Dwelling Quote by Henry Ward Beecher

“A half-equipped little knight she was, venturing to reconnoiter the mysterious city and dreaming wild dreams of some vague, far-off supremacy, which should make…

— Theodore Dreiser

“The strong and strange thing—that which moves on its way as do birth and death, and the rising and setting of the sun—had begun…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Who would want to enter the soiled Temple of Justice, wherein lies the corpse of justice, slain by her very guardians? And now her…

— Rohinton Mistry

“She was an old-fashioned woman. She had the calm of frequentation; she belonged to this house and it to her. Though she was a…

— Christina Stead

“Harness the imagination: Sometimes curbing her, sometimes giving her rein, for she is the whole of happiness. She sets to rights even the understanding.…

— Baltasar Gracián

“That 'creature,' that 'woman of loose behaviour' is perhaps holier than you are yourselves, you monks who are seeking salvation! She fell perhaps in…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Within this enclosed women's world, so to say, behind the walls and fortifications of it, I felt the presence of a great ideal, without…

— Karen Blixen

“All over the ancient world populations were now set against populations, as men were set against women and against other men. Wandering over the…

— Riane Eisler

“She stood watching a ritual she had seen many times before, yet which now seemed odd and extremely archaic; as if everything - the…

— stephen r. lawhead

“Such a captive maiden, having plenty of time to think, soon realizes that her tower, its height and architecture, are like her ego only…

— Thomas Pynchon

All virtuous women, like tortoises, carry their house on their heads, and their chappel in their heart, and their danger in their eye, and…

— Jeremy Taylor

“From deep quiet gorges and wilderness of the holy mountain came to her wonderful, like silver mist, dreams and silently whispered into her ears…

— Osyp Nazaruk