Age Quote by Tallulah Bankhead

[When opposed by leaders of her Council:] I will make you shorter by the head!

— Elizabeth I

[...] Shimamoto had her own little world within her. A world that was for her alone, one I could not enter.

— Haruki Murakami

“[...] She started disappearing as soon as she was born. Just to get away from you.”

— Catherynne M. Valente

[On her mother, who died when Hutton was 4:] I hardly remember her, but I have missed her all my life.

— Barbara Hutton

[Before being burned at the stake for her faith:] Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames.

— Joan of Arc

“[…] she kept the madness of her heart intact.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

[She was] kept there in the sort of embrace a man gives to the dearest creature the world holds for him.

— Louisa May Alcott

[On hearing that Clare Boothe Luce was invariably kind to her inferiors:] And where does she find them?

— Dorothy Parker

[When told that her grandchild had her nose:] I didn't get this nose until I was thirty-four.

— Joan Rivers

“Memories of her, however, would remain with him. Everywhere he’d look, she would be there, as if she were a hundred women, all shadow…

— Karen Ranney

“She was not too tall, and of a voluptuous build, so that my eyes wandered amid many charms that hitherto had been strangers to…

— E.T.A. Hoffmann

“The issues Miss Quested had raised were so much more important than she was herself that people inevitably forgot her.”

— E.M. Forster