The Way We Were Elizabeth Noble Quotes

#1. In her present ignorance, woman's religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles ofright and justice, has made her bondage but more certain and lasting, her degradation more hopeless and complete.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#2. but i was young, and i got so cross. in the early days we made up easily. had fun making up, in fact.

Elizabeth Noble

#3. i'm not sure either of them had a great capacity for love, that was all. it's funny - mine feels bottomless.

Elizabeth Noble

#4. She was a tall woman with big bones and a noble face, dark eyebrows and a neatly folded jowl. She would have made a distinguished-looking man and, sometimes, wearing evening dress, looked like some famous general in drag.

Elizabeth Taylor

#5. Death before Decaf!

Elizabeth Noble

#6. Birth, like love, is an energy and a process, happening within a relationship. Both unfold with their own timing, with a uniqueness that can never be anticipated, with a power that can never be controlled, but with an exquisite mystery to be appreciated.

Elizabeth Noble

#7. mum's dress. mum loved big parties. she loved dressing up and champagne bubbles tickling her nose, and dancing with her arms above her head, shoes thrown to the edges of the dance floor, and shouting inane happy things at people.

Elizabeth Noble

#8. and there you go - i was alone, without love, for eight years. and it took me about twenty minutes - over a cappuchino and an egg salad sandwich - to fall in love with him.

Elizabeth Noble

#9. you're my first born child, and the person who first showed me the miracle of this love a mother has for her child.

Elizabeth Noble

#10. amanda lifted a large handful of pictures out of the box and dropped them into her lap, flicking through them as they fall. they told a thousand stories, didn't they? the pictures of your life. but they left a lot out, too.

Elizabeth Noble

#11. and even if he knew the answer, he would keep on doing this. because, the thing was, he loved her. he couldn't walk away if he wanted to.

Elizabeth Noble

#12. Because parents are transients in the maternity care system, there is little cumulative birth experience over successive generations of mothers. Women giving birth don't make the same mistakes as their mothers or grandmothers-they make new ones.

Elizabeth Noble

#13. The cracks in your heart are there so the light can shine through.

Elizabeth Noble

#14. It couldn't last of course. They both knew it. Not the evening, Not the holiday.

Elizabeth Noble

#15. They're called cliches because they're true, you know. Besides, life is quite complicated enough...

Elizabeth Noble

#16. There should be friendship vows. Did you ever think that? When you get married, you promise all that stuff - in sickness and in health, for richer and for poorer... But you do that when you're friends, too, don't you? The thick and thin stuff.

Elizabeth Noble

#17. life's too short, after all, isn't it? not to do the things you want - the things that make you happy? hannah had been thinking that quite a lot t. oday

Elizabeth Noble

#18. Adulthood isn't black and white - it's a thousand shades of grey. Or taupe. It's not who you are, it's where you are.

Elizabeth Noble

#19. when she was younger, hannah liked to feel sad, so long as it was artifical sad' that was what she called it when the sadness was about something that wasn't real

Elizabeth Noble

#20. You women are all the same. You worry about the wrinkles and the half stone and your boobs dropping, but you don't worry about the sparkle, and that's the best bit. You shouldn't let that go.

Elizabeth Noble

#21. Why was it that, sometimes, you needed to see people closest to you as others saw them to remember how fantastic they were? Why couldn't you always remember that?

Elizabeth Noble

#22. could i have loved you better? maybe. if that's true, then i'm sorry. could i have loved you more? i don't think it's possible.

Elizabeth Noble

#23. Like sisters throughout time, whatever battles raged between them, it was always, always, all four of them against the rest of the world.

Elizabeth Noble

#24. You made new rules for the people you loved. They weren't subject to the same judgment criteria you reserved for the rest of the world. In some ways you were way easier on them, and in others, much harder.

Elizabeth Noble

#25. A real friend is one who helps us to think our best thoughts, do our noblest deeds, and be our finest selves.

Elizabeth George

#26. However much we know about birth in general, we know nothing about a particular birth. We must let it unfold with its own uniqueness.

Elizabeth Noble

#27. amanda thought about her addiction to being on the move. about whether she was running away or running toward.

Elizabeth Noble

#28. she was a person, jen, and people aren't perfect. and she wasn't perfect. and that's okay

Elizabeth Noble

#29. The GP, who she called immediately, fingers shaking as she dialled, exclaimed with joy. She didn't thinkdoctors were supposed to do that - register an emotional reaction to an outcome.

Elizabeth Noble

#30. ed. now. picking at the scab that was starting to heal over. why did guys do that? too little too late?

Elizabeth Noble

#31. what was she like? she loved him, really loved him then, for an instant. this, this was easier.

Elizabeth Noble

#32. I can't believe you came all this way, No one ever did anything like that for me before.' His eyes bored into her. 'No one ever loved you the way i love you, Susie.

Elizabeth Noble

#33. All honor to the noble women that have devoted earnest lives to the intellectual needs of mankind!

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#34. Don't." His voice was harsh. "Don't do that." She exhaled.
"You're lovely. Lovelier than before.

Elizabeth Noble