Beacons Quote by Marietta Holley

“This is a book about women. This is a book about girls who had a ton of fear and personal flaws and faced insurmountable…

— Ann Shen

“I wrote this book to inspire young women to be brave and believe in themselves.”

— Sherine Calloway

“Novels expose man to the nuances of life through the thought process of their protagonists to form the foundation for its understanding and thus…

— B.S. Murthy

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.

— Jeremy Collier

“The pleasure of this sort of life-bookish, she supposed it might be called, a reading life- had made her isolation into a rich and…

— Louise Erdrich

“The books we read help to shape who we are. Reading offers us, as children, our first independence- allowing us to travel far beyond…

— Ben Jacobs

“I feel I owe it to the women that their stories should be told fully by us—the descendants and heirs to their very real…

— Philippa Gregory

“There are things written concerning you in the book of life; that you need to keep opening, till you discover them and keep opening…

— ANIKOR Daniel

“The book presents a broad world of women coming from all eras, countries, backgrounds, races, and ethnicities. They’re rabble-rousers from all sorts of disciplines:…

— Ann Shen

“When I first thought about writing this book, I conceived of it as a book about moods, and an illness of moods, in the…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“On Writing About Nora Hawks I write about a female character to try, in vain, to understand two things: the purpose of life, and…

— Dennis R. Miller

“Have you ever dared to imagine what life could be like … if we used our skills to transform conflict, to clean up the environment, and…

— Scilla Elworthy