Quotes by Women Authors

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. When you feed yourself what your body needs when it needs it, that's love. So give your bod some TLC and sit down and enjoy a good, substantial breakfast.

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

Margaret Ann Courtney

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

What is seen must always be the outcome of much that is unseen.

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 myself love getting cookbooks and novels that some congenial person has already tried and liked.

Cheryl Mendelson

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?

Maybe one day we will have
written about this color thing
until we've solved it.

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

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

Mary Rose O'Reilley

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

Florida Scott-Maxwell

If you aren't nurturing your self, what kind of mother can you be, anyway?

Sandra Scofield

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.

An astronomer who can devote his life to the sublime study of the heavenly bodies, and not exclaim, with deep humility of spirit, Great and marvelous are thy works, Lord God Almighty! Thou art worthy to receive glory, and honor, and power, for thou hast "created all things, and for thy pleasure they were created," is a madman indeed.

Mary Ann Harris Gay

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

Oh, and the easiest way to make someone furious is to tell her to calm down.