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Edith Wharton

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MICHAEL DIRDA Overhead hung a summer sky furrowed with the rush of rockets; and from the east a late moon, pushing...
EDITH WHARTON The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes.
CHARLOTTE CURTIS 'The Buccaneers' was an Edith Wharton novel, and she never finished it, and a screenwriter a...
JAMES FRAIN The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes.
CHARLOTTE CURTIS In all my novels, a sense of place - not just geographic but social - is a critical element. I have ...
SUSAN WIGGS Minds me of a married woman who was very proud of her virtue. She slept with other men only when her...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Henry James and Edith Wharton are huge for me because they gave me a way to understand America while...
CLAIRE MESSUD Was it an instinct towards their future life together that she was already sensing, which made her p...
SANA KRASIKOV I am very fond of Edith Wharton. She's quite high brow but also a great storyteller. My favorite...
KEN FOLLETT It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual...
EDITH WHARTON The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very dif...
W. H. AUDEN It was kind of awkward seeing her and having all those other people there looking on. So we didn't g...
CARLOS CASILLAS The other aspect of idealism is the one which gives us our notion of the absolute Self. To it the fi...
JOSIAH ROYCE She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some rem...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her prof...
PHILIP K. DICK The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at ...
GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY prides herself not only on her acting ability and other talents, but also on her natural physical ap...
SHARON STONE A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ...
SIMONE WEIL She called herself an angel, and wandered the world from girlhood till death. She lived every kind o...
ROMAN PAYNE He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herse...
KATE CHOPIN God is not solitude, but perfect communion. For this reason the human person, the image of God, real...
POPE BENEDICT XVI It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That ...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS What do you mean, Phib?" asked Miss Squeers, looking in her own little glass, where, like most of us...
CHARLES DICKENS Edith Vonnegut behaved like a guest in her children's lives. To her way of thinking, parenting c...
CHARLES J. SHIELDS How frustrating to think you can be lost to yourself. And yet how often it is that a stranger stares...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH I went to the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania like my dad did. I even gave the grad...
AARON KARO Sitting in an armchair under yellow lamplight in front of a black window in an apartment whose only ...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG Not only were the platforms in the science fiction movies user-aware, they were self-aware, and that...
JUSTIN RATTNER And it was this image that was stamped on the hearts and minds of all who were present that day. Of ...
MELINA MARCHETTA Chess lied to herself every day; it was just something she did, like taking her pills or making sure...
STACIA KANE Every lineament of the girl's wasted body is a testament to her inner turmoil. Willow can only imagi...
JULIA HOBAN Her eyes were full of a hot liquid (she did not think of tears at first) which, without disturbing t...
VIRGINIA WOOLF So he caught her in his arms and kissed her, and they were very happy, and told each other what a be...
E. NESBIT She was nothing but a woman who put other people in front of herself. She cared so much about her ki...
NICOLE BROWN Seeing, feeling, thinking, believing - these are the stages of how we change our style on the outsid...
STACY LONDON The self is only that which it is in the process of becoming.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Her silent singing wrapped around the story she was telling herself, which she extended further ever...
ALICE MUNRO Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to...
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON Bit by bit . . . she had claimed herself. Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of tha...
TONI MORRISON Bit by bit . . . she had claimed herself. Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that...
TONI MORRISON She existed in her friends; there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew hersel...
ANN BRASHARES For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.
RON PAUL If there was an implicit self-hatred in trusting only your own, then how much deeper was the self-lo...
AMITAV GHOSH With the spread of conformity and image-driven superficiality, the allure of an individuated woman i...
ELIZABETH PRIOLEAU Before her angry impulses got the better of her, she admonished herself that she was born to win and...
ANNA GODBERSEN It seemed to me an error in reasoning for a man to isolate a woman he loves from all the circumstanc...
MILAN KUNDERA He called to her primal side; the ancient aspect of her animal self that wanted to submit. It wanted...
DIANNA HARDY My reflections amount to a love story that is mostly made up, from memories that are mostly false, b...
OLIVIA SUDJIC There are 2 versions of Self Image. Inner and Outer.
Get in touch with the inner self image and...
MATTHEW DONNELLY Had there been a Papist among the crowd of Puritans, he might have seen in this beautiful woman, so ...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Her eyes burned, her muscles ached, but in some strange and secret place, she was happy to finally b...
