18th birthday Quote by E. Jean Carroll

If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her eighteenth birthday, you can get out of bed.

— E. Jean Carroll

“I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well. And besides, it furnished…

— Mark Twain

“Joan of Arc said a lot of interesting things before they burned her at the stake.”

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“Orleans . . . the place where Joan of Arc, while depending on God, had defeated the British in a great battle for freedom.…

— Nancy Moser

“Sometimes I wondered if I had made Joan up. Other times I wondered if she would continue to pop in at every crisis of…

— Sylvia Plath

“I used to pinch those pages closed when I read the book to keep from having to see Joan [of Arc] fail. But now…

— Madeleine George

“When empires fall, what becomes of the Queen? Everything will burn, and so will she.”

— Katie Jennings

“She had always assumed that her life would end inside the war, that the war itself would be her eternal present, as it was…

— Tatjana Soli

“She was a soldier, a warrior in her way as much as I. This could have happened two hundred times these past twenty years.…

— Robert Jordan

“War is no strife To the dark house and the detested wife.”

— william shakespeare

“To be young and in love. Isn’t it remarkable that something like that can happen in the middle of a war? It says something…

— Mark T. Sullivan

“Joan thinks then that writers have infinite choices and mothers nearly no choice at all.”

— Cherise Wolas