Book Quote Daily

"The rarest sound on earth will be that now so pitifully common,—the crying of a little child."
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "Concerning Children"

"Adelaide, there are times when a person chooses between loving and being loved."
—Alice Miller, "The happiest time of their lives"

"When the big cock said that they were to do anything, it was always done, and no words about it!"
—Charlotte Bronte, "The Wise Mamma Goose"

"Love is the happy privilege of mind—Love is the reason of all living things."
—Charlotte Despard, "Chaste as Ice, Pure as Snow: A Novel"

"The consequences of our actions never die"
—Mary Shelley, "Lodore, Vol. 1 (of 3)"

"By raising myself to affluence, I lost every thing that could make it a blessing."
—Jane Austen, "Sense and Sensibility"

"We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers."
—Sylvia Pankhurst, "The Suffragette: The History of the Women's Militant Suffrage Movement, 1905-1910"

"My idea of success is personal freedom."
—Edith Wharton, "The House of Mirth"

"Governments have always tried to crush reform movements, to destroy ideas, to kill the thing that cannot die."
—Emmeline Pankhurst, "My own story"

"The first symptom of deep thought in a woman is dissatisfaction."
—Sarah Grand, "The Heavenly Twins"

"A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, for the protection which the law refuses to give."
—Ida B. Wells, "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases"

"Truth for authority, and not authority for truth."
—Elizabeth Stanton, "The Woman's Bible"

"This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever."
—George Eliot, "Adam Bede"

"Plato continues his dialogue; in spite of the rain; in spite of the cab whistles; in spite of the woman who cries all night long, Let me in! Let me in!"
—Virginia Woolf, "Jacob's Room"

"No one is made happy merely by things. Some continuity of inner life is absolutely necessary, not only to happiness but to health."
—Alice Miller, "Things"

"We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers."
—Sylvia Pankhurst, "The Suffragette: The History of the Women's Militant Suffrage Movement, 1905-1910"

"They have to lower themselves to the manners of men; they have to be unwomanly in order to promote the cause of womanhood."
—Sylvia Pankhurst, "The Suffragette: The History of the Women's Militant Suffrage Movement, 1905-1910"

"Life is a verb, not a noun."
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "Human Work"

"I fear nothing but treason."
—Margaret Oliphant, "Jeanne D'Arc: Her Life And Death"

"Ignorance is the mother of devotion."
—Elizabeth Stanton, "The Woman's Bible"

"how often so much lies hidden from us by an even slighter veil—a gossamer so slender that we may afterwards come to wonder what obstacle it could have presented to us!"
—Jane Austen, "The Watsons: By Jane Austen, Concluded by L. Oulton"

"There are many nice things that seem to be wrong only because they are so nice."
—Susan Anthony, "The Courtship of Susan Bell"

"One can hardly live and labour, and plan and make sacrifices, for any human creature, without learning to love it."
—Elizabeth Gaskell, "Round the Sofa"

"They have decided that it is entirely right and proper for men to fight for their liberties and their rights, but that it is not right and proper for women to fight for theirs."
—Emmeline Pankhurst, "My own story"

"Life was a wonderful, mysterious thing of persistent beauty."
—Lucy Maud Montgomery, "Emily of New Moon"

"Only try to forgive all people who tease and injure you; and remember that nothing more ever happens than God permits,—though He does not yet see fit to let us know why."
—Harriet Martineau, "The Settlers at Home"

"We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; We should count time by heart-throbs."
—Charlotte Despard, "Chaste as Ice, Pure as Snow: A Novel"

"freely available for generations to come."
—Edith Wharton, "The House of Mirth"

"Virtue knows no color line, and the chivalry which depends upon complexion of skin and texture of hair can command no honest respect."
—Ida B. Wells, "The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States"

"The home should be the recognised base and background of our lives; but those lives must be lived in their true area, the world."
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The home: its work and influence"