Found Quote by Elizabeth Kostova

Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.

— Jane Howard

Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark…

— Gloria Steinem

She had always known that all lives are in common, rejoicing in her kinship to the fish in the tanks of her laboratories, seeking…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

In the course of her education she had gone through the history usually put into the hands of young people... now her ripened reason…

— Charlotte Smith

She was an expert at the art of sudden appearance.

— John Irving

“She had a great desire for knowledge, but she really preferred almost any source of information to the printed page; she had an immense…

— Henry James

Anthropology is separated from mass reading, and that is something that bothered Margaret Mead. She always said that she wrote everything for her grandmother,…

— Lily King

Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering,…

— George Eliot

“The knowledge that she was needed by something living, that she could benefit another creature, produce happiness, or contentment, or just a feeling of…

— Connie Brockway

What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us…

— Laurie Lee

“She had witnessed in nauseating detail how the human world worked: its rituals of comfort (television, food, religion); its appetite for poison (television, food,…

— Clive Barker

The world was hers for the reading.

— Betty Smith