Able Quote by Harper Lee

“Caroline, or Sister Carrie, as she had been half affectionately termed by the family, was possessed of a mind rudimentary in its power of…

— Theodore Dreiser

“She read all sorts of things: travels, and sermons, and old magazines. Nothing was so dull that she couldn't get through with it. Anything…

— Susan Coolidge

I would say what was always on her[Harper Lee] mind was the stories she had to tell, and the story was pretty obvious in…

— Wayne Flynt

“Caroline had felt more comfortable thinking of beauty as something separate from her, like a scarf or a coat you could check before going…

— Erica Bauermeister

Nancy Drew was always changing her outfits. I despised girls' clothing, I couldn't wait to get home from school and get out of it.…

— Alison Bechdel

“Louise Wolcott slipped out of her granddaughters’ lives as easily as she had slipped into them, becoming a distant name that sent birthday cards…

— Seanan McGuire

“But if Miss Golightly remained unconscious of my existence, except as a doorbell convenience, I became, through the summer, rather an authority on hers.…

— Truman Capote

“She knew she was a purveyor of costume, of disguise, a fabricator of persona, one who touched only the protective surface, never the skin,…

— Jane Urquhart

“We were supposed to be an English literature class, but Miss Nesbitt used literature to teach real life. She said she didn't have time…

— Phillip Hoose

The thought that, insignificant as she was, she yet might do some good, made her very careful of her acts and words, and so…

— Louisa May Alcott

“Nancy had neither seen nor heard of girls who dressed as boys and could think of no documentation on the topic through all her…

— Jenny Nordberg

“In April 2012, The New York Times published a heart-wrenching essay by Claire Needell Hollander, a middle school English teacher in the New York…

— Michael Sokolove