RACHEL CAINE We began to have second thoughts of the image that [Coulter] portrays in some of her presentations, ...
DAVID CROUCH How slight a thing will disturb the equanimity of our frail minds!
CHARLES DICKENS Elizabeth Taylor has reinvented herself and her image time and time again. The results have often he...
BO DEREK My mother was a huge influence on me. She was a living example of what a Christian should be. Her co...
BARRY SANDERS …In the very simplicity of her desire to punish herself appeared egoism in its purest form. Never ...
YUKIO MISHIMA The image in Japan is like that of a school bus being run over by a tank. That is not the image Amer...
HIROKO HAKODA The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's ...
SHANA ALEXANDER . . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, h...
CHARLES DICKENS I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I...
ANNE BRONTE I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I...
ANNE BRONTE I would not send a poor girl into the world, . . . ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor w...
ANNE BRONTE I'm not buying it. I grew up in Southern California. I'm not buying into (the notion) that has to be...
BEN HOWLAND They didn't want to have the image of seeing him in their mind.
ED DAVIS He dropped his head and kissed her. He kissed her and it was a kiss of utter certainty, the kind of ...
JOJO MOYES She was a young person of many theories; her imagination was remarkably active. It had been her fort...
HENRY JAMES First she starved herself of love, which meant also life; then of poetry in deference to what she th...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Fortune is a goddess that reveals herself only to people who seek her
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA When we first signed Courtney up for karate, we did it because we thought it was important that she ...
REBECCA MCKINNEY She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she prefer...
ÉMILE ZOLA It was always the same; other people gave up loving before she did. They got spoilt, or else they we...
ÉMILE ZOLA This is a self-imposed imprisonment because she shuts herself away to write to try to make sense out...
DOUG CASKEY It had been too much for Edith to take and she had gone to her room so that her nieces wouldn't see ...
ANNA GODBERSEN Whenever an occasion arose in which she needed an opinion on something in the wider world, she borro...
HARUKI MURAKAMI The ironic fact is that humanism which began with man's being central eventually had no real meaning...
FRANCIS A. SCHAEFFER If she has a good, strong, reliable father image, which is hard to find these days, that will be her...
ROBERT JOHNSON Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed...
INDRA DEVI It was more for the safety of herself given the nature of her behavior. She wasn't threatening peopl...
RANDY DEGASPERIN So boasting of her capacity to surround and protect, there was scarcely a shell of herself left for ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF This was kind of a mirror image of the other game.
BOB MARQUARDT The instant that movies became described as character driven was the instant when characters stopped...
STEVE ERICKSON Her only thought was of getting away, as if she were carrying a live grenade from inside the house, ...
JENNIFER EGAN A woman who has a sense of humor possesses no refuge from the merciless truth about herself. She can...
L.M. MONTGOMERY On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not t...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR After years of secularism we're introducing Islam in a new way into the constitution, ... The only o...
LEILA AHMED The latter part of her stay in Voronezh had been the happiest period in Princess Marya's life. Her l...
LEO TOLSTOY There is only one limitation that exists in our minds, which can indeed reduce the speed of our prog...
SUNDAY ADELAJA What is this all about,' asked Sai, but her mouth couldn't address her ear in the tumult; her mind c...
KIRAN DESAI When you're strong physically, it improves your strength in every other facet of your life. You&...
JILLIAN MICHAELS The culture that Edith Wharton writes about is very nouveau riche. They don't have the experience or...
JANE JONES It's actually a business that houses refurbished carpet.
ANNETTE PONCE Elizabeth disliked the tragic, martyred image of Virginia Woolf which grew up after her death. When ...
VICTORIA GLENDINNING The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative...
BETTY FRIEDAN Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment
MAXWELL MALTZ We have self-centered minds which get us into plenty of trouble. If we do not come to understand the...
JOKO BECK She was the one holding the thing together. She was very certain of her herself.
ALEX PANTAROTTO A person must find the courage to live a complete and full life. We learn to live when we stop being...
KILROY J. OLDSTER How could it be? She watched, observed, reflected, and finally determined that this was not a case o...
JANE AUSTEN

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True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
EDITH WHARTON There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
EDITH WHARTON I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time...
EDITH WHARTON He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.
