Quote by Thomas Hardy

“He’d just been waiting for her to catch up to him. And,”

— Sandhya Menon

“Her womanhood went eagerly to meet him.”

— George Gissing

“She hadn’t understood what made her wait, but tonight it was very clear to her. It was for this man she’d waited her entire…

— Sasha Gold

“Why was it always the woman's fate to pace and fret and wait?”

— Eowyn Ivey

“It was as if her body had lain dormant, waiting for the right man to come along and awaken her to her erotic potential.”

— Kitty Thomas

“Finally, she was doing something. She didn't know what, exactly, but action always suited her better than waiting around.”

— Ann Brashares

“She found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had been looking with impatient desire did not, in taking…

— Jane Austen

“She threw herself eagerly into the paths of unsuitable men.”

— Anne Taintor

“Few of the men she saw seemed worth an expenditure of imagination, and it made her smile to think that one of them should…

— Henry James

“She could only wait. But she was not idle while she waited, because she was holding herself in readiness for whatever it was that…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“She is intent on pleasing the men that frighten her.”

— Carla H. Krueger

“A woman in want must wait for the appointed time.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita