Top 100 Because She Quotes
#1. People say, 'You're like Dickens', but I'm not like Dickens. Zadie Smith is a Dickensian writer because she's writing about society now, just as Dickens was writing about his society.
Sarah Waters
#2. My children love everything that sparkles. My boys just go with everything and make it their own, but my daughter is a little upset because she is 9 and I only go to 5, so sometimes she squeezes herself into a five, and she is trying to make that work because she wants to wear it, too.
Heidi Klum
#3. It must have taken years of inside meaness to soak to her outside, because she had a bad case of ugly.
---Shug
J.B. Hamilton Queen
#4. The biggest thing in my life right now is my girlfriend. I love this girl. I know I love her because she told me.
Adam Ferrara
#5. It wasn't a good fake smile. You could always tell when she was faking, because she didn't look friendly; she looked like she was going to throw up.
Rick Yancey
#6. Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?
Victoria Woodhull
#7. Nina, I really would like to go spend some time with Faith," he said bluntly.
"To make me jealous?"
"No. Because she's ... "
"Sweet?" Nina said, pulling a face and batting her eyelashes
"Mine.
Kristan Higgins
#8. She had a little thin face and a little thin body, thin light hair and a sour expression. Her hair was yellow, and her face was yellow because she had been born in India and had always been ill in one way or another.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#9. Nicole Powell of Decatur, Georgia, was off-limits to hot cowboy lawyers. There was no way in hell she was going to return home with her tail between her legs all because she'd let him put HIS there.
Victoria Vane
#10. And I gave you some of those chocolate cupcakes with the squiggle of white frosting across the top. I buy those for your mother because she loved them and won't buy them for herself.
Marilynne Robinson
#11. I am writing to you because she said you listen and understand and didn't try to sleep with that person at that party even though you could have.
Stephen Chbosky
#12. Veronica solves little puzzles because she, like all of us, cannot unravel the bigger ones.
Joss Whedon
#13. My mother didn't want me to be a feminist, a radical, political person, because she was scared. She wanted me to be protected and safe, but my life never was.
Isabel Allende
#14. Because she knows what it's like to live in a world of black, and black, and the tiny bit of white, but when she escaped it, she didn't find the rainbow of colors, the dresses, the singing, the dancing. She only found ugliness.
Alexandra Bracken
#15. I was a big fan of 'The Smurfs' growing up, even though by default - my mom used to force me to watch because she was a 'Smurfs' fan.
Jayma Mays
#16. She sits in the driveway, freezing, for thirty-six minutes. Arguing with herself. Because she thinks she's in love with him too. And there are two ways she can be a fool in love right now. She chooses the harder one. And knocks on the door.
Lisa McMann
#17. [Victoria Clark] is one of those people who has the rarest combination of gifts. I can put her in any classical play tomorrow because she such an extraordinary actress.
Bartlett Sher
#18. Nothing feels real, but that's not a problem because she still hopes that at some point she'll wake up and this will all have been a dream.
Lucy Dillon
#19. I couldn't really relate much to my younger sister, because she was born in 1992, and I was born in 1986. And then my older sister, we just didn't get on that much. Although we bonded over hating our stepdad.
Ellie Goulding
#20. Emojin stopped, turned, and nailed him with her glare. Because she's making this one piece all she'll ever need to show the world who she is instead of coloring her body with random images and needing thirty expressions to show her soul.
Kim Harrison
#21. The lesbian is the archtypical feminist, because she's not into men - she's the independent woman par excellence.
Kate Millett
#22. She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful & life was so short.
Brian Andreas
#23. You don't say, Helena said. She took a cigarette out of her ripped purse and lit it because she smoked. She was a smoker.
Daniel Handler
#24. Because she's my mother, he's the finest man I know and I want them both to be happy but I still don't know whether to slap him on the back, threaten him, punch him or vomit on his shoes.
Kristen Ashley
#25. A woman likes a strong, silent man because she thinks he is listening.
Croft M. Pentz
#26. Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
Vernon Law
#27. I don't suppose you cook?" Tucker inquired hopefully.
"Did you think because she can start fires she'd be great with a grill? Gator asked.
Christine Feehan
#28. You never wore that blue gown for a lover?'
