Quotes by Women Illustrators

Beatrix Potter

Tove Jansson

Jessie Willcox Smith

Stevie Smith

Natalie Babbitt

Judith Kerr

Virginia Lee Burton

There are hurts so deep that one cannot reach them or heal them with words.

Facts are the barren branches on which we hang the dear, obscuring foliage of our dreams.

Natalie Babbitt

I felt ten years old and a thousand years old, but I didn't know how to be my own age. I had never felt that way before, but now I feel like that a lot.

Lynne Rae Perkins

The wall is silence, the grass is sleep, Tall trees of peace their vigil keep, And the Fairy of Dreams with moth-wings furled. Plays soft on her flute to the drowsy world.

Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

Everyone needs time to develop their dreams. An egg in the nest doesn't become a bird overnight.

Part of my passion for all things Christmas is seeing my holiday stuff again every December. I suppose I do have more than most folks, so the reunion each winter keeps me in the holiday spirit for a full year. And there are always a few pieces out in my house whatever the month.

Mary Engelbreit

There is much wisdom that may be learned before a peat fire.

Ellen Bernard Thompson Pyle

The last hour from midnight had lost half its quarters, and the stars went lifting up the great minutes...

Clemence Housman

Never plan a picnic' Father said. 'Plan a dinner, yes, or a house, or a budget, or an appointment with the dentist, but never, never plan a picnic.

Elizabeth Enright

The Little House was very happy as she sat on the hill and watched the countryside around her. She watched the sun rise in the morning and she watched the sun set in the evening. Day followed day, each one a little different from the one before... but the Little House stayed just the same.

Virginia Lee Burton

Everything that I have told you is, of course, a fairy tale. Life is magical, after all. Nothing is safe and everything changes.

Trina Schart Hyman

Let's stick together." "Well, you're going to have to wait here for me there: I'm going to the bathroom." "But how long are you going to be?" "Oh, three hours?" "Rocky...

The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east. Strange!

For I am coconut / and the heart of me / is sweeter / than you know.

To marry and have children is the ideal life for a woman. What career could ever be as fine? To give the world splendid men and women-isn't that the noblest thing a woman could possibly do?

Jessie Willcox Smith

She's my friend, the boy said simply. That's who she is and that's enough for me. As Minli looked at the buffalo boy, aglow with happiness against his poor surroundings, she saw it was enough for him. More than enough, as the smile that kept curling up on his face told her.

All the famous people had had an awful time. One of them had a drunken father. Another had a stammer. Another had to wash hundreds of dirty bottles. They had all had what was called a difficult childhood. Clearly you had to have one if you wanted to become famous.

Blue to get ready Green to go Yellow to guide you through the snow Orange to warn you that over you'll go Then red will be the final glow Now seek the black, there's no going back.

Over the years I have learned that motherhood is much like an austere religious order, the joining of which obligates one to relinquish all claims to personal possessions.

Everyone must imagine his own snakes because no one else's snakes can ever be as awful.

I don't see what people get from hating other people unless it's a special thing I just ain't hip to.

Alexis De Veaux

Can you know excellence if you've never seen it? Can you know good if you have seen only bad?

E. L. Konigsburg

My captain once said that you meet people in your life who you believe will be your companions on the road, only to discover that they fall by the wayside. Others who you meet without design climb mountains with you,

Coleridge received the Person from Porlock
And ever after called him a curse,
Then why did he hurry to let him in?
He could have hid in the house.

I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!