EDITH WHARTON The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
EDITH WHARTON In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.
EDITH WHARTON To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?
EDITH WHARTON When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it ...
EDITH WHARTON I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it in...
EDITH WHARTON There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rise...
EDITH WHARTON Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to br...
EDITH WHARTON Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
EDITH WHARTON The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
EDITH WHARTON Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.
EDITH WHARTON If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
EDITH WHARTON There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and belo...
EDITH WHARTON I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the ame...
EDITH WHARTON Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.
EDITH WHARTON Almost everybody in the neighborhood had troubles, frankly localized and specified; but only the cho...
EDITH WHARTON The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
EDITH WHARTON How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to...
EDITH WHARTON An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French ope...
EDITH WHARTON A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
EDITH WHARTON When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it does...
EDITH WHARTON Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet...
EDITH WHARTON There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who refle...
EDITH WHARTON My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a...
EDITH WHARTON The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
EDITH WHARTON I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and c...
EDITH WHARTON After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics ove...
EDITH WHARTON Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heret...
EDITH WHARTON Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing wh...
EDITH WHARTON How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinctio...
EDITH WHARTON Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with t...
EDITH WHARTON In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual...
EDITH WHARTON I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the auth...
EDITH WHARTON My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.
EDITH WHARTON The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
EDITH WHARTON There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
EDITH WHARTON ...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all...
EDITH WHARTON Her whole being dilated in an atmosphere of luxury. It was the background she required, the only cli...
EDITH WHARTON After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the cri...
EDITH WHARTON Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
EDITH WHARTON Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?
EDITH WHARTON An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French ope...
EDITH WHARTON There are two ways of spreading light: To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
EDITH WHARTON It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual...
EDITH WHARTON Life is either always a tight-rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight-rope.
EDITH WHARTON A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definition...
EDITH WHARTON There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that i...
EDITH WHARTON Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a par...
EDITH WHARTON If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
EDITH WHARTON I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the auth...
EDITH WHARTON Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be in...
EDITH WHARTON Everything about her was both vigorous and exquisite.
EDITH WHARTON My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet
EDITH WHARTON There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.
EDITH WHARTON As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in it...
EDITH WHARTON Each time you happen to me all over again.
EDITH WHARTON ...but these backwaters of existence sometimes breed, in their sluggish depths, strange acuities of ...
EDITH WHARTON Silence may be as variously shaded as speech
EDITH WHARTON It seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, even if breakable in prosperity, should be i...
EDITH WHARTON My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a...
EDITH WHARTON If we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
EDITH WHARTON Though he turned the pages with the sensuous joy of the book-lover, he did not know what he was read...
EDITH WHARTON The mere idea of a woman's appealing to her family to screen her husband's business dishonour was in...
EDITH WHARTON It would presently be his task to take the bandage from this young woman's eyes, and bid her look fo...
EDITH WHARTON But marriage is a one long sacrifice.
EDITH WHARTON They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods
EDITH WHARTON There are moments when a man's imagination so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises abo...
EDITH WHARTON His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness h...
EDITH WHARTON I feel that each case must be judged individually, on its own merits ... irrespective of stupid conv...
EDITH WHARTON In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or do...
EDITH WHARTON There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce th...
EDITH WHARTON Xingu!" she scoffed. "Why, it was the fact of our knowing so much more about it than she did—unpre...
EDITH WHARTON She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.
EDITH WHARTON She was very near hating him now; yet the sound of his voice, the way the light fell on his thin, da...
EDITH WHARTON His life, for years past, had been mainly a succession of resigned adaptations, and he had learned, ...
EDITH WHARTON My little dog—a heartbeat at my feet.
EDITH WHARTON Once or twice, in the first days of his marriage, he had asked himself with a slight shiver what wou...
EDITH WHARTON Проблема с принятыми сгоряча решениями в том, что на др...
EDITH WHARTON The blast that swept him came off New Hampshire snow-fields and ice-hung forests. It seemed to have ...
EDITH WHARTON This new resolve gave her a sort of light-headed self-confidence: when she left the dinner-table she...
EDITH WHARTON All the girls feared their Father less than they did their Mother, because she sometimes remembered ...
EDITH WHARTON Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?
EDITH WHARTON Then stay with me a little longer,' Madame Olenska said in a low tone, just touching his knee with h...
