Quotes by Women Authors

Everyone said that one day I was going to have a big accident, an accident to end all accidents. One day you might look up and see a kid falling from the sky. That would be me.

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

We have to take care of the moment and then move on to the next. We can't worry about what's to come.

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.

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.

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?

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

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

But one day, the things that make you free start to keep you down.

Jardine Libaire

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

Florida Scott-Maxwell

I became an archaeologist because I wanted to drive around in a big Landrover; smoking, cursing and finding treasure.

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.

People do pretty ugly things to make themselves feel better, this I do know.

Mariah Fredericks

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

How many brave Men, courageous Women, and innocent Children did I see butcher'd, to do God good Service?... I went to the Irish Rebellion, where I saw more than three hundred thousand Souls murder'd in cold Blood.crying, Nits will become Lice, destroy Root and Branch: with a thousand other Barbarities, too tedious as well as too dreadful to repeat, beside what has been transacted abroad.