Quote by Alexandre Dumas

“No matter the gender or location, the students brought her joy and frustration, laughter and sometimes sorrow, but they gave her a worthy reason…

— Lawana Blackwell

“One day she told the class, ‘Nancy Clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that’s one definition of a…

— Truman Capote

“If there are young ladies in the world at her time of life more dull of fancy and more careless of pleasing, I know…

— Jane Austen

“And they’re all nice, cheerful environments, because that’s what the women deserve.”

— The Guardian

“was the only provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.”

— Jane Austen

“But for this epoch we must wait—wait, perhaps, till kings and nobles, enlightened by reason, and, preferring the real dignity of man to childish…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“Her hospitality was something exquisite; she had the gift which so many women lack, of being able to make themselves and their houses belong…

— Sarah Orne Jewett

“She is not fashioned for a life among strangers.”

— Johanna Spyri

“One of the plainest truths about both towns and individuals is that they usually don’t turn into what we tell them to be, but…

— Fredrik Backman

“Careful, young woman. Smart-mouthed females are prized here.”

— Beverly Jenkins

“Eliza. I need to borrow you for a little while.” Mrs. Grier has a bad habit of grabbing the first student who walks through…

— Francesca Zappia

-she remembered them kindly, for there was a sweetness in boys that didn't last long, once they became men.

— Larry McMurtry