Life Quote by Francine Prose

“She was always trying to be what her husband wished, and never able to repose on his delight in what she was.”

— George Eliot

“People made no sense to her. Men, with whom she had everything in common, did not want her around. Women, with whom she had…

— Philipp Meyer

“She’d never been the kind of woman who angered over being told what to do. She’d never felt unequal or demeaned in a submissive…

— Elizabeth SaFleur

“She was after all the kind of woman who would make a man easily uproot his life, the kind who, because she did not…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“But she had learnt, in those solemn hours of thought, that she herself must one day answer for her own life, and what she…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“fact. Of course, she always went and spoiled the appeal by opening her mouth. In his humble experience, the world had yet to produce…

— Gail Carriger

“But she had never known that a man could want a woman and not take her because he did care. There was something very…

— Mary Jo Putney

“She had, she declared, "no patience with women whom I hear telling what wonders they would do if they were only men, when I…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

“There was no use denying anything to a woman, for she would have her way.”

— The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“She tried to live like an ordinary woman, but some women cannot live an ordinary life.”

— Philippa Gregory

“Susannah was glad that, on principle, she rarely listened to men. Rarely believed, really, a word they said. No matter how much she might…

— Alice Walker

“Her tone held a challenge. She did not need his condemnation or what his pity. Once, she had wanted his love, but that time…

— India Drummond