Quote by Edith Wharton

“... She is awesomely competent without being smug. She is determined without being bossy, morally certain without being judgmental. She likes herself but is…

— Dean Koontz

“Her job is not to make herself likeable, her job is to be her full self, a self that is honest and aware of…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Nothing becomes some women more than the prick of ambition. Love, on the contrary, may make them very dull.”

— Françoise Sagan

“She felt like she’d done so much work to appear as eccentric as possible, and still, when it came down to it, she was…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“As she continues to answer questions about her employment, all these words mean little more to her now than I AM SOPHISTICATED, I AM…

— Tania James

“At times she's so basic, at others so wise it frightens me that I got so far in this world without the benefit of…

— Diane Keaton

“She lacks the core of sureness, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on reflections of herself in others' eyes. She does not dare to…

— Anaïs Nin

“Too clever and competent. That is why she has no patience with men.”

— L.M. Montgomery

“She did not yet know the immense ability of the world to be casually cruel and proudly dull,”

— Sinclair Lewis

“She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than…

— Jane Austen

“She wondered if she was alone in having nothing between the dullness of her own days and the sheer brilliance of this imagined life.”

— Colm Tóibín

“She attempts to give the impression of untiring activity, thereby underlining her importance. Meanwhile her colleagues calmly and expertly get on with the job…

— Steven Bach