Quotes of: Jane-austen Keyword

Very few women manage to have it all; certainly not all at once.

Gail Sheehy

Change often brings unimagined opportunity...If there is no struggle, there is no progress. To live in a safe cocoon- I believe that is not truly living. It is stagnation.

The Missing Manuscript of Jane Austen

Mannerism, especially when it takes the form of recurrent word or phrase, is by no means easy to represent; there is but a hair's breadth between the point at which the reader delightfully recognizes is as a revealing habit of speech, and the point a...

Jane Austen And Her Art

I used to write at home, but it didn't ever occur to me to be a writer.

Sarah Waters

In our cultural history, all emotions have been more culturally acceptable to women.

Ariel Gore

Marriage equality is coming, and not merely to a theater near you.

Suzanne Brockmann

A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.

Arthur Symons

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

Emily Dickinson

It's very difficult, I think, especially on two cellphones, to have a romantic conversation.

Rainbow Rowell

That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.

Sean Penn

Like almost everything else from the West, the Romantic Revolution arrived late in Russia.

Tom Stoppard

Any romantic feelings for a 12-year-old are like entering into a fantasy world.

Wes Anderson

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

William Makepeace Thackeray

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Downhill track sports like luge are technology battles, as exciting as a NASCAR qualifying day.

Alex Berenson

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.

H. G. Wells

Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.

Barbara Cartland

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

E. W. Howe

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.

Gail Sheehy

I got into writing and thinking about politics because I was told there would be no math.

Jeff Greenfield

I can't envision an honest war novel that left war in a positive light.

Kevin Powers