Quote by Edgar Allen Poe

“Could any State on Earth Immortall be, Venice by Her rare Goverment is She; Venice Great Neptunes Minion, still a Mayd, Though by the…

— James Howell

“Venus of Willendorf carries her cave with her. She is blind, masked. Her ropes of corn-row hair look forward to the invention agriculture. She…

— Camille Paglia

“She is a mortal danger to all men. She is beautiful without knowing it, and possesses charms that she's not even aware of. She…

— Christine Zolendz

“Here was the world-famous novelist with her penchant for detail; yet, in her observations of a prostitute with a customer, she had failed to…

— John Irving

“She [Madame Duvall] seems desirious to repair the wrongs she has done, yet wishes the world to believe her blameless.”

— Fanny Burney

“How explain to him that she, who had been lapped like a lily in folds of paduasoy, had hacked heads off, and lain with…

— Virginia Woolf

“presumed that the reader was as fascinated by her life as she was - which was a deadly mistake. The other deadly mistakes she…

— Charles Bukowski

“She carried herself like a queen,: gracefully, regal, and dignified. She was all woman and every inch a lady, and he had never seen…

— Elaine Coffman

“The Abbe Paul looked at Agnes rather as Alain had, with respect. 'How sensible. People are desperate to probe mysteries which for the most…

— Salley Vickers

“What arguments, what persuasions can I make use of, with any prospect of success, to such a woman as Madame Duval? ...She is too…

— Frances Burney

“His thoughts became as scattered and aimless as the rivulets sluicing down her lush curves. She was a goddess rising from the water. Like…

— Kerrigan Byrne

“Then Diana puts too many murders into [her stories]. She says most of the time she doesn’t know what to do with the people…

— L.M. Montgomery