Top 100 Her Own Quotes
#1. Any successful black person will have to face suspicion within his or her own community about his or her loyalty to other blacks.
Randall Kennedy
#2. Every woman likes her own way, but no woman can endure to see another woman master even over a man who does not concern her.
Richard Jefferies
#3. Dean Swift proposed to tax beauty, and to leave every lady to rate her own charms; he said the tax would be cheerfully paid and very productive.
Arthur Frederick Saunders
#4. An accusing heart couldn't see her own sins.
Toba Beta
#5. My hope is that each of the villains I write will have his or her own motivation that readers can understand, whether they agree or disagree.
Cullen Bunn
#6. Of course. Opal is toying with our emotions for her own gratification. Nothing more. She wishes to place herself in a position of power, emotionally.
Eoin Colfer
#7. Adults don't know how to respect and really love their young ones. Often love is confused with possession. You say "this is my" about your child, without taking into account that you're dealing with a real person with his/her own personality, rights, and autonomy, even when very young.
Dacia Maraini
#8. Her Quaker instincts led her to apologize for wrongs not her own to minimize conflict.
Joyce Carol Oates
#9. As well as being a vulgar producer of her own spectacle, and an embarrassment to her family, Cindy Sheehan is at best a shifty fantasist.
Christopher Hitchens
#10. As the carriage bumped her bones along the dark country lanes, Martha decided that if she ever got back to her own time she would write a book called 'Travel in the Edwardian Era. It would be a short book - OUCH in capital letters followed by fifty pages of bad language.
Stephen Cole
#11. Someone who surprises me, someone who makes me laugh, and someone who has her own life and wants to share that with me. I hate those relationships where someone is just following the other person around, you know?
Diego Luna
#12. The more woman aims for personal identity and autonomy ... the fiercer will be her struggle with nature - that is, with the intractable physical laws of her own body. And the more nature will punish her: 'Do not dare to be free! For your body does not belong to you.'
Camille Paglia
#13. Ms. Whitlock is lost in her own world as she continues babbling about poem interpretations and people who died too long ago.
Katie McGarry
#14. Each of us has his or her own distinct personality. But overlaid on top of that are tendencies and assumptions and reflexes handed down to us by the history of the community we grew up in, and those differences are extraordinarily specific.
Malcolm Gladwell
#15. The tide of her exhilaration drained from her, leaving her exhausted and heartsick. She would have bound the entire city, made them all into her golems, to satisfy her own need to be useful.
Helene Wecker
#16. The queen straightened her back and tilted her head back ever so slightly, giving power to her husband's troops through her own regality.
Samantha Wilcoxson
#17. Sneaking was a kind of deceit. So was disguise. Just past midnight, wearing dark trousers and Fox's hood, the queen snuck out of her own rooms and stepped into a world of stories and lies.
Kristin Cashore
#18. Recall that Hillary Clinton was all for toppling [Moammar] Gadhafi then didn't listen to her own people on the ground. And then of course, when she lied about the terrorist attack in Benghazi, she invited more terrorist attacks.
Carly Fiorina
#19. The mother must socialize her daughter to become subordinate to men, and if her daughter challenges patriarchal norms, the mother is likely to defend the patriarchal structures against her own daughters.
Carol P. Christ
#20. I convinced her that her first loyalty isn't to other people, but to her own feelings.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#21. But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she's the one I've watered.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#22. She was simply Asha, a woman on her own. Had the situation been otherwise, she might not have come to know her own brain.
Katherine Boo
#23. She was forced to face how cold and unlike her fantasy her own marriage was? Or did she suddenly just get tired of living this long-ass life? Joella
Dennis Lehane
#24. A beautiful woman always has her own place in everyman's heart.
M.F. Moonzajer
#25. As far as I'm concerned, Cate Blanchett is a goddess, but she's really down to earth. She's got all those Oscars, she's made all those amazing films and she could spend her whole life doing that, but what does she also do? She gives birth to three boys and creates her own theatre in Sydney.
Sylvester McCoy
#26. The strangest thing was, as beautiful as I found her to be, she admitted that she wasn't always comfortable in her own skin. I found that hard to believe until she explained herself. All of the sudden I was not so much in awe of her but found myself empathizing with her.
Michele Jennae
#27. Lyra had to adjust to her new sense of her own story, and that couldn't be done in a day.
Philip Pullman
#28. What is the best way to write? Each of us has to discover her own way by writing. Writing teaches writing. No one can tell you your own secret.
Gail Sher
#29. Oh, I know!" Safi clapped her hands, delighted by her own genius. "I shall call you Un-empressed."
"Please," Vaness said coldly, "stop this immediately."
Safi absolutely did not.
Susan Dennard
#30. Seraphina had found nothing but an end, she thought, a horribly easy end to pain. Her own wouldn't be easy, because she would have to live with it. Live without Michael. And finally accept that she would live without her dream.
Nora Roberts
#31. The United States, knowing no distinction of her own citizens on account of religion or nationality, naturally believes in a civilization the world over which will secure the same universal laws.
