Success Quote by Frances Burney

“nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point…

— Jane Austen

“Either the woman was incredibly malleable and naive—or she may have been open to enticement, no matter what she told the authorities. Hers is…

— Gaiutra Bahadur

“There are two women inside Miss Duvall," he said stonily. "There's the one you find in that book, experienced, jaded, greedy... a perverse bitch.…

— Lisa Kleypas

“A startling thought this, that a woman could handle business matters as well or better than a man, a revolutionary thought to Scarlett who…

— Margaret Mitchell

“...she was sensitive enough and intelligent enough to understand, and her literary education could not but have sharpened her perception of the evidence before…

— Chinua Achebe

“She was not an unkind woman, despite a lifetime of being gently dried out on the stove of education, but she was conscientious and…

— Terry Pratchett

“There is nothing so difficult as to persuade men that they are ignorant. Bertha, exaggerating the seriousness of the affair, thought it charlatanry to…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“A true lady is known by her conduct under trying circumstances.”

— Marissa Doyle

“she had fought hotly against injustice, vanity, and blind, towering stupidity. Occasionally, on the battlefield where death was a reality, she had won. But…

— Anne Perry

“Perhaps she would have liked to confide all these things to someone. But how tell an undefinable uneasiness, variable as the clouds, unstable as…

— Gustave Flaubert

“She was a plain-faced old woman, without graces and without any great elegance, but with an extreme respect for her own motives. She was…

— Henry James

“It's rather clever of her to have made a specialty of devoting herself to dull people—the field is such a large one, and she…

— Edith Wharton