Quotes by Women Authors

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

There is no gesture more devastating than the back turning away.

My son called to me that God was inside his red fire engine. He wanted to show me. I did move as fast as I could, spilling like water through the kitchen door into a summer day, but God had left by the time I got there. My son smiled, told me I'd missed him by seconds.

Inverted heart,
becomes the testicles
of a man.

It is astonishing how violently a big branch shakes when a silly little bird has left it. I expect the bird knows it and feels immensely arrogant.

Katherine Mansfield

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

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

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?

It takes strength to be proud of yourself and to accept yourself when you know that you have something out of the ordinary about you.

Abigail Tarttelin

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

Rosamond Lehmann

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

When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was a child, between walls and trees that are hers.

Natalia Ginzburg

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

Is it for you to forgive me? Is it for me to forgive you? Is it for God to forgive us all, and for what? Where there's no judging on one side or the other, there's no forgiveness wanted.

E. Arnot Robertson

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

Eleanor Hibbert

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

Florida Scott-Maxwell

People think they have to be good before they can act good. But... it works just as well the other way 'round.

If my hair gets any frizzier, I'll shave it to the scalp. Or light it on fire. Whichever is easier.

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

Judith McNaught

But truth, that dangerous commodity, has a way of sticking...

And His that gentle voice we hear,
Soft as the breath of even.

It were a blessed sight to see That child become a willow tree, His brother trees among. He'd be four times as tall as me, And live three times as long.

Catherine Maria Fanshawe

That's how fossil hunting is: It takes over, like a hunger, and nothing else matters but what you find. And even when you find it, you still start looking again the next minute, because there might be something even better waiting.

Tracy Chevalier

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

Clarice Lispector

Why didn't children ever see that they could damage and harm their parents as much as parents could damage and harm children?

Laura Z. Hobson