Ulysses S. Grant
#32. Macey couldn't decide whether to be intrigued that Hale was walking around with a state-of-the-art covert communications device or be jealous because she'd been caught without one of her own.
Ally Carter
#33. He was like a lion, eager to feed but still stalking his prey. He didn't want to scare her off. But she was helpless in her own desire for him.
Sylvain Reynard
#34. How do you destroy a devil to save an angel who's torn out her own eyes to believe in only his whispered deceit in her ears?
Bishop Harber
#35. She was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity; and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized with any change for the better, it required several hours to give sedateness to her spirits, or any degree of tranquillity to her heart.
Jane Austen
#36. It would not be going too far to assert that ... conflict confronts every woman who ventures upon a career of her own and who is ... unwilling to pay for her daring with the renunciation of her femininity.
Karen Horney
#37. The way I see it, putting your faith in God is something that each person has gotta come to on his or her own.It's your own personal relationship with Him; a bond that's as unique as a fingerprint.
Bethany Hamilton
#38. We're all attracted to the perfume of fermenting joy, we've all tried to start a fire, and one day maybe it will blaze up on its own. In the meantime, she is the one today among us most able to bear the idea of her own beauty ...
Tony Hoagland
#39. Can you drown in grief? She turned away sharply, angry with her own frailty. She had no time for the luxury of self-pity.
George R R Martin
#40. and life, seeing her own image, was still, and dared not to speak.
Oscar Wilde
#41. No one could leave the group by his or her own volition and put the group at risk of having its secrets revealed.
Judith Spencer
#42. It was more like a form of claustrophobia
a dread of exchanging the freedom of her own self-imposed routine for the inescapable burden of somebody else's.
Jan Struther
#43. She could withstand his hunger because of her own.
April Vine
#44. It reminded her too, time and again, of her own susceptibility to panic and her unfathomable dread of being alone.
Richard Yates
#45. What do you mean, Phib? asked Miss Squeers, looking in her own little glass, where, like most of us, she saw - not herself, but the reflection of some pleasant image in her own brain.
Charles Dickens
#46. An also, from the opposite perspective, it can be quite disappointing, when the one you want to share your life with will not share very much of his or her own life with you. The person who will not share their past is unlikely to see you in their future.
Love Professor - to Jennifer
Jennifer Cox
#47. No girl is ever happy with her own hair, is she?
Anita Diamant
#48. Cameron Diaz is probably my biggest beauty mentor of my friends. She knows how to do her own hair and makeup; she's really good at it.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#49. But if I am to speak in earnest, what I desire above all in a wife is firmness of character - a woman who knows her own mind." --Captain Frederick Wentworth
Jane Austen
#50. Sometimes, ridiculously, the more perfect he was the angrier she got, as if his generosity existed only to highlight her own selfishness.
Jodi Picoult
#51. All the action adventure girls have red hair," he said. "Whenever it is an independent girl, not a sidekick person, when she has her own mind or does as good as the guys, she has red hair.
Marion Roach
#52. Janelle Monae, she has her own style, and it's specifically hers.
Zendaya
#53. I'd like to sit down with Hillary Clinton onstage and ask her about Glass Steagall and all the big banks and her own campaign contributions.
Eileen Myles
#54. I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.
Catherine Helen Spence
#55. Her own terror rushed upon me, and in that moment of fear, - the most terrible fear a man can experience, - I knew that in inexpressible ways she was dear to me.
Jack London
#56. We say very little, for we do not need to. We are silent together, each in her own world, knowing the other is just at her back.
Tracy Chevalier
#57. She'd subjugate her own wants and needs to suit him. Same old Chelsea.
Samanthe Beck
#58. She could hear in the darkness of her car how his breathing was quicker now; and her own was, too. She wanted to say their hears were too old for this now; you can't keep doing this to a heart, can't keep expecting your heart to pull through.
Elizabeth Strout
#59. Don't fuck it up. She's independent and she's been doing on her own for so long she'll never be the girl to tell you how much she needs you. But she'll show you how much she wants this. I've known her since we were twelve, and you're it for her.
Christina Lauren
#60. She wondered whether the books she loved consoled her precisely because they were the manifestations of her own isolation.
Rachel Cusk
#61. A woman whose life is involved in the righteous rearing of her children has a better chance of keeping up her spirits than the woman whose total concern is centered in her own personal problems.
Ezra Taft Benson
#62. She, at least, ought to have known that he was wearing a mask, and having found that out, she should have torn it from his face, whenever they were alone together ... Her love for him had been paltry and weak, easily crushed by her own pride
Emmuska Orczy
#63. One of my favorite times of year is around Christmas when my entire family gets together and we make tamales together. It's a full two-day event, and we create an assembly line. It's awesome because everyone has his or her own part in making the dish. It's so much fun.
Sabrina Bryan
#64. She invented her own language to say what everyone else could only feel.
Hannah Kent
#65. Every man, woman, and child on this earth is a wandering pilgrim in his or her own way - each searching for a belonging place. That sense of belonging is found only as we care for one another.
