Quote by Becky Lee Weyrich

“He looked at her as if she were already one of the ugly nameless bodies in the mortuary, and with a medical man's sober,…

— Erik Fosnes Hansen

“She was quite a kindly woman. What she said at the last in the kitchen was quite true. ‘I didn’t want to kill anybody.’…

— Agatha Christie

“She could see the headlines now. ‘Spinster dies alone in her condo. No one discovered her corpse for three days.’ She had been so…

— Diane Merrill Wigginton

“Her faculty for hitting the right nail on the head is almost miraculous – especially as all her blows have the air of being…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“In an era where women undress their outfits & give their bodies so carelessly, become the rare wild woman that undresses her mind and…

— Nikki Rowe

“A maid’s yard, house, wardrobe, fridge, etc. sometimes also serve as her master’s dustbin or dumpsite.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“She was a stranger in her own life, a tourist in her own body.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

“She was one of those invalids who has to lie down a lot, and sometimes can't lift a bread knife, but can shift a…

— Lynne Truss

“And you may comfort yourself with the thought that you have been the caltrop under her satin shoe every step of the way. You…

— Frances Hardinge

“There was almost an air of penance about her, as if, by doing these dirty jobs which she found so distasteful, she was trying…

— Kathy Shuker

“The ads in the papers all said 'help wanted, will train,' but wherever she went she was turned down. "The position's just been filled,"…

— Julie Otsuka

“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