EDITH WHARTON I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it intere...
EDITH WHARTON If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
EDITH WHARTON In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive log past the usual ...
EDITH WHARTON If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.
EDITH WHARTON Sometimes life seems like a match between oneself and one's gaolors. The gaolers, of course, are one...
EDITH WHARTON The greatest mistake is to think that we ever know why we do things...I suppose the nearest we can e...
EDITH WHARTON ...It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Ameri...
EDITH WHARTON She had in truth no abstract propensity to malice: she did not dislike Lily because the latter was b...
EDITH WHARTON She seemed always to have seen him through a blur - first of sleepiness, then of distance and indiff...
EDITH WHARTON Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
EDITH WHARTON As he paid the hansom and followed his wife's long train into the house he took refuge in the comfor...
EDITH WHARTON ...they who exchange their independence for the sweet name of Wife must be prepared to find all is n...
EDITH WHARTON The patch of lawn before it had relapsed into a hayfield; but to the left an overgrown box-garden fu...
EDITH WHARTON She rose too, not as if to meet him or to flee from him, but quietly, as though the worst of the tas...
EDITH WHARTON Don't they always go from bad to worse? There's no turning back--your
old self rejects you, and...
EDITH WHARTON And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities.
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EDITH WHARTON Her failure was a useful preliminary to success.
EDITH WHARTON It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assu...
EDITH WHARTON Overhead hung a summer sky furrowed with the rush of rockets; and from the east a late moon, pushing...
EDITH WHARTON She had given him all she had - but what was it compared to the other gifts life held for him? She u...
EDITH WHARTON He had known the love that is fed on caresses and feeds them; but this passion that was closer than ...
EDITH WHARTON It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.
EDITH WHARTON At this point it's simply a suspect case, so we're just taking the extra precautions to make sure no...
BILL WHARTON The risk of anyone else being positive for it is very low.
BILL WHARTON The board has told Mr. Boyd that they much appreciate all of his services. Unfortunately, his positi...
BILL WHARTON He also has very good stroke mechanics, and much like Molly doesn't like to lose. They have it in th...
DAVE WHARTON Until there's a selection, NAB is not commenting.
DENNIS WHARTON This is only a piece of the solution, and represents a transparent attempt by both cable operators a...
DENNIS WHARTON At the convention we've got almost 113,000 people from all walks of communication. The industry now ...
DENNIS WHARTON We can't remain stagnant. Look what happened to television, the Internet. Everything changes.
DENNIS WHARTON We believe satellite radio companies were licensed for national radio programming services exclusive...
DENNIS WHARTON Most TV and radio stations view the Internet as an opportunity to enhance their service to listeners...
DENNIS WHARTON We think of broadcast TV as a lifeline in a time of emergency. A lot of the people broadcast TV serv...
DENNIS WHARTON We've said we would accept a hard date and get spectrum back to public safety.
DENNIS WHARTON Surveys we have seen suggest parents are using them.
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BRUCE WHARTON The request and reservation forms are available online on our Web site.
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DAVE WHARTON Molly had a great day and really stood out.
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EDITH PIAF What the people wanted was a government which would provide a comfortable life for them, and with th...
EDITH HAMILTON He was, first and last, the born fighter, to whom the consciousness of being matched against a great...
EDITH HAMILTON I loved anything to do with animals from a very early age.
EDITH WIDDER Squid don't eat jellyfish, but they eat the things that eat the jellyfish. Jellyfishes put on a ...
EDITH WIDDER One of the things that's frustrated me as a deep-sea explorer is how many animals there probably...
EDITH WIDDER We need a NASA-like organization for ocean exploration, because we need to be exploring and protecti...
EDITH WIDDER We've only explored about five percent of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made ...
EDITH WIDDER In 2010, there was a TED event called Mission Blue held aboard the Lindblad Explorer in the Galapago...
EDITH WIDDER It's a little-appreciated fact that most of the animals in our ocean make light. I've spent ...
EDITH WIDDER I have made hundreds of dives in submersibles, with each dive holding the promise of seeing an organ...
EDITH WIDDER I never, ever would have imagined the kind of career I've had. It just wouldn't have occurre...
EDITH WIDDER The giant squid has the biggest eyes of any animal on the planet. It's a visual predator.
