Railway Track Quote by Jane Yolen

“She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might object. To…

— Ayn Rand

“...of the few young men and boys at the fort, now that she was too old for racing and climbing trees with them, she…

— Elizabeth George Speare

“No one would ever find her here. Even from the high saddle there was no sign of the way she'd come, no path, no…

— Kirsty Gunn

“There was something different about her, though I could not say exactly what it was. It was as if she were more certain. If…

— Tracy Chevalier

“But that any other eyes should see the residue of her thirty-three years, the deposit of each day’s living mixed with something more secret…

— Virginia Woolf

“It was only in an urban landscape, amid straight lines and architecture, that she could situate herself in human time and history.”

— Ruth Ozeki

“When you hear her say, 'What else can an old woman do on hills as wretched as these?' You look right at the sky,…

— Arun Kolatkar

“She was thirty-two, but drew blank on various periods of her life. In her own peculiar turn of phrase, they were like holes in…

— Fuminori Nakamura

“The lines in her face were deep enough to hide gravel in.”

— Dennis Lehane

“I watched women—thin, spare, alone-looking women who were older than me, always carrying parcels, bags, overstuffed leather purses. The light did something to their…

— Sara Majka

“Did the rhythm of the train on the tracks somehow unravel her and make her behave out of character? Was she altered in transit,…

— John Irving

“She was old; millions of years old, she felt. And at last, she could bear the burden of herself no more.”

— D.H. Lawrence