

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

"You know, Mouse," [Tabby] said, "a brilliant cat like me should have smart friends; people who can count to more than four." "I can count to more than four," answered Mouse, very offended. "And I can do hard sums, and I know geography and history, and I can knit and..."

She had gradually changed her name. "Jane" was too dull. Last year, she'd added a "y", becoming Jayne, which had more personality.

Caroline B. Cooney

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

Minnie Maddern Fiske

Secrets are lies that you tell to your friends.

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.

I've come down in the world. I've slid to a place where the ceiling is low and there isn't much room for me to move.Most of the time I'm good. I accepted my sentence and do not brood or look back. But sometimes a shift makes me remember. Routine is ruffled and a new start makes me suddenly conscious of what I've become -

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?

Be kind to thy sister. Not many may know the depths of true sisterly love.

Margaret Ann Courtney

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.

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.

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

Mary Alice Monroe

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

Order, cleanliness, seemliness make a structure that is half support, half ritual, and - if it does not create it - maintains decency.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

Love is a state of the heart, but also, an activity. And quite an awesome one.

Maybe sometimes we can only see the truth about ourselves if someone shows us where to look.

Michelle Hodkin

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?

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

Gertrude Atherton

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

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

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

Jessica Day George

The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much.

Clarice Lispector

No matter what historians claimed, BC really stood for 'Before Coffee'.

Cherise Sinclair