Quotes of: Herself Keyword

I never wanted to play a character that hated herself. I wanted people to know that those aren't the only roles for people like me, normal girls.

Amber Riley

She had not expected, out in the world, to find herself quite so much the wrong sort of person.

Ali Smith

If a woman is comfortable with herself, I think that's what radiates. I think the moment you start questioning your body and looks is when you get into trouble.

Alanna Ubach

Of all mad matches never was the like Being mad herself, she’s madly mated.

William Shakespeare

The name Aziza is of Arabic origin and means precious. I call her Sitti, the Arabic village word for my grandmother. Although Sitti stands true to her name, someone is always telling her she isn’t precious. As she grows into womanhood, Sitti hides ...

Happy Am I. Holy Am I. Healthy Am I.

Inside the room there sat a rocker, which she sat on, and which had rocked her while she sipped the beer, because in spite of herself she had become so giddy to have so quickly relieved her heart that she allowed herself to lean backwards while in th...

Billy's Room

Yes, she was the girl playing basketball with all the boys in the park, collecting cans by the side of the road, keeping secret pet kittens in an empty boxcar in the woods, walking alone at night through the rail yards, teaching her little sister how...

The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas: Stories

A woman has to change her nature if she is to be a wife. She has to learn to curb her tongue, to suppress her desires, to moderate her thoughts and to spend her days putting another first. She has to put him first even when she longs to serve herself...

The Other Queen

Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself. 'Not yet, not yet.

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

She was disgusted with herself...and the disgust permanently cured her of suicide. Her piddling life did not deserve dramatic remedies.

Cigarettes

She had dealt with her pregnancy by wrapping herself in dreams.

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

She gave herself up to the waves of the storm. If they drowned, it would be together, a shattered vessel on the sea, a collision of longing and desire.

Darkness Falls

A woman who does not guard and treasure herself cannot be of very much value to anyone else.

The Deep Blue Good-By

She needed this. For the comfort, for the love, for all the glorious things she did not deserve and yet could not stop herself from wanting.

Deception of a Highlander

War is an infidel; it holds no loyalties, neither to king nor countryman. She is a whore, selling herself to the highest bidder. Victory is bought in blood and steel.

Dominion

Tears sprang from her eyes and she bit her lip to stop herself from howling at the bright pain.

The Dead Path

She must face the forest of her mother’s past in order to save herself and the one she loves.

The Dead-Tossed Waves

A secret to which truth has always initiated her lovers, and through which they have learned that it is in hiding that she offers herself to them most truly.

Écrits

She was like a heroine in a novel that she herself was writing the character kept protesting that she was too strong for love and yet the narrator went on describing her desire.

Envy

I may want to sleep with Miss America, but I have no wish to hear her talk about herself and her family.

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