Able Quote by Flannery O'Connor

“there’s a single phrase to describe Sister Simone, it is “compassionate conviction.” With bravery, with courage, with optimism, she is focused on the common…

— Sister Simone Campbell

My teachers always said, "You're very talented, but don't set your heart on art. You're only a girl." I was inspired by Virginia Woolf…

— Carolee Schneemann

“She who can paint a masterpiece or write a book that will influence millions deserves the plaudits and admiration of mankind. But she who…

— David O. McKay

I write to music, and Nina Simone is always on my playlist to write to. I mean, shes inspiring. She's truthful and real and…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

“Joan Ashby is one of our most astonishing writers, a master of words whose profound characters slip free of the page...”

— Cherise Wolas

I think Nina Simone has had an amazing journey. She was spicy and she had attitude and she didn't care, she wanted her money…

— Nia Long

She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.

— Graham Greene

“Imaginatively she is of the highest importance; practically she is completely insignificant. She pervades poetry from cover to cover; she is all but absent…

— Virginia Woolf

I felt more connected to Gabrielle Chanel's story than I expected to. Her avant-garde leanings, her eclectic background, what a modern free-thinking woman she…

— Taylor Russell

“what she did during her lifetime but in the meaning of her life, the inspiration she gave to others, particularly women, to search for…

— Andrew Morton

“She was lionized, canonized, Nobel Prized (and was wonderfully inspirational, as disinterested in acclaim as in her ostracism, working until her nineties).”

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired,…

— Jeff Shinabarger