Female Author Quotes

“We have flattered ourselves by inventing proverbs of comparison in matter of blindness,--"blind as a bat," for instance. It would be safe to say that there cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families. Tempers strain and recover, hearts break and heal, strength falters, fails, and comes near to giving way altogether, every day, without being noted by the closest lookers-on.”
― Helen Hunt Jackson, Ramona

“In a certain sense, you do write to seduce the world, but when it happens, you begin to feel like a whore. The disparity between your life and your work turns out to be as great as ever. And the people seduced by your work are usually seduced by all the wrong reasons.”
― Erica Jong, Fear of Flying

“Next time!" In what calendar are kept the records of those next times which never come?”
― Helen Hunt Jackson, Ramona

“There is fire and starlight in your veins.”
― Erin Forbes, Fire & Ice: The Kindred Woods

“Gazing around, looking up at the lofty pinnacles above, which seemed to pierce the sky, looking down upon the world,--it seemed the whole world, so limitless it stretched away at her feet,--feeling that infinite unspeakable sense of nearness to Heaven, remoteness from earth which comes only on mountain heights, she drew in a long breath of delight, and cried: "At last! at last, Alessandro! Here we are safe! This is freedom! This is joy!”
― Helen Hunt Jackson, Ramona

“I hear nothing but the hustle and bustle of the city. Cars with flashing lights zip past me. People talk, some loud, some quiet. I whisper to myself. “This is what it’s like to go unnoticed.” I take in a deep breath and inhale the freezing air. It smells like ice here. Ice and cigarettes.”
― Rachel Ellynn M., mind weaving

“Hold onto the things that you have forgotten. Let go of the things that you remember.”
― Hanako Footman, Mongrel

“There had been no crises of incident, or marked movements of experience such as in Felipe's imaginations of love were essential to the fulness of its growth. This is a common mistake on the part of those who have never felt love's true bonds. Once in those chains, one perceives that they are not of the sort full forged in a day. They are made as the great iron cables are made, on which bridges are swung across the widest water-channels,--not of single huge rods, or bars, which would be stronger, perhaps, to look at; but myriads of the finest wires, each one by itself so fine, so frail, it would barely hold a child's kite in the wind: by hundreds, hundreds of thousands of such, twisted, re-twisted together, are made the mighty cables, which do not any more swerve from their place in the air, under the weight and jar of the ceaseless traffic and tread of two cities, than the solid earth swerves under the same ceaseless weight and jar. Such cables do not break.”
― Helen Hunt Jackson, Ramona

“I wrote this book for the Nelson Mandela's of our communities who are willing to stand up for change and people who are oppressed or suppressed from fulfilling their life's purpose”
― Sahndra Fon Dufe

“Shake me, take me by my shoulders and turn me
Over and under until I can’t recall how it feels to
Have my feet planted on the ground.”
― Rachel Ellynn M., mind weaving

“The shock to our systems
Made us both trip;
We fell,
The pair of us,
In different directions.”
― Rachel Ellynn M., mind weaving

“I AM NOT about making movies that would be forgotten. I want to make ONLY timeless classics. I don't care if it takes me ten years”
― Sahndra Fon Dufe

“There is a Chinese superstition that those who commit suicide wearing red clothes will become powerful, vengeful ghosts. They will come back and seek retribution for the injury done to them when they were still alive.”
― Yu-Han Chao, Sex & Taipei City

“...to capture those momentous events in print seemed as daunting to Mercy as was the triumph of the Revolution itself.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation

“Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.”
― Terry McMillan, Disappearing Acts

“Because you can be a lot of things in this world, but you can never be another person. That's the deal. You're stuck with yourself.”
― Sarah Hepola, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget