Jane Quotes · Page 10

Great women scholars like Jane Harrison and Gisela Richter were produced by the intellectual discipline of the masculine classical tradition, not the…

— Camille Paglia

“How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be…

— Kathryn Hurn

I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

— A. N. Wilson

I know in my soul when something feels like a sell out and I think for me, I knew that if I…

— Eric Avery

When you talk to young girls these days about their role modles, very few mention a chemist like Madame Curie or an…

— Anonymous

“Payne put her palm up to her pounding heart. “I . . . don’t understand why you would . . . do…

— J.R. Ward

To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be…

— Bruce Feirstein

There's something in the Zeitgeist now. A lot of [film] scripts I get have these very dark themes, a cornucopia of dysfunction.…

— Christine Vachon

I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by…

— Laura Marling

I think Jane Fonda is to be admired for her stands.

— Barbi Benton

Before 'Austenland,' I got do a lead role in 'Northanger Abbey', which is Jane Austen. Growing up in England, you can't really…

— JJ Feild

There is an episode [in "Mary and Jane"] where there is not a lot of pot smoking, but there is a giant…

— Harry Elfont

Jane Austen, much in advance of her day, was a mistress of the use of the dialogue. She used it as dialogue…

— Elizabeth Bowen

To me, the thing that has always ruined Jane Fonda is her voice.

— Florence King

It was strange to think that all the great women of fiction were, until Jane Austen's day, not only seen by the…

— Virginia Woolf

I care what my reader thinks. There is no fancy recommendation you can give me that would matter to me as much…

— Adriana Trigiani

“Jane: "Look, Dave Chandler left me on the ninth floor of our university research library without my panties after we lost our…

— Molly Harper

“To be together is for us to be at once free as in solitude, as gay as in company. We talk, I…

— Charlotte Brontë

I read "Pride and Prejudice" [by Jane Austen]. I was gobsmacked by it - it's so funny and so modern. Unbelievable. You…

— Julie Walters

To be sandwiched between Jane Curtin and Bob Newhart for a couple weeks is phenomenal.

— Noah Wyle

I adore Jane Lynch, so just to get the opportunity to work with her was phenomenal.

— Matt Bomer

Their spirits and their visions are embodied in their craft. And so is mine. It's not Jane Saw Puff. But the clarity…

— Sharon Olds

Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.

— J. K. Rowling

I've been fortunate in that I never actually read any Jane Austen until I was thirty, thus sparing myself several decades of…

— Cathleen Schine

Totally whatever we want to put in there. Then it was really "Now we are going to make it. We really need…

— Harry Elfont