Womensfiction Quotes

“Stop worrying about people who see your path as a rejection of theirs, 'Cause that ain't your problem.”
― Dawn Keable, Settling Down

“Trust yourself. Trust your story. All you can do is tell it true.

Ringland, Holly. The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (p. 340). 4th Estate. Kindle Edition.”
― Naomi Lisa Shippen, Life in the Time of Coronavirus: An Anthology of Short Stories written in Lockdown 2020

“Who put sadness in your eyes?”
― Rachel Corsini, Sushi and Sea Lions

“a whiff of orange underneath a musky cinnamon, faint hints of lemon and cedar. Like the end of summer drifting into fall.”
― Rachel Corsini, Sushi and Sea Lions

“While I was dancing my ass off in arguably the best ballet company in the nation and earning my B.A. in English online my friends were marrying Billys.”
― Rachel Corsini, Sushi and Sea Lions

“Space? Honey, you don’t need space. You need closure.”
― Amelia Frostwood, Coming Back to You

“All the while, fighting for the self-respect and independence of her tribe, she was unaware of the chains of Patriarchy that bound her too. She had no place of her own. She was a nobody without the identity of a man, first her father and now her husband. She was as insignificant as the women she wanted to fight for. Life was a loop within the boundaries society drew around women.”
― Suranya Sengupta, Rishta Tera Mera

“You hand it all over to fate, with its cruel sense of humor and equally astonishing grace.”
― Lucille Guarino, Lunch Tales: Suellen