Quote by Virginia Woolf

“Without any display of doing more than the rest, or any fear of doing too much, he was always true to her interests and…

— Jane Austen

“He could not admire her destructive loyalty to her brother. But it was born of the steel at her core. As a girl, she…

— Meredith Duran

“She has sold them some of her time for the money she needs to live, but hoarded these moments for herself, and each one…

— Dexter Palmer

“You could see that her tremendous inside life, its solitary fears and fires, was out of accord with her humble view of herself; to…

— Elizabeth Bowen

“It was characteristic of her that she remembered her failures as keenly as her triumphs, and that the passionate desire to obliterate, to "get…

— Edith Wharton

“Her instinct was to defend, to hoard the treasures of her life, to build about herself the symbols of normal existence.”

— John le Carré

“She wanted to get some personal profit out of things, and she rejected as useless all that did not contribute to the immediate desires…

— Gustave Flaubert

“There were other times when she was so shattered by ideas that she could do nothing worth while; when they trampled over her like…

— Willa Cather

“All her life, she was used to being pampered, to having everything she desired, but the things that she valued were never those that…

— F. Sionil José

“She felt as if she were imprisoned in a vault heaped with priceless treasures - an ever-growing hoard that threatened to crush the life…

— Michael Ende

“He'd been unable to discern whether this frantic bustle of hers was what it claimed to be - an ardent determination to live every…

— Lionel Shriver

“Her burdens were her own and burdens were for shoulders strong enough to bear them.”

— Margaret Mitchell