Madwoman Quotes

#1. It never failed - I'd buy a new journal, write like a madwoman for ten pages, then lose total interest in the process. Three months later, I'd start the whole process all over again. I think I just liked buying new notebooks.

MaryJanice Davidson

#2. I wasn't just the madwoman in the attic
I was the attic itself. The past was all over me, all under me, all inside me.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#3. It's not the bloody carrots that upset me. It's having them sneaked into my food by a madwoman who addresses the cutlery as Mr and Mrs Fork.

Jojo Moyes

#4. But Holly the gun-toting, wild-haired madwoman of the night before was in there somewhere, I knew. It made me look upon her with fond affection.

Jonathan Stroud

#5. Is it every former madwoman's worst nightmare to be thought crazy when she isn't?

Nancy Horan

#6. I sometimes think if I did not write I would be a madwoman. Now I am a sane woman with a lot of mad pages.

Kendall Hailey

#7. When I wake up in the morning I often find messages left to me on my phone. Then I read the messages and I suspect that I'm being stalked by a madwoman. And I am. That madwoman is me. The calls are coming from inside the house. Some

Jenny Lawson

#8. I open the door to my cottage these evenings on a silence so thick it falls upon me like a blanket. Of all the lonely moments of my day, this is the loneliest. I confess I have sometimes been reduced to muttering my thoughts aloud like a madwoman when the need for a human voice becomes too strong.

Geraldine Brooks

#9. Nothing is more likely to start me screaming like a madwoman than New York in February with its piles of blackened snow full of yellow holes drilled by dogs.

Florence King

#10. I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.

Claire Danes

#11. No one wants to get too close to a madwoman. Or men who have monkeys for pets.

Victoria Alexander

#12. I would let the whole town think I'm a madwoman and a murderer, let it scorn and reject me, let its children compose hateful rhymes to be sung whilst jumping rope.

Cherie Priest

#13. Turning fifty is an entirely different matter altogether. At fifty, the madwoman in the attic breaks loose, stomps down the stairs, and sets fire to the house. She won't be imprisoned anymore,

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#14. And so I've written everything down, too afraid of my demons and what they may say, the doubt that eats at me from the inside. Too afraid that I'll forget and it'll all be a madwoman's dream.

Nadege Richards

#15. There are so many artists who get to my age that get comfortable and just stick in a groove, and I really don't want to do that.

Paul Weller

#16. Most great plays of the past lose their grip on immediacy; on application to our lives right now.

Mike Nichols

#17. One day offices will be a thing of the past

Richard Branson

#18. A thousand fools believe a lie, and it's good as truth.

Joan Slonczewski

#19. IQ is a measure, to some degree, of innate ability. But social savvy is knowledge. It's a set of skills that have to be learned. It has to come from somewhere, and the place where we seem to get these kinds of attitudes and skills is from our families.

Malcolm Gladwell

#20. My favorite film is Gene Tierney and Tyrone Power in The Razor's Edge.

Terence Stamp

#21. Why should I need a prescription to spit into a vial and get my DNA read? Why can't I get my own blood drawn without a doctor's permission? It's my blood.

Anne Wojcicki

#22. Make love to me. Make me forget my name, while you make me scream yours...

D.D. Lorenzo

#23. My grand point in preaching is to break the hard heart, and to heal the broken one.

John Newton