Quotes about Austen

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How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be thin is up — Kathryn Hurn, HELL HEAVEN & IN-BETWEEN: One Woman's Journey to Finding Love
Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does. — Jane Austen, Emma
Seriously, a thirty-something woman shouldn't be daydreaming about a fictional character in a two-hundred-year-old world — Shannon Hale
For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express — Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
Allegra's Austen wrote about the impact of financial need on the intimate lives of women. If she'd worked in a bookstore — Karen Joy Fowler, The Jane Austen Book Club
What could she have done? She was a heroine, and with that came certain obligations. — Emily C.A. Snyder, Nachtstürm Castle: A Gothic Austen Novel
Such a narrative as this demands some sort of physical consolation for its spiritual tribulation. Our heroine received i — Emily C.A. Snyder, Nachtstürm Castle: A Gothic Austen Novel
Another strike of lightening – now accompanied by the deep-bellied rumble, and the horse reared, incidentally setting He — Emily C.A. Snyder, Nachtstürm Castle: A Gothic Austen Novel
You will be interested to hear, Hilary, that it [the drug] had a most remarkable effect — even on Selena after a very mo — Sarah Caudwell, The Shortest Way to Hades
But neither could compare with the gargantuan natural edifice that was the mountain upon which Nachtstürm Castle rose. I — Emily C.A. Snyder, Nachtstürm Castle: A Gothic Austen Novel
He shortly found himself arrived at politics — and from politics it was an easy step to silence.
Her [Mrs Croft's] manners were open, easy, and decided, like one who had no distrust of herself, and no doubts of what t — Jane Austen, Persuasion
Like Wollstonecraft, Austen rejects the notion that ‘man was made to reason, woman to feel.’ Perhaps Austen was tired of — Emily Auerbach
(on the portrayal of women in literature) Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has b — the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
The conversation soon turned upon fishing, and she heard Mr. Darcy invite him, with the greatest civility, to fish there — Jane Austen
I always find that after reading books written by Jane Austen that I speak much more properly, at least for a while. — Becky Watson
I cannot say much for this Monarch's Sense--Nor would I if I could, for he was a Lancastrian. I suppose you know all abo — Jane Austen
My dear, dear aunt,' she rapturously cried, what delight! what felicity! You give me fresh life and vigour. Adieu to dis — Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Every line, every word was -- in the hackneyed metaphor which their dear writer, were she here, would forbid -- a dagger — Jane Austen, Sense And Sensibility
But some characters in books are really real--Jane Austen's are; and I know those five Bennets at the opening of Pride a — Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle