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“Leonard Woolf’s endurance of Virginia’s famous frigidity is, we must suppose after the fact, altogether to his credit. Their honeymoon did not bring the…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

“She knew that Virginia's survey of the world was limited to people, the clothes they wore, and the carriages they drove in. Her own…

— Edith Wharton

“I had heard of Virginia before only in passing, a "crazy ex" with whom things had not ended well. I was accustomed to this…

— Alana Massey

“Suddenly it was all very clear to Vanessa that all that mattered was that she get out of this place, far away from this…

— Maeve Binchy

'The Virginian' has a very important romantic story line that you don't find in a lot of Westerns... At the heart of the story…

— Bill Pullman

“Victoria was an innocent country gentlewoman who spent her time reading, teaching the local children, painting, gathering armfuls of heather in the meadow. Vivien,…

— Lisa Kleypas

“Jim was there, too, Amelia’s husband, a man whom Vanessa would have liked to enjoy less. He was a pretty fantastic guy. This was…

— Sharma Shields

“…if men and women would only trust, understand, and help one another as my children do, what a capital place the world would be!'…

— Louisa May Alcott

Wildness had never been a part of her life. Home, work, home, work. That's all her life had consisted of, really. She'd told Maddox…

— Gena Showalter

“Louise was an urbanite, she preferred the gut-thrilling sound of an emergency siren slicing through the night to the noise of country birds at…

— Kate Atkinson

“Right now she is reading Virginia Woolf, all of Virginia Woolf, book by book-She is fascinated by the idea of a woman like that,…

— Michael Cunningham

“Dorothea was not only his wife: she was a personification of that shallow world which surrounds the appreciated or desponding author.”

— George Eliot