Age Ninety Quote by Susan Cain

I had always imagined Rosa Parks as a stately woman with a bold temperament, someone who could easily stand up to a busload of…

— Susan Cain

“She was resilient A brave soldier when life tested her It didn't matter that she did strange things like stand tall under the rain…

— M.J. Abraham

“She attracted people to her; she had presence, an uncommon magnetism . Documenting her effect on her habitat, a naturalist would likely have compared…

— Mohsin Hamid

“If ultimately there was a tantalizing rectitude about her, she was none the less cunning: her exceeding gentleness, howbeit mitigated sometimes by the disturbing…

— Georges Bataille

She was a lioness. She was described as an iron fist in a velvet glove. She needed that culture and background to survive in…

— Sean Hepburn Ferrer

“It was only in the first few years that she felt herself screaming silently, at times, for a glimpse of human ability, a single…

— Ayn Rand

“She was savage and superb, wild-eyed and magnificent; there was something ominous and stately in her deliberate progress. And in the hush that had…

— Joseph Conrad

“Her eyes, full of ancient, sacred wisdom. Her bones, deposits of inherited bravery. She is a proud descendant of strong, courageous women who went…

— Melody Lee

“She was lionized, canonized, Nobel Prized (and was wonderfully inspirational, as disinterested in acclaim as in her ostracism, working until her nineties).”

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“Her ideas were expressions of her inability to accept her own personal tragedy and her quest for some certainty on which she could rest…

— Jill Ker Conway

“From what you know of her, you will not be surprised that she threw some exaggeration and wilfulness, some pride and impetuosity, even into…

— George Eliot

“she was the kind of woman who only gave herself away in small doses, leaving men wandering like little children at all that she…

— Christopher Poindexter