Bookworms Quote by Eileen Favorite Download Open image “For a bookworm like Mother, a Brontë novel sister was better than a biological one.” — Eileen Favorite ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bookworms Mother Novel Parenting Reading Sister
“The Brontë sisters have a renewed hold upon our imagination. They were gifted, well-educated, especially self-educated, and desperate. Their seriousness and poverty separated them forever from the interests and follies of respectable young girls. It was Charlotte’s goal to represent the plight of plain, poor, high-minded young women. Sometimes she gave them more rectitude and right thinking than we can… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share
It's hard to imagine what the Bronte sisters' lives would've been like had they been men. Different things would've been expected of them, and… — Chloe Pirrie Copy Share Image
“Reread that Bronte book all you want, but Jane Eyre's never going to get gender-reassignment surgery or train to become a kick-ass ninja assassin.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Charlotte Bronte borrowed liberally and sloppily from Joseph Sheridan le Fanu when penning Jane Eyre. The originality of this classic novel is tarnished as… — Andrew Barger Copy Share Image
But the cinephile is … a neurotic! (That’s not a pejorative term.) The Bronte sisters were neurotic, and it’s because they were neurotic that… — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture. — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
“I was reading Charlotte Bronte, and Jane was being serenaded by Mr. Rochester. (I see the source of all my problems: a Bronte was… — Zen Cho Copy Share Image
“One could not but play for a moment with the thought of what might have happened if Charlotte Brontë had possessed say three hundred… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I would argue, for perspective's sake, that the arc of a really literary work is precisely that it both intensely reflects, and simultaneously transcends… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
“Besides, she had survived the searingly hot nights, when sleep was rendered impossible, by reading a miasma of English novels by Jane Austen and… — Lucinda Riley Copy Share Image
Charlotte Bronte was writing about sex. I supposed Jane Austen was, too. Where do you get a hero like Darcy unless you are writing… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“C'mon. I'll show you." "Thou speakest strange!" Pearl said. "So do thou!" I said. "Thee!" "Thou!" I said.” — Eileen Favorite Copy Share Image
When I was in my 20s, I was a bookworm - spent 12 hours of the day in the library. How I met George,… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
Unlike many graduate fellowships, the Rhodes seeks leaders who will 'fight the world's fight.' They must be more than mere bookworms. We are looking… — Heather Wilson Copy Share Image
I think the part I enjoy most is reading the scripts and screening films because I'm a bookworm and a movie buff. — Rebecca Eaton Copy Share Image
I want a human sermon. I don't care what Melchisedek, or Zerubbabel, or Kerenhappuk did, ages ago; I want to know what I am… — Fanny Fern Copy Share Image
Certain bookworms eat books. Eat them, swear in them, spill things on them. — Tara Bray Smith Copy Share Image
For the true bookworm it is sometimes hard to distinguish between what one has experienced and what one has read. We know that this… — Laura Furman Copy Share Image
Anyways, I am a nerd, bookworm, geek... whatever you want to call me. I'm the type of person that would rather sit down and… — Jacqueline Emerson Copy Share Image
A friend once told me that the real message Bram Stoker sought to convey in 'Dracula' is that a human being needs to live… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such; not as related to nature and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I was a bookworm, and very skinny with big, thick glasses. I never went on dates and guys were afraid of me because I… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
