Giving Quote by Elizabeth Gaskell

She keeps on hoping from a word from Penelope, but not in any strenuous way. She hopes as people who know better hope for…

— Alice Munro

“You know what 'Dolores' means? It's Latin, means sadness. Our Lady of Sorrow. Why are you so sad?”

— Wally Lamb

I hope that people will be inspired by Madam Walker's story. I hope that they will see her as a complex human being, and…

— A'Lelia Bundles

Back then, when I had that original idea to write about the seventeenth century, the whole thing was set in 1666. I was thinking…

— Danielle Dutton

How deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"Margaret" was just my truth. It was what I knew to be true about sixth grade.

— Judy Blume

I got to a point where I referred to myself as Dolores of the Cranberries instead of myself because I alienated my real self…

— Dolores O'Riordan

And her life will perhaps be the richer, for holding now within it the memory of what came, but could not stay.

— George MacDonald

It has been a woman's task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope.

— Margaret Mead

She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and…

— Jane Austen

“Margaret described an oppressive awareness that “I have no real hold on life,—no real, permanent connection with any soul.” She felt disembodied, like “a…

— Megan Marshall

[Princess Margaret] was always trying to radicalize things.

— Vanessa Kirby