Quote by Philippa Ballantine

“Next morning on her way to the factory Liza came up with Sally. They were both of them rather stale and bedraggled after the…

— William Somerset Maugham

“The men in the room were shouting, some fleeing for the safety of pillars and the exit while others rushed at her, weapons drawn.…

— Sarah J. Maas

“Years later when she was being eccentric, had shed her corset and let her arse spread unhindered by anything but her perpetual dressing gown.”

— Peter Carey

“September put her hand on the grip of the Rivet Gun. She’d only just gotten it, and she’d promised to take copious notes for…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“She was no mere weapon as she was trained to be, but a woman in full command of her power, unbowed and unbroken, and…

— Laini Taylor

“She did not understand why women complicated their lives with corsets and petticoats, so she sewed herself a coarse cassock that she simply put…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“There was some new quiet in her, but it didn't shrink or wilt her. Rather, it seemed to enlarge her. She was no mere…

— Laini Taylor

“though her hands were still cuffed in front of her. She found the poker, the only weapon in the room, then once it was…

— Lisa Jackson

“There was no action she could take against the men of undeined thought, of unnamed motives, of unstated purposes, of unspecified morality. There was…

— Ayn Rand

“Oh, for pity’s sake,” she muttered, but stopped fighting him. After a moment of enduring the indignity of having his hands on her, she…

— Sabrina Jeffries

“There was no action she could take against the men of undefined thought, of unnamed motives, of unstated purposes, of unspecified morality. There was…

— Ayn Rand

“There was nothing she could say to them--nothing would be heard or answered. What were the weapons, she thought, in a realm where reason…

— Ayn Rand