Quote by William Leisner

“In the mind of the public, she seemed endowed with an almost supernatural power to commit heinous acts, now matter the time or place.”

— Alexis Coe

“It became its own discipline, the fear of failing to do as they said; a voice in her head berating her before anyone else…

— Sarah Hilary

“And reading this way - with no deadline, no agenda - she remembered why she loved literature so much. It was like fucking a…

— Emily Maguire

“She had, she declared, "no patience with women whom I hear telling what wonders they would do if they were only men, when I…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

“The burden of selfhood,” she sighed. “Life-long anguish. Straining to support an elaborate artifice every waking moment. Trying to maintain our bullshit personas. Haircuts,…

— Adam Baker

“Unsaid was her conviction that all this was in preparation for some future endeavor. But what?”

— Sam Wellman

“Her words washed over him reversing his self-consciousness over the years.”

— Twyla Turner

“She found herself suddenly surrounded by a host of assumptions. It was assumed that she trembled for joy in his presence, languished in his…

— Vita Sackville-West

“Her present, her future—everything—depended on his words and whether she chose to believe them.”

— Jacquelyn Middleton

“If she’d learned anything about herself over the years it was that self-doubt inevitably led to self-destruction.”

— Amanda Stevens

“From what you know of her, you will not be surprised that she threw some exaggeration and wilfulness, some pride and impetuosity, even into…

— George Eliot

“it took me a long time to realize that she, too, was cautious and bourgeois, frightened of the unknown and so uncertain of herself…

— Claire Messud