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She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.

– Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron MacaulayRate it:

She told me she would make it to 115. And she kept her word.

– Paul CooperRate it:

She told me that a friend of hers had heard of me and exclaimed “he’s disturbing to read.” now i like that – “disturbing to read: -- like popping pills or pushing the plunger down, like big knives and rusty razors. i’m fucking disturbing – let me disturb you too

– Scott C. HolstadRate it:

She used to drag her mattress besider her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibrates from speed. Life rushed in upon her through that window - or so it seemed. In reality, of course, life rushes from within, not from without. There is no work of art so big or so beautiful that is was not once all contained in some youthful body, like this one which lay on the floor in the moonlight, pulsing with ardor and anticipation.

– Willa CatherRate it:

She wanted something to happen - something, anything she did not know what.

– Kate ChopinRate it:

She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what.

– Kate ChopinRate it:

she wants to to be loved for a few hours at least. I look away, people need peace. it’s raining hard outside; lives are breaking in the storm.

– Scott C. HolstadRate it:

She was a phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament.

– William WordsworthRate it:

She was a thinking bosom and one who overpowered her young lovers, all Sybil — a Romantic.

– V. S. PritchettRate it:

She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.

– Henry JamesRate it:

She was conscious that the things she did were the things she had always wanted to do.

– Zelda FitzgeraldRate it:

She was daydreaming out the kitchen window into the backyard. And wondered what it would feel like being naked on the swing. That night, with everyone in bed, she removed her nightgown and walked across the backyard to the swing. She felt exhilaration because she wasn’t supposed to be there.

– RJ IntindolaRate it:

She was never your's, it was just your turn.

– Jalal ad-Din Muhammad RumiRate it:

She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

– Max BeerbohmRate it:

She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

– George AdeRate it:

She was unstoppable not because she did not have failures or doubts, but because she continues on despite them.

– unknownRate it:

She wasn't looking for a knight. She was looking for a sword.

– unknownRate it:

She wasn’t born as a strong woman. She was forged to become one, by the fires she had to walk through, and by the oceans of tears she had to shed.

– Deodatta V. Shenai-KhatkhateRate it:

She watched the smoke from the cigarette ooze slowly up to the ceiling, form into a nebulous cloud above her head like some miniature L.A. and then glanced at me. “Open the window, the room smells.” As I struggled with the lock, I noticed the cracks in the pane looked like so many veins in her wrist, pulsing, throbbing, making rivers of passion and death.

– Scott C. HolstadRate it:

She went through things with the Frank family as if it was her own family. Not that she talked a lot about it, she actually never did, but the fact that she named her daughter after Anne Frank shows that Bep reserved a special place in her heart for Anne.

– Willy van der Vennen-VoskuijlRate it:

She who is a dancer can only sway the silk of her hair like the summer breeze

– Shah Asad RizviRate it:

She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns.

– Olga BroumanRate it:

She will not bow to anyone, she was born to run with wolves not to be fenced in with sheep. Hunt her with respect.

– unknownRate it:

She will remember the moments you made her feel loved more than the times you said, I love you.

– unknownRate it:

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