Quotes by Women Librarians

Laura Bush

Nella Larsen

Judith Krug

Adelaide Hasse

Vicki Myron

In the new science of the twenty-first century, not physical force but spiritual force will lead the way. Mental and spiritual gifts will be more in demand than gifts of a physical nature. Extrasensory perception will take precedence over sensory perception. And in this sphere woman will again predominate. She who was revered and worshiped by early man because of her power to see the unseen will once again be the pivot—not as sex but as divine woman—about whom the next civilization will, as of old, revolve.

Elizabeth Gould Davis

Don't waste time blaming yourself when you can spend time planning how to destroy our enemies.

Sarah Rees Brennan

Material that might be illegal is such a minuscule part of what is available that we have to remember — and I mean not only librarians but everybody has to remember not to let it overshadow the incredible wealth of information that is available in this medium.

She [Irene] wished to find out about this hazardous business of "passing," this breaking away from all that was familiar and friendly to take one's chances in another environment, not entirely strange, perhaps, but certainly not entirely friendly.

Forks are absurd, he scoffed. They insult your food. They make it think you're killing it twice.

Clare B. Dunkle

I also want to encourage anyone who has been affected by hurricane Ka, uh, Karina...

In November, the smell of food is different. It is an orange smell. A squash and pumpkin smell. It tastes like cinnamon and can fill up a house in the morning, can pull everyone from bed in a fog. Food is better in November than any other time of the year.

I mean, how would anyone learn anything if they weren't curious? How would scientists make discoveries? — We all have the right to be different, don't we?

Annette Curtis Klause

A miracle is a single mom who works two jobs to care for her kids and still helps them with their homework at night. A miracle is a child donating all the money in their piggy bank to help victims of Hurricane Katrina. That's where you'll find the hand and face of God.

The good, the bad, that's just life. Let it go. There's no need to fret about the past. The question is: who are you going to share it with tomorrow?

Coordinating the retreat was important too, so important that Jiaan had assigned Aram as Fasal's assistant, to be sure he didn't overlook anything important. Like the fact that they were supposed to retreat.

So now she and I are friends - not with benefits, but memories.

Never forget that it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile.

Whenever I begin reading a new book, I am embarking on a new, uncharted journey with an unmarked destination. I never know where a particular book will take me, toward what other books I will be led.