Success Quote by Debbie Cowens

“She wasn't vapid or brainless, she wasn't constrained by societal pressures, she wasn't broken by her childhood despite her violent father, and she was…

— Serena Lindahl

“Her features were exquisite perfection, carved by nature with obvious care and never altered by the harshness of life.”

— Lorraine Heath

“...she had grown up highly ornamental, but perfectly helpless and useless.”

— Charles Dickens

“She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies. Men looked at her and wanted to fill her up with babies…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“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 no longer a child, to be cowed or forced into submission, but a grown woman with a definite purpose and an invincible…

— Kamala Markandaya

“Incessantly, it seemed, life plagued her with responsibilities, made her fall in love, ripped away any consolation she might find. Sisters and parents, brothers…

— Meg Rosoff

“She secretly regarded her children as marvellous, even while she laughed down their youthful conceit and punished their naughtiness.”

— Kathleen Thompson Norris

“The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She had never lived. Even…

— Han Kang

“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

“She mourns the stillbirth of anything that craves to be born. It doesn't have to be a child. It can be an artwork, an…

— Tor Udall

“She was very fond of thinking and getting at the truth of things, but was so far from being pedantic, so full of youthful…

— Feodor Dostoevsky