'Absolutely not!' She felt a little indignant at the very idea. 'You think I have a wardrobe just to satisfy my illicit desires? My maid took off its underskirt because she wanted to make sure you found me desirous.
Eloisa James
#29. Vronsky saw nothing and no one. He felt himself as a king, not because she had made an impression on Anna-he did not yet believe that-but because the impression she had made on him gave him happiness and pride.
Leo Tolstoy
#30. Although she was gregarious, she inadvertently separated herself from people because she was so often inside her own head, focusing on her creativity.
Alexandra Robbins
#31. Maybe because she doesn't try so hard to seduce and impress, I guess that's why some guys fell for her. Because she's so different and crazy and we all like a little bit of that in our life.
Caroline Dhavernas
#32. Because she deserved my tears if anyone on earth ever did. I could feel the tears within me, undiscovered, and untouched in their inland sea. Those tears had been with me always.
Pat Conroy
#33. Somebody will come on TV singing, and you're like, 'Oh my God! I mean, they suck! You know, who signed them?' Well, it's just because she's good lookin', or it's because he's takin' his shirt off and he's muscley or something, or else he wouldn't have gotten his chance.
Blake Shelton
#34. MOMB - noun - One who can deal with all of the INSANITY of being a MOM ... Because she's the BOMB!
Tanya Masse
#35. Out of the seething crowd, out of the light and the darkness, came Blossom Rosedale, the one and only Happy Monster, which was a name that she had given herself, not because she loathed the way she looked but because she was truly happy in spite of all her suffering.
Dean Koontz
#36. Real Texans don't want any woman to die of cancer because she can't get decent health care or medical advice. Real Texans don't want any woman to lose control of her life because she can't get birth control.
Wendy Davis
#37. I admire Laura Bush because she's the only librarian who would marry an illiterate.
Hal Sparks
#38. A few months. Long enough to find out she's fucking crazy," he says with a huge roll of his eyes. "And long enough to realize that the reason why I love her is because she's fucking crazy.
Colleen Hoover
#39. Toni Morrison is challenged regularly because she is a black author who writes about the real world. She speaks with so much knowledge about black issues she can't be accused of creating these (issues). People find these issues threatening.
Judith Krug
#40. Finn was different.
And he was different because she wanted him in her life in a way she hadn't wanted anyone for a very long time.
Maybe ever.
Jill Shalvis
#41. Her full name is Eva Morelli Stein Hathaway. She retains her surnames not because they define her, but because she defines them; that is, except for the first--Morelli. Ironically it is the one she's least familiar with...
Maryann D'Agincourt
#42. I sighed again, "Because she was inconsistent and unreliable and was the female version of a Wendell."
He openly considered me, his beautiful lips twisting to the side, "A Wendette?
Penny Reid
#43. I knew I needed Aubrey. I needed her in the worst way possible. I was selfish and frantic, and I honestly didn't care if I took her to hell with me because she would make the trip the sweetest thing I had ever experienced.
She was mine.
And I'd never let her go.
A Meredith Walters
#44. She had been desperate to feel something, anything. She needed a window, because she had broken her heart throwing it at locked doors.
Amy Zhang
#45. Leni Riefenstahl was the one person Goebbels had no control over in the filmmaking community of Nazi Germany, and they despised each other. But because she was Hitler's favorite, she could do what she wanted. She was the only filmmaker that did not have to cow down to Joseph Goebbels.
Quentin Tarantino
#46. I held her tighter, just because I could. Because she was fierce, and beautiful, and mind.
Rachel Vincent
#47. I'm A Queer Poet Too! She stressed queer not because she walked around identifying as a queer poet but so that the youth understood she would fuck her.
Michelle Tea
#48. I know she's weird. Her friends know she's weird. And we all accept it because she's weird, but also amazing.
Shelly Laurenston
#49. This one day her mother gave her
a basket of wine and cake
to take to her grandmother
because she was ill.
Wine and cake?
Where's the aspirin? The penicillin?
Where's the fruit juice?
Peter Rabbit got camomile tea.
But wine and cake it was.
Anne Sexton
#50. I admired Margaret Thatcher - while abhorring much of what she offered - because she was so clearly a leader of huge substance. Blair was the dismal opposite.
Martin Jacques
#51. Tomorrow sees undone, what happens not to-day; Still forward press, nor never tire! The possible, with steadfast trust, Resolve should be by the forelock grasp. Then she will ne'er let go her clasp, And labors on, because she must.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#52. I don't believe in the so-called Latino explosion when it comes to movies. Jennifer Lopez doesn't have an accent. She grew up in New York speaking English, not Spanish. Her success is very important because she represents a different culture, but it doesn't help me.
Salma Hayek
#53. Still, she shoved herself to her feet, because she needed to do what she could, whether it made a difference or not.
Joe Hill
#54. If there had been any unbelief in Mary, that could not prevent God from accomplishing his work in any other way which he might choose. But she is called blessed, because she received by faith the blessing offered to her, and opened up the way to God for its accomplishment.
John Calvin
#55. She's improving every day."
Considering we've just left Lara having to be given something "to calm her down" because she was crying her eyes out, I have to wonder if my mother is living in some kind of alternative reality.
Sarah Darer Littman
#56. Margaret Weylin complained because she couldn't find anything to complain about.
Octavia Butler
#57. He lighted a cigarette, and in the curling smoke of it caught visions of his English mother, and wondered if she would understand how her son could love a woman who cried because she could not be skipper of a schooner in the cannibal isles.
Jack London
#58. Because," she said, "that is what men would call it. They invented Satan, didn't they? Satanic is merely the name they give to the behavior of those who would disrupt the orderly way in which men want to live.
Anne Rice
#59. Generous and authentic leadership will always defeat the selfish efforts of someone doing it just because she can. How
Seth Godin
#60. My mom kind of led me toward acting. She wanted to be an actress when she was younger. That made me interested in it when I was a kid, because she and I are very close.
Stephen Colbert
#61. She [my mother] struggled, abusing alcohol for quite some time, and so we just kind of drifted apart. I went to college. But I dedicate the book to her because she is the true champion of the family. She kept our family together. She provided us with a roof over our head. She always worked.
Hope Solo
#62. They all yelled in excitement. Tamara yelled because she was happy. Aaron yelled because he liked it when other people were happy, and Call yelled because he was sure they were going to die.
Cassandra Clare
#63. When I began to study baby delivery, when I was about to have a baby, I became very into it and fascinated and what our body does and how a mother's body temperature will rise the minute that the baby touches her chest because she needs to get warmer.
Lennon Parham
#64. This was the first one who watched me, listened, and got it. And walked out. Not because she wasn't interested. Not because she was playing a game. It was because she understood me. She was the only one.
Kate Morgenroth
#65. Her face, which had never seemed especially remarkable, looked almost beautiful, because she looked so happy.
Jeanne DuPrau
#66. She had been beaten down by too many boys and men, too much hurt and poverty and fear. This was what Mala was destined to become, someone who ran from her attackers because she couldn't afford to anger them. She wouldn't do it.
Cory Doctorow
#67. Just because she tried to eat us doesn't mean she was wrong
Jesse Petersen
#68. One woman told me that every time she wears Lanvin, men fall in love with her. Another told me she wore Lanvin to face her husband's lawyer because she felt protected. If I can make men fall in love with women and if I can protect women, I think I can die peacefully.
Alber Elbaz
#69. I tasted perfection, like a Lindt chocolate with all that soft and tasty core. I wasn't sure what flavor would be "perfection," but it didn't matter because she wasn't a fucking a chocolate ball. In that moment, she wasn't even Emma, she was mine
Morgan Parker
#70. But I remain with Rennie because she too is stubborn, because love requires us to stubbornly imperil each other, to demand that which can't be given and to go on demanding it. Every romance is a war of philosophies; the stakes are the romance itself. And if one person wins, it's all over.
Robert Cohen
#71. For me, Robbie Williams was a massive influence when I was growing up. But also Cheryl Cole. Being in her presence was intimidating, because she's so hot.
Louis Tomlinson
#72. I used to have a sister, but I never got to meet her because she died after two days, I think. So if I got a tattoo, it would probably have to be something to do with my sister.
Chloe Grace Moretz
#73. It's stupid, but I kept thinking I owed it to her
to Anne Frank, I mean
because she was dead and I wasn't, because she had stayed quiet and kept the blind drawn and done everything right and still died ...
