Jayne Stone > Quotes

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion with one's courage."   Anais Nin”
― Jayne Stone, Lost Dreams: The Story of Eadburg, Queen of Wessex

“Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat."   Anais Nin”
― Jayne Stone, Lost Dreams: The Story of Eadburg, Queen of Wessex

“How wrong is it for a woman to expect a man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?" Anais Nin”
― Jayne Stone, Dreams of Power: The Story of Cynethryth, the First Lady of the English

“The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby."   Natalie Wood”
― Jayne Stone, Lost Dreams: The Story of Eadburg, Queen of Wessex

“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength."   Corrie Ten Boom”
― Jayne Stone, Lost Dreams: The Story of Eadburg, Queen of Wessex

“We can never become gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease." N. K. Jemisin”
― Jayne Stone, Dreams of Power: The Story of Cynethryth, the First Lady of the English

“Gæð a wyrd swa hio scel!  Fate goes where she will.”
― Jayne Stone, Hædfeld

“Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy, it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all."   Anne Morrow Lindbergh”
― Jayne Stone, Lost Dreams: The Story of Eadburg, Queen of Wessex

“Tis too bad the world is not run by women, lord. Instead of wars... we'd just have a lot of angry countries, not speaking to each other.”
― Jayne Stone, Dreams of Power: The Story of Cynethryth, the First Lady of the English

“Most women are one man away from welfare." Gloria Steinem”
― Jayne Stone, Dreams of Power: The Story of Cynethryth, the First Lady of the English

“the secret to happiness is freedom. And the secret to freedom is courage.”
― Jayne Stone, Dreams of Power: The Story of Cynethryth, the First Lady of the English

“children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving.”
― Jayne Stone, Lost Dreams: The Story of Eadburg, Queen of Wessex

“You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake." Jeannette Rankin”
― Jayne Stone, Dreams of Power: The Story of Cynethryth, the First Lady of the English

“Do you really believe that everything historians tell us about men--or about women--is actually true?  You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who never tell the truth except by accident." Moderata Fonte *****”
― Jayne Stone, Dreams of Power: The Story of Cynethryth, the First Lady of the English

“I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish He didn't trust me so much."   Mother Teresa”
― Jayne Stone, Lost Dreams: The Story of Eadburg, Queen of Wessex

“Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death."   Annie Lennox”
― Jayne Stone, Lost Dreams: The Story of Eadburg, Queen of Wessex

“nurtured”
― Jayne Stone, Winwæd