Annoyed Quote by Terry Pratchett

“She had a sense of comedy that was really exquisite, but she needed people, always people, to bring it out, with the inevitable result…

— Virginia Woolf

“In truth she is not a hard lady naturally, and the time has been when the sight of the venerable figure suing to her…

— Charles Dickens

“She could not fail to observe that a life of academic distinction was singularly ill rewarded. She had no desire whatever to teach and…

— Agatha Christie

“A woman who knew her own mind and scorned the conventions of polite society. We were going to get along just fine.”

— Gail Honeyman

“She had learned that when people were bent on doing something they believed was a good deed, it was usually impossible to dissuade them.”

— Celeste Ng

“Either the woman was incredibly malleable and naive—or she may have been open to enticement, no matter what she told the authorities. Hers is…

— Gaiutra Bahadur

“Honestly, of all the unnecessary things her mother had taught her in the last eighteen years, she couldn’t have found two minutes to say,…

— Kristi Ann Hunter

“I felt there was a lot I needed to teach her. I wanted to give her an early grounding in the basics of arithmetic…

— Jeannette Walls

“Throughout her life, she behaved as if she had never heard anyone suggest that a woman couldn't do entirely as she pleased.”

— Francine Prose

“ Why , instead of teaching her poetry and drama and needlework, had her governesses not taught the most important lesson anyone could learn…

— Mary Balogh

“She wasn't used to being the kind of woman whose house had a study. It sounded to her like she lived on the damned…

— Stacy Bierlein

“She more than likely came from good enough people. Poor, honest, hard-working folks that never got ahead but did all right as long as…

— Steve Earle