Top 31 Contemporary Women S Fiction Quotes
#1. THE HONEYEATER story was mesmerizing: the story took hold of me and I felt compelled to write it. I was also inspired by a few female authors (among them, Doris Lessing and Isabel Allende) I've admired over the years
women who preceded me and who gave me the courage to even begin.
Yolanda A. Reid
#2. Self-growth does not always mean that we've changed. It means that we've stopped listening to what others say we 'ought' to be doing and finally live our lives according to our own values.
Anthea Syrokou
#3. A writer looks at an issue and asks, 'What if this were to occur? Or what if that was thrown into the mix? What would that look like?
Venita Ellick
#4. Innocence invites protection, yet we might be smarter to protect ourselves against it ...
Megan Johns
#5. It was almost as if she had willed him into existence, into standing before her at the precise moment she was willing to accommodate him, arriving not a minute too early or too late.
Roy L. Pickering Jr.
#6. I have to tell you hon, I don't mind a little teasing now and then, but I'm no masochist and I'm sure as hell no saint ... here lately, being around you is agony.
Jackson Broussard
#8. People vote for whom they believe will be the best president and representative for our country. The First Lady is not on the ballot.
Venita Ellick
#9. Me having a stalker is like Donald Trump having a sense of humility. It's not a match.
~From LIBERTY & MEANS
Kristin Dow
#10. Humph! A text message that said, 'What's up, sexy?' You call that setting a mood? Love making takes place long before the bedroom -
N. Wood Lane
#11. Rumor has it: when you marry a Walsh you are set for life. Only one thing can screw it up.
Jessica Gordon
#12. ...forever meant different things to people at different times. They could imagine what infinity looked and felt like as much as they wanted, but could never truly grasp its meaning nor bear its full weight.
Roy L. Pickering Jr.
#13. Nothing felt better to him than the act of waiting for her. As long as he believed it wasn't in vain, he was able to justify his presence.
Roy L. Pickering Jr.
#14. I wanted to be ready.
I had thought I was ready.
I really believed I was ready.
That is, until the milk came.
Kathryn Michaels
#15. For some reason, people try to fill you with food when you're filled with grief. I didn't need food. I needed a reason to keep living
Priscille Sibley
#16. If a woman were elected president, would our nation expect her husband to be the official White House host?
Venita Ellick
#18. We're all princes and princesses, at 5, 50, or 100! It's never too late, we're never too old to rock the world and contribute! Reaching for intimacy in all relationships? Delicious.
Pamela Taeuffer
#19. So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.
Donna Leon
#20. I'm making out with a dead girl in my dreams. I'm screwing women I have no business screwing. I'm pushing away the one person who actually gives a damn about me. It's like the Bermuda Triangle of heartache and I'm sinking fast.
Faith Sullivan
#21. Sarah, I'm going to take care of you whether you like it or not.
Robyn Carr
#22. My mother clutches at the collar of my shirt. I rub her back and feel her tears on my neck. It's been decades since our bodies have been this close. It's an odd sensation, like a torn ligament knitting itself back, lumpy and imperfect, usable as long as we know not to push it too hard.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#23. Most of my writer friends are women, and they're all extremely talented, so of course I think the state of contemporary fiction for women is pretty great. Which is to say there is a ton of amazing work out there. These women are writing hard. There's much to be said. We're on it, chief.
Jami Attenberg
#24. If a woman chooses to support her husband and become First Lady, I believe she must do so with the understanding that the public expects the full-meal deal.
Venita Ellick
#25. You are you because you love the way the world looks through your camera. You are you because of the way you love your friends and family. Not because some scar is on your body. That's a part of your history and what helps form what you believe in. not what defines you.
A.M. Willard
#26. Is a First Lady truly a necessity? Shouldn't each wife of a president have a right to choose to accept the position or not?
Venita Ellick
#27. And although he recognized that tenderness was not the same as passion, and certainly not equivalent to love, for now it seemed to him a suitable substitute.
Roy L. Pickering Jr.
#28. Before novels written by women were relegated to their own 'genre,' I was introduced to Jane Smiley by a dear professor who raised my awareness of what female authors were bringing to the table of contemporary fiction.
Emma McLaughlin
#29. Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life."
Patricia Briggs.
Demetra Angelis Foustanellas
#30. His fierce appreciation of female beauty, the unrelenting desire he felt for their company, the pleasure he both derived and sought to give, had led him in and out of quite a few bedroom doors.
Roy L. Pickering Jr.
#31. Most people surrendered fairy tale hopes in exchange for cookie cutter lives
Roy L. Pickering Jr.
