Before Her Quotes

67 quotes by 61 authors

It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained. — Charles Dickens
I was given baby doll toys myself, and they proved a stark reminder that my life was expected to revolve around childbearing - just as… — Beth Ditto
The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that… — Alice Hoffman
I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald. — Lena Horne
My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her… — Camille Paglia
Like Hillary Clinton before her, Mrs. Obama has always been a working woman. She is a lawyer turned hospital administrator turned political right hand. It… — Andre Leon Talley
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer.… — Henry David Thoreau
On a sticky August evening two weeks before her due date, Ashima Ganguli stands in the kitchen of a Central Square apartment, combining Rice Krispies… — Jhumpa Lahiri
For I love the empress of my soul. I love and I cannot but love. You yourself see the whole of me. I shall fly… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
She envied Ralph his dying, for if one were thinking of rest that was the most perfect of all. To cease utterly, to give it… — Henry James
â€¦words have been all my life, all my life--this need is like the Spider's need who carries before her a huge Burden of Silk which… — A. S. Byatt
How I saw in her my own true nature. What was beneath my skin. Inside my bones... Even though I was young, I could see… — Amy Tan
Long, dark, and lovely she had been, in those days before her mind broke and the parts scattered and she let them go. — Daniel Woodrell
She had learned, in her life, that time lived inside you. You are time, you breathe time. When she'd been young, she'd had an insatiable… — David Wroblewski
When she walked through the woods (infrequently now) she picked her way along the path, making way for the boy inside to run along before… — David Wroblewski
Who shall blame him? Who will not secretly rejoice when the hero puts his armour off, and halts by the window and gazes at his… — Virginia Woolf
She regretted having taken his hand, she wanted to get away from there as soon as possible, to hide her shame, never again to see… — Paulo Coelho
Redd stared at the bald head bent down before her. How refreshing Vollrath's sacrifice was. He didn't beg for his life. He didn't embarrasss himself… — Frank Beddor
Sister," he murmured, not as an inquiry, but a statement of fact. "Brother mine," she groaned... before her consciousness slipped from her grasp and she… — J R Ward
(Unsure if she should laugh or groan, Astrid held fast to the tank before her as Zarek pushed the snowmachine to the limits. It vibrated… — Sherrilyn Kenyon

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