Quote by Stephen Crane

“The hair on his arms rose at the simmering wrath in her voice. A woman made of steel and crackling embers.”

— Sarah J. Maas

“She began to complain. Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.”

— Oscar Wilde

“...mistaken for the affectation and coquetry of an elegant female.”

— Jane Austen

“She stalked toward me, hips swaying side to side, eyes hardened with anger. Echo pushed her body agaist mine, parts of her fitting perfectly…

— Katie McGarry

“The fierceness of man rules the fates of women.”

— Elder Edda

“Nurtured by negative circumstances, braiding raging tornadoes in her hair, she held her head high, wearing her weathered poetry with pride.”

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

“Loud people, especially loud women, always attract enemies. It may have helped her, not to have been so threateningly beautiful...She actually told us that…

— Ian McEwan

“She came into the room with an easy gracefulness which would at once command the respect of any lunatic, for easiness is one of…

— Bram Stoker

“Just… be careful.’ I stared at her, baffled. 'Of what?’ 'Of powerful men.”

— Leigh Bardugo

“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

“she regarded with an astonishment that had in it a mild degree of amusement the violence of the feelings which it stirred in her.”

— Nella Larsen

“Her shame and fierceness were blended.”

— John Steinbeck