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“I doubt not that some shall think this woman too slight a thing to be written of and set among the remembrances of great…

— Marjorie Bowen

“Mrs. Jennings wrote to tell the wonderful tale, to vent her honest indignation against the jilting girl, and pour forth her compassion towards poor…

— Jane Austen

“The paper detritus that she had somewhere read, or had heard it said, trails armies, or was it (she had seen a photograph) the…

— Alice McDermott

“She was a soldier, a warrior in her way as much as I. This could have happened two hundred times these past twenty years.…

— Robert Jordan

“She soon decided that she disliked the south, everything except for the humongous manor house. She did adore that. And perhaps, maybe Warren, since…

— Lynn Hubbard

“If Miss Beresford had not been in such a hurry to marry a poor country clergyman, there was no knowing what she might not…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“She knew that Virginia's survey of the world was limited to people, the clothes they wore, and the carriages they drove in. Her own…

— Edith Wharton

“She wanted to ask about his late wife and the mistress he kept in London, to inquire about his reason for going to war.…

— Sophie Barnes

“Remember that you're far back in the procession; remember that a whole army corps has laid siege to her, that she's been laid waste,…

— Henry Miller

“Somewhere in your nursery rhymes,” Cranleigh said, intruding yet again, “you must have learned that men do talk. They compare. They judge. They even,…

— Claudia Dain

“Martha Washington was terrified of battlefields, yet she spent fully half of the American Revolution with her husband George, a courageous act that has…

— Steven L. Harrison

“Sara, who snatched her lessons at all sorts of untimely hours from tattered and discarded books, and who had a hungry craving for everything…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett