Half Quote by Virginia Woolf

All her life she had made her own mistakes and her own successes, both usually by trying what others said she could not do.

— Vonda N. McIntyre

Had it taken her this long to discover that she lacked some simple mental trick that everyone else had, a mechanism so ordinary that…

— Ian Mcewan

She had all her life long been accustomed to harbor thoughts and emotions which never voiced themselves… They belonged to her her and were…

— Kate Chopin

“All those years were now seeming like a betrayal of what she really was. While her body, her needs, her emotions–all of herself–had been…

— Doris Lessing

She was a little given to rehearsing things in her mind, and having imaginary triumphs over people who had upset her in one way…

— James M. Cain

She just happened to feel like it. Wasn’t that after all, the only reason there was? Had she ever had a less selfish, more…

— Richard Yates

“She made a choice that day never to disregard the fact that people need to do things sometimes that others may not understand—and that…

— Patricia Strefling

And she thought what a clean, simple life she would have led if it weren't for love.

— Anne Tyler

But now that she had achieved knighthood, and thought and acted as she wanted and decided, for one has to act in this way…

— Kathy Acker

She didn't know how to love, to give herself to someone, to out herself in someone else's keeping and take him into hers. She…

— Christine Feehan

She existed in her friends; there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them.

— Ann Brashares

She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right…

— Nicholas Sparks