Quote by D. H. Lawrence

“She was nothing in particular. But at least she had a purpose.”

— Scott Westerfeld

“She was so elaborately and ostentatiously a female body that she seemed scarcely to be a human being.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“She was a virgin and a warrior, disdainful of the male, which was what eventually convinced people that she really must be off her…

— Émile Zola

“Sometimes she despaired at other women - their feebleness, their triviality, the nonsense they absorbed. So many were like little doe-eyed deer waiting to…

— Dave Franklin

“Maybe she had some sort of extraordinary quality, secret even to her. Maybe she did have the power to alter the things she'd always…

— Anna North

“Maybe it frightened them, to admit that a woman could be master of her fate.”

— Nenia Campbell

“She was a woman, a traitor, and a killer. Males and females wanted her. But I was the only one who ever could have…

— Denis Johnson

“It was a terror of the strange, of what was mysterious and unknown in her new world. And to think that all of it…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“There was some new quiet in her, but it didn't shrink or wilt her. Rather, it seemed to enlarge her. She was no mere…

— Laini Taylor

“She was infuriating and intriguing. She was maddening and mysterious. He wanted to know her, and he wanted nothing to do with her.”

— Staci Hart

“I needed to protect her from this - and from herself.”

— Richelle Mead

“She was convinced that women were as often victims of themselves as they were of men.”

— John Irving