Quote by D.L. Carter

“She had some kind of foolish and unreasonable notion that the more doggedly she stood, the more would she placate certain mysterious powers which…

— Cora Sandel

“Throughout her life, she behaved as if she had never heard anyone suggest that a woman couldn't do entirely as she pleased.”

— Francine Prose

“She was one of those women of good family who no longer exist, elegant, distinguished, and haughty, whose pallor and thinness seem to say,…

— Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

“remind me that woman must be still as the axis of a wheel in the midst of her activities; that she must be the…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“She has simply never quite learned to walk or hold herself comfortably, which makes her come off as an attractive wallflower.”

— Steve Martin

“Honestly, of all the unnecessary things her mother had taught her in the last eighteen years, she couldn’t have found two minutes to say,…

— Kristi Ann Hunter

“The woman had practiced patience all the long days of her life, exercised it to such an extent it had become the strongest muscle…

— Lyman Hafen

“She has simply never quite learned to walk or hold herself comfortably”

— Steve Martin

“A woman must be able to stand in the face of power, because ultimately some part of that power will become hers.”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

“She knew the power of bureaucracy well enough to be aware she had to sit and be admonished until this stranger felt she had…

— Thomm Quackenbush

“She knew her own worth. She would seize her destiny with all the strength and spirit within her, and bend them all to her…

— Julie C. Dao

“She would not be robbed of her ability to support herself, to do good work in the world, justly, compassionately.”

— Marge Piercy