Bullying Quote by Francine Pascal

“Elizabeth was happy in her marriage, she really was. It was just that sometimes she thought about all the experiences she’d never gotten to…

— Emma Straub

“No wonder she was so underweight. She was desperate to please a woman that could never be pleased, in the hopes of being loved…

— Rose Wynters

“She'd been a good nurse, and now she'd never be a nurse again. She was bitter about it and had turned herself into the…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

“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

“...she herself loved the character of Elizabeth Bennet. "I must confess that I think her as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print,…

— Carol Shields

“But you have told me," Elizabeth protested, "time and again, that the hallmark of civilization is routine." Lady D shrugged and made a fussy…

— Julia Quinn

“She used to look forward to changing in the locker room when other girls stole shocked glances at her emaciated body last spring. Now…

— Steven Levenkron

She liked things that had been written by people who had lived short, ugly, and tragic lives. Or, who at least, were English.

— Joe Hill

“She wanted to lose herself in the words, in other times and places”

— George R.R. Martin

“She read every author she could get her hands on who wrote a strong female protagonist who triumphed in the end.”

— Wendy Wax

“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