Contemporary Quote by Paul Auster

“And thus she made it impossible for me to roll out my sonorous phrases about 'elemental feelings,' the 'common stuff of humanity,' 'depths of…

— Virginia Woolf

“Listen to a woman speak at a public gathering (if she hasn't painfully lost her wind). She doesn't "speak," she throws her trembling body…

— Hélène Cixous

“Her every utterance is clickbait, and according to the headlines, she no longer says anything, but rather “eviscerates.”

— Irin Carmon

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

— George Bernard Shaw

“At times she's so basic, at others so wise it frightens me that I got so far in this world without the benefit of…

— Diane Keaton

She learned to say things with her eyes that others waste time putting into words

— Corey Ford

Where else would she feel more comfortable than in this subterranean realm where people wrote down what they couldn't say, where they gave voice…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

— George Bernard Shaw

One goes to Nature only for hints and half-truths. Her facts are crude until you have absorbed them or translated them ... It is…

— John Burroughs

True wisdom, laboring to expound, heareth others readily; False wisdom, sturdy to deny, closeth up her mind to argument.

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

Her fluency was marvelous. She would say things at random, intricate, flamelike, or slide off into a parenthetical limbo peppered with fireworks-- admirable linguistic…

— Henry Miller

I get that she's a fighter for what she believes in, like her destiny is always on the horizon and she's chasing it with…

— Jennifer Carpenter