Family Quote by George Eliot

“she never even wore stockings; just those bullet proof tights that you see on old maids.”

— Poppet

“She pushed open the door to the restaurant. More lunchtime bustle, mostly women in hats with their coats thrown over the backs of chairs,…

— Alice McDermott

“She pouted prettily, and he wondered if that was one of the things they taught wealthy young girls at schools like Miss Porter's. If…

— Kristin Hannah

“She was the cook, the hostess, the comforter, and the keeper of all the mysterious secrets for how to do just about everything.”

— S. Kelley Harrell

“She knew she had become the strange sort of lady that she remembered noticing as a child, the sort of lady who was always…

— Jane Smiley

“She did not understand why women complicated their lives with corsets and petticoats, so she sewed herself a coarse cassock that she simply put…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“Years later when she was being eccentric, had shed her corset and let her arse spread unhindered by anything but her perpetual dressing gown.”

— Peter Carey

“She was reserved and cold, as if having been stolen from her native village in a burlap sack and made to be servant and…

— Ben H. Winters

“Her new friends especially liked the southern phrases she recalled from her childhood, such as her father's remark that 'if I hadn't sold that…

— Sherill Tippins

“She was dressing for the life she wanted, not the one she had.”

— Anonymous

“He wanted to bend her over the dining table and ravish her. Or the desk, or one of the twenty beds, or any piece…

— Maya Rodale

“She was one of those invalids who has to lie down a lot, and sometimes can't lift a bread knife, but can shift a…

— Lynne Truss