Accounts Quote by Winston Churchill

“She read every author she could get her hands on who wrote a strong female protagonist who triumphed in the end.”

— Wendy Wax

“the nuclear world war that slid mankind back into the dark ages. In front of her, the last out-post within a hundred miles beckoned…

— Angela White

“She had a great desire for knowledge, but she really preferred almost any source of information to the printed page; she had an immense…

— Henry James

“they filled her with the most astonishing sensation of synthesis-as though all the most disparate elements of her biography were at last knitting together.…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“She held in her hands for one brief moment the globe which we spend our lives in trying to shape, round, whole, and entire…

— Virginia Woolf

“I armed her against the censures of the world, shewed her that books were sweet unreproaching companions to the miserable, and that if they…

— Oliver Goldsmith

The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and…

— William Osler

“She wanted to understand the world, and she made a habit of chasing down information to its last hiding place, as though the fate…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“what she did during her lifetime but in the meaning of her life, the inspiration she gave to others, particularly women, to search for…

— Andrew Morton

The world was hers for the reading.

— Betty Smith

“From that time on, the world was hers for the reading.”

— Betty Smith

“She had impeccable beauty — the sort of woman who men started wars over. Wars where thousands died.”

— Armada West