Independent women Quote by A. H. Septimius

“His lips were approaching hers, but she could not taste sin. Not yet. Not until she knew the name of this golden haired man,…

— Katherine Givens

“Then she felt herself, she said, to enter into the very bosom of God, where she was transformed into her Beloved, so completely that…

— Frances Parkinson Keyes

“One that was a woman, sir; but, rest her soul, she's dead.”

— William Shakespeare

“Yes, she now believed that when her body died, her soul would go on. Gods she did not worship, and faith she had none,…

— Pearl S. Buck

“But she stepped forward and placed a finger to his lips and there it was before him. The greatest prayer to the gods he…

— Melina Marchetta

“She had a warrior's heart, but the gods in their blind malice had given her the feeble body of a woman.”

— George R.R. Martin

“There was something much greater she needed to feed her soul, and perhaps one day soon she would go...”

— Danielle Steel

“She stood, as it were, with her face to God and her back to the people, waiting to receive His word for the 'chose…

— Elisabeth Elliot

“She’d never been taken before, he realized. Not like this, where her surrender was complete, not when she couldn’t separate some small part of…

— Nora Roberts

“Perhaps her only legacy would be that she had known something immortal, and while eternity may still belong to God alone, not all things…

— D. Morgenstern

“When she learned how much God loved her, how much he valued her, the soul-corroding shame lost its power.”

— Jo Ann Fore

“I understood that she was more candor & despair than woman. She had refused to be flesh & triumphed. She was freer than I.”

— Antonio Di Benedetto