Esteem Quote by Francine Pascal

“Elizabeth feared that because of her looks, she was doomed to meet men with unreasonably high self-images and no depth, the kind that dogged…

— Naomi Ragen

“Rebecca saw red.The urge she had to fly at Elizabeth with her nails bared was too compelling. She couldn't resist it. That Elizabeth immediately…

— Johanna Lindsey

“Elizabeth was excessively disappointed...but it was her business to be satisfied — and certainly her temper to be happy; and all was soon right…

— Jane Austen

“The most frightening blazing anger was alive in her now. It was not only Elizabeth that she could have killed but Ross. She could…

— Winston Graham

Elizabeth is smart, ruthless, and emotionally damaged ... [i]f Elizabeth's brain was a person, it would have scars, tattoos, and be missing one eye.

— Max Barry

“Go to hell," she snapped, hating how he made her lose her cool elegance. "Already been, my dear. The service was not up to…

— Charlotte Featherstone

“Elizabeth could never address her without feeling that all the comfort of intimacy was over, and, though determined not to slacken as a correspondent,…

— Jane Austen

Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she…

— Jane Austen

“couldn’t change her life if all of the people in it saw her a certain way.”

— Susan Gloss

“Things would have been terribly strange and unbalanced without her. She was the Queen who finished out the suit of dark Jacks, dark King,…

— Donna Tartt

“She refused to be one of those girls who fell for a pretty face that just white-washed a total jack-ass underneath. She could ogle,…

— Kimberly Kinrade

“Had Elizabeth's opinion been all drawn from her own family, she could not have formed a very pleasing picture of conjugal felicity or domestic…

— Jane Austen