Achievements-success Quote by Colleen Smith-Dennis

“It was a compound of self-reliance, hard knocks, heart hunger, unceasing work, and generosity. There was no form of suffering with which the girl…

— Gene Stratton Porter

“She was emotionally retarded having no sense of humour, cold and no people skills. She was like her mother was obsessed by appearances and…

— Annette J Dunlea

“She lacked the sheen of money, muscular good health, good skin, good clothes.”

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

“She needed a world without so many standards and restrictions and expectations–one more friendly to a girl who thought differently from other people.”

— Cinda Williams Chima

“She wanted to get some personal profit out of things, and she rejected as useless all that did not contribute to the immediate desires…

— Gustave Flaubert

“A part of her wanted to stop pushing herself, stop feeling compelled to rise to the occasion of being her best self. She wanted…

— Katherine Morgan Schafler

“Things were not so simple after all. She could not understand even her own feelings. She saw the most cherished of her convictions put…

— Virginia Woolf

“She grew into a quiet, beautiful young woman. The beauty was a nuisance, like smog and poverty.”

— John Varley

“I would not send a poor girl into the world, unarmed against her foes, and ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor…

— Anne Brontë

“She had reached the age of seventeen, without having seen one amiable youth who could call forth her sensibility, without having inspired one real…

— Jane Austen

“What she was doing, what she had just done, was for her not about frivolity, it was about the essential, about being human, living…

— Mohsin Hamid