Quotes of: Herself Keyword

In fact she herself once blamed me Kyprogeneia because I prayed this word: I want.

If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

She found herself wondering at what point in her life she had ceased to be Gulliver and had become the strings holding him to the ground.

Joy for Beginners

Diana knew it wouldn't be right, but then she told herself that things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.

Rumors

And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his; she had him all to herself. But he must be made abstract first.

Sons and Lovers

She encouraged herself to see her very small presence in the world as a good thing, a power, something that a hero might possess.

Mr. Fox

Any woman who dares to make her own destiny will always put herself in danger.

The Lady of the Rivers

Jo carried her love of liberty and hate of conventionalities to such and unlimited extent that she naturally found herself worsted in an argument.

Little Women

The greatest gift to man is woman, But the greatest gift to woman is herself.

The Stolen Light of Women: A Quest for Spiritual Truth Beyond Religion

A girl who truly knows herself is a girl that everybody else wants to know.

The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

That wasn’t my future I destroyed,’ she assured herself. ‘I make my own future.

The Staff of Serapis

She sat in the sunshine watching the life on the street and guarding within herself, her own mystery of life.

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

The issues Miss Quested had raised were so much more important than she was herself that people inevitably forgot her.

A Passage to India

She fastened the invisible corset of her composure snugly around herself and prepared to move forward with her plan.

The Perfect Poison

She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than herself.

Persuasion

If a woman defined herself solely by the man she was with—and vice versa—the world would be a very shallow and insipid place, indeed.

Touched with Sight

She's not going to let go until she sees for herself that there's nothing left to hold on to.

Take Me There

She always, She always wanted to express herself but no one cared, So she stopped, She was crushed, Stiff & lifeless, Like everything else.

Unrequited

She had wrapped her marble-like body in a huge fur, and rolled herself up trembling like a cat.

Venus in Furs

She walked with a ghost of herself, one full of potential and possibility. One who was fearless. Where had that girl gone?

Vision in White

I can't give you the moon,” the tinker said. “She doesn't belong to me. She belongs only to herself.

The Wise Man's Fear

Does one deserve to have evil done to her by consequence of putting herself where evil can reach her?

The Way of Kings