John Green
#74. You can like an immoral character because she's interesting, not because you want to have her over for dinner.
Gillian Flynn
#75. She couldn't have told you whether it was because she was afraid, or because such a voice in the darkness seemed of necessity a boon; but she listened to him as she had never listened before; his words dropped deep into her soul.
Henry James
#76. The Baudelaires were sad to see a framed photograph of a kind-looking man with a handful of crackers in one hand and his lips pursed as if he were whistling. It was Ike, and the Baudelaires knew that she had placed his photograph there because she was too sad to look at it.
Lemony Snicket
#77. Eunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she could not read or write.
Ruth Rendell
#78. For 'Iron Man' I had to improv with Robert Downey Jr., which is like going up against LeBron in basketball. At one point he stopped and said, 'Can we give a round of applause to Olivia, because she's rocking it right now.'
Olivia Munn
#79. You call her a Bitch,
Because she throws attitude?
Gentlemen, You need to Grow up!
Try to be modest in Her Eyes,
Not a disgust in Her Insights!
Qalandar Nawaz
#80. My overwhelming memory of being a child is the huge amount of love I felt for my mum. She was my everything, because she was both my mum and my dad.
Gerard Butler
#81. A man doesn't recognize his own wife. Because she's happy.
Delia Ephron
#82. Alice: Is it because she's successful?
Dan: No. It's because... she doesn't need me.
Patrick Marber
#83. In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged. I also had the distinction of being the only altar boy knocked down by a priest during mass.
Bruce Springsteen
#84. Now he had her full attention. Not only because she wanted to know what had happened, but because anyone who'd get up at two in the morning to smack a melon in the dark deserved attention. Perhaps even medical attention.
Louise Penny
#85. Think of a ballet dancer at the barre. Plie, eleve, battement tendu. She is practicing, because she knows that there is no difference between practice and art. The practice is the art.
Dani Shapiro
#86. Gwen thinks Lazar disrespected her because she's black. And look I mean you're aware of my policy when it comes to that kind of situation."
"Your policy is 'What do I know about being black?'"
"What do I know about being black? ...
Michael Chabon
#87. Now, why would a dead girl lie?
Hey! That sounds like a joke. Why would a dead girl lie? Answer: Because she can't stand up.
Jay Asher
#88. When you love a flower", he said, as if wishing to explain his altered experience, "and suddenly she is gone, everything vanishes with her. I lived because she lived. Now she is gone. Without her, I am nothing.
Vaddey Ratner
#89. I could watch her dance for hours,
Because she's always dancing inside of my heart.
Tanzy Sayadi
#90. I personally love J.Lo because she's a fashion icon and I love her music.
Jessica Sanchez
#91. Our society loves raw character; we love raw women. We don't love our mother because she is hot and sexy: we love our mother because she is our mother. We love our granny because she is our granny. We value her. We don't remember anyone's face from our childhood; we love our granny's face.
Kangana Ranaut
#92. She was like him, trying to embrace the moon while making her way in the world through instinct and drive that came only from within, because she had only herself.
Victor Robert Lee
#93. A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man, because she is an instrument of pleasure.
Victor Hugo
#94. And I loved the girl precisely because she existed, and I was happy, not envious, that she existed.
Umberto Eco
#95. Ruby put her arms around her, but because she could not hold air, the child walked inside of her body, curled there and settled into her womb.
Cynthia Bond
#96. I knew that I would make her mine - needed to make her mine. Not just for tonight. No, one night would never do. I want her everyday, I want her every night, because she fucking owns me.
R.C. Martin
#97. I'm not saying my mother-in-law is fat - because she is of reasonable size, and I care about her and her self-image.
Bernard Manning
#98. I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted because she didn't think we were going to be able to live on army pay. She didn't want to have to get a job, so she decided to put me to work, and that's how I got started in the movies.
Karolyn Grimes
#99. I'm sorry Elena. I know that you want to help, but put yourself in her shoes, everything that happened tonight was to save you and that's OK because she loves you so much. But somehow she's always the one who gets hurt.
L.J.Smith
#100. Because she was a blank mural and you wrote all over her.
Jasmine Sandozz
