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“Let any lady who is inclined to be hard on Mrs. Cadwallader inquire into the comprehensiveness of her own beautiful views and be quite…

— George Eliot

“Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in…

— Jane Austen

“She was a dedicated churchgoer, devoted do-gooder, and throbbing artery of village gossip. She sharpened her tongue on the loose lives of others and…

— Christina McKenna

“Marie the Second sported a bright tignon to signal her status and identity. She flaunted her turban, gold jewelry, and a proud walk that…

— Martha Ward

“The red priestess shuddered. Blood trickled down her thigh, black and smoking. The fire was inside her, an agony, an ecstasy, filling her, searing…

— George R.R. Martin

“Sing, Marie of Arras. Do not forget, Marie of Arras.”

— Zoé Oldenbourg

“He’d heard of this woman. The Dame de Doubtance, they called her: a madwoman and a caster of horoscopes. Gaultier gave her house-room and…

— Dorothy Dunnett

“Adrienne Rich … did not die a woman who denied that her wounds came from the same source as her power. In fact, she…

— Cheryl Strayed

“Ah, Lyon: the Achilles’ heel of this family. She had forgotten about Lyon, and about disappearing Redmonds.”

— Julie Anne Long

“She had not eaten supper and remembered the chicken and salad and wondered where Ervin was and imagined him in a nice restaurant, being…

— Lawrence Naumoff

“Marie was one of those unfortunately constituted mortals, in whose eyes whatever is lost and gone assumes a value which it never had in…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“A fortress built long ago, Walls made timeless by historic glory. The small girl in the boat slows, To listen to its story.”

— Rachel Lewis