Italy Quote by James Carroll

“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

“This was home: running along a razor's edge of self-induced terror, calculating mortality against probability. Assignments were the reprieve. When she was abroad, although…

— Taylor Stevens

“She’d discovered the beginnings of her adult person, her preference for lucidity, prudence, responsibility, and restraint. Tranquility could be eked from boredom, results from…

— V.S. Kemanis

“It required a strong effort to abstract her thoughts from other interests sufficiently to attend to this, but she was rewarded for her exertions…

— Ann Radcliffe

“As would be the case all through her life, she had a store of nervous energy, unavailable at ordinary times but able to serve…

— Winston Graham

“She would not be robbed of her ability to support herself, to do good work in the world, justly, compassionately.”

— Marge Piercy

“She was a grown-up, divorced woman now, on her own. She'd gotten herself this far, she could get herself around Italy too.”

— Carol Grace

“and that she had shown marked abilities in that direction, so that many people began to say that she was no better than a…

— Anton Chekhov

“She decided to donate blood to the Red Cross; she wanted to donate a quart a week and her blood would be in the…

— Carson McCullers

“It was only in the first few years that she felt herself screaming silently, at times, for a glimpse of human ability, a single…

— Ayn Rand

“Looking back over nearly a quarter of a century, she saw that that had been the characteristic of her life -passivity, adaptability to others.”

— Doris Lessing

“It was a compound of self-reliance, hard knocks, heart hunger, unceasing work, and generosity. There was no form of suffering with which the girl…

— Gene Stratton Porter