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Marilyn French: Fear is a...

Marilyn French: Fear is a...

Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore...

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Alice Koller: Being solitary is...

Alice Koller: Being solitary is...

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the...

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Sara Jeannette Duncan: A human being...

Sara Jeannette Duncan: A human being...

A human being isn't an orchid, he must draw something from the soil he grows in.

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Peggy Noonan: Remember the waterfront...

Peggy Noonan: Remember the waterfront...

Remember the waterfront shack with the sign Fresh Fish Sold Here. Of course it's fresh, we're on the ocean. Of course...

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Susan Warner: There is a...

Susan Warner: There is a...

There is a world there, Winthrop, -- another sort of world -- where people know something; where other things are to...

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Jean Ingelow: It is not...

Jean Ingelow: It is not...

It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Madeleine L'Engle: A book comes...

Madeleine L'Engle: A book comes...

A book comes and says, Write me. My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough,...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: I am who...

Lois McMaster Bujold: I am who...

I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose?though not always what I pleased....

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George Eliot: The scornful nostril...

George Eliot: The scornful nostril...

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of...

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Elizabeth Bowen: All your youth...

Elizabeth Bowen: All your youth...

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are...

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Elizabeth Bowen: Meeting people unlike...

Elizabeth Bowen: Meeting people unlike...

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is...

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Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco: Blessed are those...

Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco: Blessed are those...

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.

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Erica Jong: Ambivalence is a...

Erica Jong: Ambivalence is a...

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Source:...

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Mary McCarthy: I am putting...

Mary McCarthy: I am putting...

I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.

Source: On The Group,, her 1963...

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Olive Schreiner: The troubles of...

Olive Schreiner: The troubles of...

The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will...

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Enid Bagnold: The theatre is...

Enid Bagnold: The theatre is...

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second...

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Margaret Atwood: The Eskimos had...

Margaret Atwood: The Eskimos had...

The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for...

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Djuna Barnes: She wanted to...

Djuna Barnes: She wanted to...

She wanted to be the reason for everything and so she was the cause of nothing.

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Djuna Barnes: Time is a...

Djuna Barnes: Time is a...

Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg...

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Toni Cade Bambara: My mother, religious-negro,...

Toni Cade Bambara: My mother, religious-negro,...

My mother, religious-negro, proud of having waded through a storm, is, very obviously a sturdy bridge that I have...

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