Sleep Quote by William Faulkner

“She is too absorbed in the difficulties of being seventeen to want to hear the confusions of forty-four.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

she is nearing forty and not so easily forgiven as when her skin bloomed like roses.

— Steve Martin

She is not old, she is not young, The Woman with the Serpent's Tongue. The haggard cheek, the hungering eye, The poisoned words that…

— William Watson

We see many sides of her, beyond the 'Ballad of Mulan.' We see her as a human being, as a girl, as a young…

— Liu Yifei

... if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us to break her…

— Virginia Woolf

“Her opinion is that she did not struggle her way to the august age of forty-three only to have the dignity accorded to her…

— Zen Cho

One must be patient like the earth. What iniquities are being perpetuated on her! Yet she quietly endures them all.

— Sarada Devi

“Besides,” he said, clomping down the centuries-old stone steps, “she won’t last that long. Once she sees all those sharp swords and dirks, and…

— Terry Spear

And if unhappy in her love, her heart is like some fortress that has been captured, and sacked, and abandoned, and left desolate...

— Washington Irving

“seventeen, tells her”

— Jennifer Weiner

She's been conned, ruined, left for dead, and she's not going to forgive any of it. She will soldier on, if only out of…

— Lauren DeStefano

In her heart she is a mourner for those who have not survived. In her soul she is a warrior for those who are…

— Andrea Dworkin