History Quote by M.R. Forbes

“She was not willing to let others narrate her life and her death. While there is one person like her in this world, I…

— Ariel Dorfman

“I never think of myself as an attacker, only as a defender - usually of rights - mine and others.”

— Jay Woodman

“Lady, I have never been a hero, no Ryam Redwyne or Barristan the Bold. I've won no tourneys, no renown in war... but I…

— George R.R. Martin

“She was the kind of woman who made a sport of finding fault with other people; her favorite target being me. I wasn’t good…

— Clara James

“What she was doing, what she had just done, was for her not about frivolity, it was about the essential, about being human, living…

— Mohsin Hamid

“Affronts to her reputation pierced her to the heart, though I couldn’t understand why, since she had very little character left to defend.”

— Melika Dannese Lux

“It was one thing to talk about being by yourself, doing important things, but quite another when the opportunity arose. The characters in the…

— Natalie Babbitt

“There were other times when she was so shattered by ideas that she could do nothing worth while; when they trampled over her like…

— Willa Cather

“She was the promise of youth, of being fearless...of being alive. She was everything I couldn't have and shouldn't want, but the more she…

— Ella Frank

“I've done nothing for the past five years but try to be the hero who protects her. The problem? Heroines don't need protecting.”

— Colleen Hoover

“More than anything else I wanted to get inside my readers’ defenses, wanted to rip them and ravish them and change them forever with…

— Stephen King

“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