Life Quote by Christina Stead

“And of course there was no help for it, except recalling bits of conversations she had overheard from time to time about marriage. That’s…

— Jane Smiley

“Because she couldn't knit she just crocheted”

— Sandra M. Gilbert

“It’s just a part of her life. Sewing her world back together again, sometimes even daily.”

— Julie Anne Long

“...the one woman who had stood conspicuous, knitting, still knitted on with the steadfastness of Fate.”

— Charles Dickens

“A week later, I was struggling through a scarf. I made a mess of it, randomly adding stitches, dropping stitches, then adding even more.…

— Kathryn Vercillo

“She could feel her mind pulling loose like knitting, the neat stitches of her artificial days unravelling to become one mangled thread.”

— Frances Hardinge

“She was always trying to be what her husband wished, and never able to repose on his delight in what she was.”

— George Eliot

“It's much easier than I thought it would be." Most things in knitting are, really.”

— Gil McNeil

“I know she is going on vacation, so I knitted her a sweater. It matches the bathing suit I knitted her, and it’s as…

— Jarod Kintz

“Knitting is not enough.”

— Miles Franklin

“Then the maiden climbed into a tree, and, seating herself in the branches, began to knit.”

— Hamilton Wright Mabie

“But, with unintelligible nostalgia for a life she had never lived, knew that all would have been subtly and profoundly different had her husband…

— Shirley Hazzard