Books Quote by Suzanne Lazear

“WHEN I WAS LITTLE, I was so girlie and ambitious, I was practically a drag queen. I wanted to be everything at once: a…

— Susan Jane Gilman

“So the Bawdy Bluestocking was the proprietress of her own shop, selling lurid novels to ladies in the front and more esoteric fare in…

— Evelyn Pryce

“She might be the only girl I've ever met who still hasn't learned to sacrifice bodily comfort for fashion's sake.”

— Tim Tharp

“They wanted a girl who knew what it was like to acquire things out of amusement rather than need. Who sympathized with those whose…

— Kathleen Tessaro

“She dreamed of a world where books did not rot or give way to green blot, where words and ideas were not things you…

— Frances Hardinge

“Novels are just another kind of cross-dressing, aren't they?”

— John Irving

“She was dressing for the life she wanted, not the one she had.”

— Anonymous

“She knew she was a purveyor of costume, of disguise, a fabricator of persona, one who touched only the protective surface, never the skin,…

— Jane Urquhart

“If there is one thing that I want to aspire to be, it is not only ‘the author’ but the girl that liked these…

— Christina Noll

“Her father's old books were all she could command, and these she wore out with much reading. Inheriting his refined tastes, she found nothing…

— Louisa May Alcott

“She read all sorts of things: travels, and sermons, and old magazines. Nothing was so dull that she couldn't get through with it. Anything…

— Susan Coolidge

“She would do a mans work when she needed to, but she lived and died without ever putting on a pair of pants. She…

— Wendell Berry