Womens Fiction Quotes

“I do not need to understand words to know he is disappointed I am not a boy. Some things need no translation. And I know, because my body remembers without benefit of words, that men who do not welcome girl-babies will not treasure me as I grow to woman - though he call me princess just because the Guru told him to.

I have come so far, I have borne so much pain and emptiness!

But men have not yet changed.”
― Shauna Singh Baldwin, What the Body Remembers

“When I married Mr. Right, I didn’t realize his first name was ALWAYS.”
― Jill Kargman

“…When you’re in the darkness, know that the light will come. We are light and dark, sun and moon, male and female, yin and yang; life is composed of opposites, in a continuing cycle of change…. When you are in the light, don’t step back into the darkness. Live in that light, and breathe it in fully. I’ve spent so much of my life going over and over the sadness and fear of the past. But we don’t need to go there when we’re not there. When we are in the light, be here, now.”
― Kathryn E. Livingston, Yin, Yang, Yogini: A Woman's Quest for Balance, Strength, and Inner Peace

“There is nothing better than being able to swim in a pool of knowledge so deep it forces ignorance to be uncomfortable in its own skin, to where it no longer holds a sense of being, a sense of purpose. That’s what books do. They allow us to live in the minds of every type of human. They allow us to taste the kind of freedom that even the end of slavery didn’t bring.”
― Kaizen Love, My Name Is Thank-You

“Happiness was an evasive emotion that could not be fabricated, duplicated, or happened upon. It was something that was only handed out to a select few, but just like his mother, Ethan realized that he was never meant to have it.”
― Belinda G. Buchanan, Seasons of Darkness

“Dinner was served on mismatched plates with paper napkins and silverware that looked like it had been stolen from a school cafeteria. The spaghetti was from a box that was still poking out of the garbage pail, the sauce from a jar that was sitting beside the sink. I got the definite impression that he chose to make dinner because he couldn't afford to take me out.”
― Arlene Schindler, The Last Place She'd Look

“Vaheguru, forgive me, but a woman must choose the wisdom of lies over the dangers of truth.”
― Shauna Singh Baldwin, What the Body Remembers

“Me having a stalker is like Donald Trump having a sense of humility. It's not a match.”
― Kristin Dow, Liberty & Means

“You don't have to live in a mansion to be happy. All you need is to create the right space; something that says this is who you are, and you can always change who you are, just as you change your environment.”
― Anthea Syrokou, Eventually Julie

“If you call a gypsy a vagabond, I think you do him wrong,
For he never goes a-travelling but he takes his home along.
And the only reason a road is good, as every wanderer knows,
Is just because of the homes, the homes, the homes to which it goes.”
― Joyce Kilmer

“Desire had never done anything good in her life, so she had divorced it years ago.”
― Talena Winters, Finding Heaven

“My bottom belly was gone! I'd contemplated having that thing sucked out many times, but if you've ever had a face-lift and a brow lift and felt the pain of that, it makes you pause before doing anything else too invasive.”
― Adena Halpern

“The throbbing shimmy spread through my hips and thighs. I could have sworn my body started to glow as if light were shooting from my fingertips and each strand of hair.”
― Kimberley Griffiths Little, Forbidden

“The harsh world unjustly reserved its most severe punishments for women.”
― Rosie Thomas

“Living is deeper than just life”
― Tru Lyfe

“The question isn't what will a mother do to save her child. The question is, what won't a mother do to save her child!”
― Sunanda Chatterjee

“To believe all you have to do is look at the sky.”
― Kathryn E. Livingston, Yin, Yang, Yogini: A Woman's Quest for Balance, Strength, and Inner Peace

“She leans over Roop the way Sardarji leaned over Satya the years she cried for children, brushing tears from Roop's heavy lashes with her lips. She strokes her head as a mother would, says. "Slpee little one, we are together now."
And Roop sleeps, overcome by the afternoon heat.
While Satya watches her.
So trusting, so very stupid.”
― Shauna Singh Baldwin, What the Body Remembers

“Let the lady lead!”
― Regena Bryant, Believe in Me