At-odds Quote by Tessa Dare

“This book is for women trying to find their "right"place, when so much they have had faith in has let them down.”

— D. Adiba

“A woman should be like a great book— the kind you can’t forget, long after the last page.”

— Angelika Regossi

“Don't you agree that there must be something radically wrong with a civilisation, society, theory of life - call it what you like in…

— Catherine Carswell

“The pleasure of this sort of life-bookish, she supposed it might be called, a reading life- had made her isolation into a rich and…

— Louise Erdrich

“was the only provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.”

— Jane Austen

“I had affairs with a few girls of my own age, and they taught me that no girl, however intelligent and war-hearted, can possibly…

— Stephen Vizinczey

“If there are young ladies in the world at her time of life more dull of fancy and more careless of pleasing, I know…

— Jane Austen

“And of course she enjoyed life immensely. It was her nature to enjoy. Anyhow there was no bitterness in her; none of that sense…

— Virginia Woolf

“This is a book about women. This is a book about girls who had a ton of fear and personal flaws and faced insurmountable…

— Ann Shen

“As I’d worked at my job and traveled and read and lived my life, I’d also decided that a woman is meant to be…

— Anu Partanen

“Each time a girl opens a book and finds a womanless history, she learns she is worth less.”

— Myra Pollack Sadker

“Why does everyone think a girl who prefers books to people must be in want of a life?”

— Lauren Morrill