Quotes of: Woolf Keyword

That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don't understand.

Mary Wesley

Do you really wish to disobey me, Marbas? Do you wish to anger my father?

Cassandra Clare

This was a little house, with a ceiling that kept getting higher and higher, a hot place with no windows. This was anger.

Helen Oyeyemi

At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.

Barbara Pym

I think the main thing to remember when writing a novel is to stay true to the characters.

Cassandra Clare

It's all about vanity, isn't it? I think it says something about people if they can't do it

Gwendoline Riley

My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.

Joyce Carol Oates

I'm not a chef. I think in this country, we use the term very loosely. I'm a cook and a teacher.

Julia Child

Martha: I swear, if you existed, I'd divorce you.

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.

Marianne Williamson

Enchanted partnership begins with the conscious understanding, on the part of two people, that the purpose of their relationship is not so much material as spiritual, and the internal skills demanded by it are prodigious.

Marianne Williamson

'Traveling with Pomegranates' is a very personal, very honest story about my relationship with my daughter and Ann's with her mother.

Sue Monk Kidd

We 'chicks' have munched our popcorn while romantic comedies became just comedies, and then each female protagonist got recast for Matthew McConaughey or Seth Rogan.

Emma McLaughlin

Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.

Philippa Gregory

I love reading other people's diaries, especially someone like Virginia Woolf's - such a formidable woman that it's a revelation when she shows you a more vulnerable side of herself.

Michael Palin

Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.

Marianne Williamson

The man I love may decide tomorrow that he loves me no more - but if my heart remains open, I will endure the storm.

Marianne Williamson

There is a fundamental difference between men and women - women need romance, men need intrigue.

Sherry Argov

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.

Mary Wesley

What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.

Alice James