Long time Quote by Claire Messud

“I pity, approve, respect, admire her, but I neither desire her company, nor am greatly concerned about her destiny, and she makes me impatient…

— A.C. Bradley

“whenever she felt besieged by doubts, she would think of herself as standing valiantly alone, as almost heroic, so as to squash her uncertainty.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“I observed the woman I had been up until then: weak but trying to give the impression of strength. Fearful of everything but telling…

— Paulo Coelho

“She believed that people revealed themselves most when they were vaguely anxious, and few things brought out nonspecific anxieties like being in the presence…

— Orson Scott Card

“Had she been too hard on her as a girl? Was that why she’d grown up so fearful, somehow, so reluctant to make her…

— Maggie O'Farrell

“She was poised and sympathetic, like a girl who'd just come from the future but didn't want to brag about it.”

— Helen Oyeyemi

“You could see that her tremendous inside life, its solitary fears and fires, was out of accord with her humble view of herself; to…

— Elizabeth Bowen

“Even in her casual white shirt and cotton pants, she was clearly an independent woman in charge of her destiny. She was so… He…

— Jan Moran

“It was only in the first few years that she felt herself screaming silently, at times, for a glimpse of human ability, a single…

— Ayn Rand

“She was jealous, insecure, worried and questioning her position in her life.”

— Nako

“Living, now, had become not simple existence that one took for granted, but a bonus, a gift, with every day that lay ahead an…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

“...She looked at the people around her and felt not just that she was surrounded by strangers, but that she herself was strange, somehow,…

— Daphne Kalotay