Quotes of: Herself Keyword

He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself [...].

The Awakening

I think that a woman that is elegant herself is somebody who can dress herself easily and effortlessly.

Alice Temperley

Saying that it's for her child, she gets herself a loaf of bread.

Ethiopian

... telling herself stories about herself in a singsong voice, creating her own mythology.

Cutting for Stone

And wishes, truly wishes, that she could say the same herself. Because hurting herself would be so much easier.

After

for a moment, she let herself be defeated, wished herself not exactly annihilation but into a temporary absense, into being nowhere and no one just for a little while.

Alaska

I think the best thing I could ever teach my daughter is that she's not an object or a trophy, and that she can trust in herself and believe in herself and that you are not your things, and you are not your job.

Josh Homme

What I say is, if a witch can't look after herself, she's got no business calling herself a witch.

Terry Pratchett

She had forced herself to learn to read – picked up bits and pieces, here and there, from the very few teachers who had been patient with her; from looking at words while out and about; from television, and from friends. And to avoid the shouting a...

Broken Lights

One day, promised herself as she lay abed, one day she would allow herself to be less than strong.

A Clash of Kings

She found herself longing for home-not just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels that she could lose herself in there.

Envy

You remind me of someone with a bad toothache who's hitting herself in the head with a hammer to distract herself from the pain in her mouth.

Fancy Pants

She existed in her friends; there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them.

Sisterhood Everlasting

A true lady should have the wit and the imagination, or at least the very restraint, to express herself without resorting herself to such base vocabulary.

Thief's Covenant

The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.

The Feminine Mystique

I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now is to write a proper novel.

Kate O'Mara

And all of Laura's stuff, what they wrote originally wasn't as good and Constance wound up doing that herself. That was all her stuff, reading to the child, because she had children herself and that's what she would have done.

William Devane

But in the end I'd marry her to the one she herself loved. To a father, the man his daughter falls in love with herself always seems the worst. That's how it is.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

China will consider herself fortunate if she succeeds in keeping herself intact and is not dismembered or partitioned among the European powers that are colonizing the continent of Asia.

Jose Rizal

I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.

Anais Nin