Quote by Jane Austen

“Nor could she help feeling, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point…

— Jane Austen

“She had learned that when people were bent on doing something they believed was a good deed, it was usually impossible to dissuade them.”

— Celeste Ng

When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused…nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists…

— Jane Austen

“Challenging her brain was something that fed her passion. Having her beliefs questioned fired her up, made her really dig for what she believed…

— Sierra Cartwright

“She had her own opinions on every subject, and kept steadily to them--very tiresome opinions they often were; as she was always thinking of…

— Emily Brontë

“people found off-putting. You could not beat her at chess or Trivial Pursuit or even Monopoly. She knew all the questions on Jeopardy. She…

— Karin Slaughter

“She didn’t just preach and cuss and demand. She showed me what was possible—a peaceful Sunday afternoon with the people I loved—and made sure…

— J.D. Vance

“And therein lay the crux of her problem. She didn’t trust God to direct her steps. When trouble loomed, she altered her course, convincing…

— Karen Witemeyer

“She considered herself too smart to believe in things she had no evidence for, and that behaved in ways that violated every principle she’d…

— Lev Grossman

“Without any display of doing more than the rest, or any fear of doing too much, he was always true to her interests and…

— Jane Austen

“She had a very traditional Catholic upbringing and that didn't deter her. On the contrary it strengthened her determination to be true to herself,…

— Diane Ackerman

“I suspected those people were seeking to make sense of the world by turning her into a cautionary tale, the lesson being, look both…

— Stacey Kade