Quotes by Women Authors

Journeys start from where we are. Everything starts from where we are. Where we are is where we're supposed to be.

But I know what it means to crave what you're not. To want to sew up that rift because it's exhausting to hold it open. Sometimes you just need to be someone else, someone who doesn't care about anything at all. I know I do. I want emptiness but I can't have it.

Vanessa Veselka

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

People who understand grammar always have a keen sense of the ridiculous.

Mary Jane Holmes

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

There is a special blessing in old clothes, and that aside from their comfort, for which especially they are to be cherished. They confer a kind of anonymity on one who wears them gladly; all their bright places rubbed to a uniform dullness, they achieve an appearance so nearly nondescript that only a close scrutiny could learn that ever they held shape at all.

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.

Because I longed to comprehend the infinite I drew a line between the known and unknown.

Elizabeth Bartlett

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?

If there was no fear, how could there be comfort? Or courage?

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.

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.

Let bygones be bygones because everybody knew that forgiveness was divine.

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

Florida Scott-Maxwell

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

Eloise Jarvis McGraw

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.

Magazines and talk shows are filled with people who say that a successful # marriage is hard and requires a lot of work. But to # soulmates, their harmony often feels effortless, as though it is the most natural thing in the world to be completely at ease in a # relationship.

Rosemary Ellen Guiley

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

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