Behinds Quote by Sandra Dallas

Some women don't care how their quilts look. They piece the squares together any sort of way, but she couldn't stand careless sewing. She…

— Julia Peterkin

There was a part of her she hadn’t yet allowed to be born because it was too beautiful for this place

— Denis Johnson

In all her intercourse with society, however, there was nothing that made her feel as if she belonged to it... She stood apart from…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Our quilts were more than useful, they had the faint sentimentality of a pressed flower. And no more beauty. We did not value them…

— Rose Wilder Lane

“Within this enclosed women's world, so to say, behind the walls and fortifications of it, I felt the presence of a great ideal, without…

— Karen Blixen

She would fain have caught at the skirts of that departing time, and prayed it to return, and give her back what she had…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“That day, instead, I saw clearly the mothers of the old neighbourhood. They were nervous, they were acquiescent. They were silent, with tight lips…

— Elena Ferrante

After she was gone there would be no one who knew the whole of her life. She did not even know the whole of…

— Susan Minot

“Quilts are more than something to keep you warm. They give women a way to express themselves creatively.I like the way that you're using…

— Barbara Cameron

We broke through the feminine mystique and women who were wives, mothers and housewives began to find themselves as people. That didn't mean they…

— Betty Friedan

They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children…

— Virginia Woolf

Some women just aren’t cut out to be mothers, and unfortunately it had taken Susanna three kids to realize she was one of them.

— Kelley Armstrong