Seth Adam Smith
#66. I am very good at my job, Miss Rousseau. I was told to find Samantha Rousseau, and I have. The duchess' reasons are her own." He shrugged. "Of course, falconry is a large sport in our country. Perhaps it has something to do with that.
Nichole Chase
#67. A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty,
'Who am I, and what do I want out of life?' She mustn't
feel selfish and neurotic if she wants goals of her own,
outside of husband and children.
Betty Friedan
#68. They talked in the car always, he trying to find the key to her own ignition behind the hooded eyes, she sitting back of the right-hand steering wheel and talking, talking, nothing but MG-words, inanimate-words he couldn't really talk back at. Soon
Thomas Pynchon
#69. The world lies in the hands of those that have the courage to dream and who take the risk of living out their dreams - each according to his or her own talent.
Paulo Coelho
#70. Finally, here at home, in one of her first decisions as Secretary of State, she set up a private e-mail server in her basement in violation of our national security. Let's face the facts: Hillary Clinton cared more about protecting her own secrets than she cared about protecting America's secrets.
Chris Christie
#71. Every woman is unique and enigmatic in her own way. One can never understand women thoroughly.
Shaine Lake
#72. Mainly, she lived. She got on with the small acts of life. She continued to ensure that - in the phrase she always used inside her own head - she got away with it. No one found her out.
Maggie O'Farrell
#73. Vivian was an eccentric who not only marched to her own drummer but was usually the drum major of the crazy parade
Jenn McKinlay
#74. She soars on her own wings.
Socrates
#75. Let any lady who is inclined to be hard on Mrs. Cadwallader inquire into the comprehensiveness of her own beautiful views, and be quite sure that they afford accommodation for all the lives which have the honor to coexist with hers. With
George Eliot
#76. Margaret Thatcher was beyond argument a great Prime Minister. Her tragedy is that she may be remembered less for the brilliance of her many achievements than for the recklessness with which she later sought to impose her own increasingly uncompromising views.
Geoffrey Howe
#77. This girl at 17 really led an army, this girl at 19 really burned at the stake by her own choice. And you sit there and you want to figure out why did she make these choices? How did she live such a life?
Leelee Sobieski
#78. My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
Erica Jong
#79. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
Paulo Coelho
#80. Vanessa Rey chose the words for her own headstone, taking her theme from the Bhagavad Gita. "Certain is death, for the living, certain is life, for the dead." Think about that.
Mike Carey
#81. Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own books.
Erik Larson
#83. Flattery is a foolish suicide; she destroys herself with her own hands.
Edward Gibbon
#84. 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
#85. Ladies and gentlemen, it is not the job of government to be the national nanny. The average citizen can look after his or her own needs without assistance from somebody who works here in Washington.
Tom Clancy
#86. Man has been woman's image of capability
Now is the time for her to bring about her own strength
Neil Mach
#87. She had her own opinions on every subject, and kept steadily to them
very tiresome opinions they often were; as she was always thinking of what was right and what was wrong, and had a strange reverence for matters connected with religion, and an unaccountable liking to good people.
Emily Bronte
#88. All of a sudden, she was enveloped by a kind of vertigo
she had felt this sensation before, though she could not remember when. It was a feeling of being not herself, of being trapped in the wrong body, as if she had recently been miscast in a play that was her own life.
Reif Larsen
#89. Even as a child she had lived her own small life within herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life - that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.
Kate Chopin
#90. My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didn't always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have.
Amy Tan
#91. Boring, religious, and intellectually limited, Marie Leczinska was called one of the two dullest queens in Europe by her own father, the other dull queen being his wife. Marie
Eleanor Herman
#92. Beloved, she my daughter. She mine. See. She come back to me of her own free will and I don't have to explain a thing.
Toni Morrison
#93. Each individual makes a unique selection of ideas fit a certain action for his or her own reasons. I can listen, suggest, offer alternatives, but the final choice must be yours alone.
C.N. Lesley
#94. Teach children tolerance. No one need surrender his or her own beliefs while extending tolerance to those with other beliefs.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#95. Baby, it's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows how poor that person is, it doesn't hurt you. So don't let Mrs Dubose get you down. She had enough troubles or her own.
Harper Lee
#96. Wisdom is a living stream, not an icon to be preserved in a museum. Only when a practitioner finds the spring of wisdom in his or her own life can it flow to a future generation
Nhat Hanh
#97. Nowhere can anyone find a # quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his or her own # soul . We need to turn some things down and turn some things off. We need to be # quiet .
Jeffrey R. Holland
#98. Evil working in subtler fashion; marriages that proved to be no more then legalized slavery, and the careful manipulation of a bright and sensitive mind until its owner truly believed with all her heart in her own worthlessness. Betrayal, not once, but many times over.
Mercedes Lackey
#99. So she was considering, in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.
Lewis Carroll
#100. And even though I adore the fact that Francesca has Ben's eyes, I also see now that her biological connection to us is irrelevant. She is her own little person. She is Francesca. If we weren't her "natural" parents, we would still have loved her just as much.
Liane Moriarty
