“Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.”― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
Tag: Female Authors’ Quotes
The Reading Woman 2021 Calendar: July
Fascinating woman.
The Reading Woman 2021 Calendar: June
“The poet should try to give his poem the quiet swiftness of flame,so that the reader will feel and not think while he is reading. But the thinking will come afterwards.”—Sara Teasdale
The Reading Woman 2021 Calendar: May
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“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”—Annie Dillard
So me. How about you?
The Reading Woman 2021 Calendar: April
“Those who are happy enough to have a taste for reading, need never be at a loss for amusement.”—Marie de Sevigne
(Still, true in modern time).
The Reading Woman 2021 Calendar: March
I easily sink into mere absorption of what other
minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.
—Mary Anne Evans (1819–80,) known by her pseudonym George Eliot
The Reading Woman 2021 Calendar: January
There is a side of friendship that develops better and stronger by correspondence than contact…. The absence of the flesh in writing perhaps brings souls nearer.—Emily Carr
HAPPY NEW YEAR.
The Reading Woman 2020 Calendar: December
One of my favorite authors, journalist and screenwriters. She was amazing not to mention so funny. Still miss her talent on this earth.
The Reading Woman 2020 Calendar: September
Quote from one of my favorite authors.
“I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much for reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what happened in life.”―
The Reading Woman 2020 Calendar: August
Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what 
community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.—Anne Lamott
Leave Me Alone I Am Reading and Reviewing 