Quote by Marcel Proust

“She was beholden to no man, held her tongue for none, she would stand before the gods themselves and inform them of what they…

— A. H. Septimius

“The blessing was an empty ritual, she knew, but rituals and ceremonies had power in the eyes of the ignorant.”

— George R.R. Martin

“she delighted in being of the same substance as them, and in knowing that when she died her flesh would nourish other lives as…

— Phillip Pullman

“She would not have cared to confess how infinitely she preferred the exactitude, the star-like impersonality, of figures to the confusion, agitation, and vagueness…

— Virginia Woolf

“Throughout her life, she behaved as if she had never heard anyone suggest that a woman couldn't do entirely as she pleased.”

— Francine Prose

“And there rose in her an unmastering desire to overcome her; to unmask her. If she could have felled her it would have eased…

— Virginia Woolf

“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

“She was never overcome by drabness or squalor. She never glamorized anything; yet she saw the loveliness in everything.”

— Caroline Fraser

“And ’tis most evident and plain that simple Nature is the most harmless, inoffensive, and virtuous mistress. ’Tis she alone, if she were permitted,…

— Aphra Behn

“Still, for all that, her life had lacked passion. The demons had never come for her.”

— Paul Russell

“These were her rituals, the rutines that made her feel alive and connected. Without them, where would she be? Lost”

— Ben Sherwood

“...she had grown up highly ornamental, but perfectly helpless and useless.”

— Charles Dickens