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“This would be the way to Fanny's heart. She was not to be won by all that gallantry and wit and good-nature together could…

— Jane Austen

“She wanted to ask about his late wife and the mistress he kept in London, to inquire about his reason for going to war.…

— Sophie Barnes

“Oh I daresay she can't help it - she's one of the women who oughn't be loved too kindly when they are some primitive…

— Dodie Smith

“She was like a bride-to-be who begins to feel her sickening qualms as the day approaches, and dares not speak her mind because so…

— Ian McEwan

“To lead a life so wholly happy, so wholly unexamined that she could be dying, could be betrayed, could be besieged on all sides…

— Paullina Simons

“She was intensely sympathetic. She was immensely charming. She was utterly unselfish. She excelled in the difficult arts if family life. She sacrificed herself…

— Virginia Woolf

“Charity, till then, had been conscious only of a vague self-disgust and a frightening physical distress; now, of a sudden, there came to her…

— Edith Wharton

“To be a woman is fated vehemently morbid.”

— Avah Marie

“I've always had a thing for Carmyn Rafferty. She carries herself as a reserved and proper woman, but I see a tension in her.…

— Angeline Kace

“Great, the English had sent her to her death accompanied by two village idiots. Not that it mattered anymore how her life ended, but…

— E.B. Brown

“He could not admire her destructive loyalty to her brother. But it was born of the steel at her core. As a girl, she…

— Meredith Duran

“She was terribly pleased, because she had always, secretly, deep within her heart, believed that she could fly. And now here she was, doing…

— Kate DiCamillo