She Began Quotes
45 quotes by 43 authors
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The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she…
— Gertrude Stein
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Marilyn always dreamt of being an actress. She didn't, by the way, dream of being just a star. She dreamt of being an actress. And…
— Lee Strasberg
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She realized how many of her beliefs were either unrealistic or belonged to her deceased parents and her ex-husband. She also realized that her expectations…
— Salle Merrill Redfield
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It was not seen that woman's place was in the home until she began to go out of it; the statement was a reply to…
— Rose Wilder Lane
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No one writes a story like Lydia Davis. In the years since she began publishing her lyrical, extremely short fiction, she has quietly become one…
— Jonathan Messinger
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I think, she began quietly, I think we want... not just bread for our bellies. We want more than only bread. We want food for…
— Katherine Paterson
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It is said that the Christian mystic Theresa of Avila found difficulty at first in reconciling the vastness of the life of the spirit with…
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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She began to feel like the plastic doll she had been named after, without even a hole where her mouth was supposed to be.
— Francesca Lia Block
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For with my intuition I knew that this man was repeating a pattern over and over again: courting a woman with his intelligence and sympathy,…
— Doris Lessing
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She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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You got a job?" "Ignatius hasta help me at home," Mrs. Reilly said. Her initial courage was failing a little, and she began to twist…
— John Kennedy Toole
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He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.
— Leo Tolstoy
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I took her into bed with me and propped myself up with pillows against the headboard to let her nurse. As she nursed and the…
— Wendell Berry
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The Prince found Buttercup waiting unhappily outside his chamber doors. It's my letter,' she began. 'I cannot make it right.' Come in, come in,' the…
— William Goldman
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..she began to stand around the gate and expect things. What things? She didn't know exactly. Her breath was gusty and short. She knew things…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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Mrs. Murdo, walkind even more briskly to keep her spirits up, was crossing Harken Square when something fell to the pavement just in front of…
— Jeanne DuPrau
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The way I see it,†she began, “your mother’s devoted her whole life to you kids.†She said “you kids†in precisely the same tone…
— Jennifer Weiner
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So she listened hard. And she began to evolve, because stories work their magic that way. They build conviction and erode conviction in equal measure.
— Gregory Maguire
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A father's suspicion...' she began. Is as powerful as a mother's intuition.' ~pg 87, Ruana Singh and Jack Salmon
— Alice Sebold
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She turned back to Jace. "Do you have to be so-," she began, but stopped when she saw his face. It looked stripped down, oddly…
— Cassandra Clare
Who Wrote These She Began Quotes
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