EDITH WIDDER If we are to be good stewards of the ocean, we need to understand what lives there and how the anima...
EDITH WIDDER Giant squid aren't rare. Based on the number of beaks that have been found in the stomachs of sp...
EDITH WIDDER For my Ph.D. thesis, I was measuring the electrical activity that triggers light emission from a bio...
EDITH WIDDER I think I have the best job in the world. Seventy-one percent of the planet is covered by water, we&...
EDITH WIDDER It is clear that if we are going to understand ocean ecosystems, we need to understand the part that...
EDITH WIDDER Finding animals that make light in the ocean is easy. Just drag a net through the water anywhere in ...
EDITH WIDDER We've only explored about 5% of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made down there...
EDITH WIDDER There's a lionfish cookbook put out by the Reef Environmental Educational Foundation, and it tel...
EDITH WIDDER During my first open ocean dive, I went down to 800 feet and turned out the lights. I knew I would s...
EDITH WIDDER Since my first dive in a deep-diving submersible, when I went down and turned out the lights and saw...
EDITH WIDDER The state has got to be its own master. The modalities of civic life may not be prescribed for it th...
EDITH STEIN All our own present experiences are primordial. What could be more primordial than experience itself...
EDITH STEIN A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community un...
EDITH STEIN During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impert...
EDITH STEIN The community that stands behind a culture as a comprehensively productive personality must be so ex...
EDITH STEIN Both spiritual companionship and spiritual motherliness are not limited to the physical wife and mot...
EDITH STEIN Whoever resorts regularly to the lessons of Holy Scripture as an apt pupil will take the Savior into...
EDITH STEIN As the possessor of complete knowledge, God is not mistaken about people's experiences as people...
EDITH STEIN Diverse forms of memory can have a variety of gaps. Thus it is possible for me to represent a past s...
EDITH STEIN The emotions have been seen as the center of woman's soul. For that reason, emotional formation ...
EDITH STEIN One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And t...
EDITH STEIN Because human development is the most specific and exalted mission of woman, studies in anthropology...
EDITH STEIN Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for t...
EDITH STEIN On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every co...
EDITH STEIN Since Mary is the prototype of pure womanhood, the imitation of Mary must be the goal of girls' ...
EDITH STEIN Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is t...
EDITH STEIN The entire educational process must be carried out with love, which is perceptible in every discipli...
EDITH STEIN The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
EDITH STEIN In order to be an image of God, the spirit must turn to what is eternal, hold it in spirit, keep it ...
EDITH STEIN The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elev...
EDITH STEIN If anyone comes to me, I want to lead them to Him.
EDITH STEIN My longing for truth was a single prayer.
EDITH STEIN This is a serious warning cry: Surrender without reservation to the Lord who has called us. This is ...
EDITH STEIN Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever...
EDITH SITWELL The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous...
EDITH SITWELL The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
EDITH SITWELL I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am...
EDITH SITWELL I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
EDITH SITWELL I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
EDITH SITWELL Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred a...
EDITH SITWELL A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
EDITH SITWELL People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looki...
EDITH SCHAEFFER The farm women are extremely well organized and are bound to be heard from.
EDITH ROGERS I cannot doubt that women will line up, like the men elected, with the groups whose political thinki...
EDITH ROGERS But do not understand me as saying, or for one moment suggesting, that women legislators should conf...
EDITH ROGERS The market town of Cheltenham, in Gloucestershire, was a popular 19th - century English spa. Its min...
EDITH PEARLMAN I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition b...
EDITH PEARLMAN I know a lot of single people who are not miserable as society tells them they're supposed to be...
EDITH PEARLMAN I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity ...
EDITH PEARLMAN There's no rule I want to break or ever wanted to break - I find the conventional life gratifyin...
EDITH PEARLMAN I lived around the corner from Saul Bellow.
EDITH PEARLMAN Tony Judt's remarkable 'The Memory Chalet' was written from the prison of mute immobilit...
EDITH PEARLMAN In the late 1950s, self-esteem hadn't yet been invented. High schools saw their sole mission as ...
EDITH PEARLMAN The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and pr...
EDITH PEARLMAN I was quite satisfied with my creative life. I've always had reinforcement from a small but devo...
EDITH PEARLMAN I think the computer is a hindrance to good writing because it is so tempting to leave what you'...
EDITH PEARLMAN