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“She was the cook, the hostess, the comforter, and the keeper of all the mysterious secrets for how to do just about everything.”

— S. Kelley Harrell

“She knew she had become the strange sort of lady that she remembered noticing as a child, the sort of lady who was always…

— Jane Smiley

“She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies. Men looked at her and wanted to fill her up with babies…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Anne had never seen Mrs. Merrill before and never saw her again, but she always remembered her as a woman who had attained to…

— L.M. Montgomery

“People, her people at least, were always chasing shattered hopes. A father gazing down on dead soil, with a brood of hollow-cheeked children sitting…

— A Cruel Harvest

“Mother gave a flick of a glance at the fork in Tori's hand. "Children without manners are a wound in a mother's side.”

— Megan Hart

“She is my companion on my many genealogical hunts, and I will be forever indebted to her for the knowledge that she bequeathed to…

— Rett MacPherson

“Charlotte blanched. 'I'm only a maid, miss.' 'A maid is still a woman.”

— Olivia Newport

“It was piecework, and she was apt to have a family to keep alive; and stern and ruthless economic laws had arranged it that…

— Upton Sinclair

“What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open. —Muriel Rukeyser”

— Debra Condren

“And when she was home, she spent her days lolling about the house reading mystery novels, watching television, and drinking wine. She watered and…

— Kathy Cooperman

“I told her my father was a retired janitor who liked to go fishing. She told me her father was a podiatrist who liked…

— Gary Shteyngart