Books Quote by Elizabeth McCracken

“In Berlin, I worked from home, were the only other women sat sedately on my bookshelves. They were good company, it has to be…

— Luisa Weiss

“It seemed any young woman at odds with her place in life--be she a genteel lady or a serving girl--might find a happier home…

— Tessa Dare

“It was piecework, and she was apt to have a family to keep alive; and stern and ruthless economic laws had arranged it that…

— Upton Sinclair

“How could you be alone, when you can find company in reading books?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“If, as would sometimes happen, she had the appearance of some woman whom I had known in waking hours, I would abandon myself altogether…

— Marcel Proust

“I enjoy books. No room is fit for occupation without a lining of books.”

— Martin Booth

“They were women then My mama's generation Husky of voice stout of Step With fists as well as Hands How they battered down Doors…

— Alice Walker

“Each writer had a bedroom in the main house and a shack or “work cottage” in which to write. We all met up for…

— Harlan Coben

“I never thought deeply about the women folks all those while. Now I know they are really a bundle of blessing to men, especially…

— Peter Muzo Godwin

“...the townhouses looked bedraggled, unkempt, like an old homeless woman with an interesting history but a perilous future.”

— Sharon Shinn

“They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?”

— Gabrielle Zevin

“As I’d worked at my job and traveled and read and lived my life, I’d also decided that a woman is meant to be…

— Anu Partanen