Time Quote by Jane Austen

“two elder sisters. In society so superior to what she had generally known, her improvement was great. She was not of so ungovernable a…

— Jane Austen

“two elder sisters. In society so superior to what she had generally known, her improvement was great. She was not of so ungovernable a…

— Jane Austen

“Whenever she saw in others an advantage, however trivial, which she herself lacked, she would persuade herself that it was no advantage at all,…

— Marcel Proust

“...it seemed a part of her life, to step from the ancient to the modern, back and forth. She felt rather sorry for those…

— Orson Scott Card

“Who was she, what was she that she should hold herself superior? What view of life, what design upon fate, what conception of happiness,…

— Henry James

“Indeed, she had started to wonder if her blessings might be in her daughters and their progeny rather than in her sons. There was…

— Elizabeth Chadwick

“when she was a young woman she valued intelligence over all other human attributes. Now that she was older she valued kindness.”

— Nevada Barr

“She was a woman who conquered herself so that she could serve others.”

— Tilda Shalof

“I thought her looking as she always does: superior in all respects to everyone around her”

— Charles Dickens

“To her, all women, including her two sisters, were natural enemies in pursuit of the same prey--man.”

— Margaret Mitchell

“Some far day when she had become a better person and could feel something besides stinging anger that her beautiful, gentle sister had not…

— Charles Frazier

“most of all, she’d learned that she had to rely on herself. Certainly her father and her sister couldn’t be counted on.”

— Kristin Hannah