The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women [antikvár]

Notes to the Reader "Traversing a slow page, to come upon a lode of the pure shining metal is to exult inwardly for greedy hours." Kathleen Norris, "Beauty in Letters," These I Like Best (1941) User's Guide You, the reader, have been very much a part of my life for all the years I've been reading and collecting these quotations. I have often imagined your delight, your shock, your burst of laughter, your "aha!" or your sigh as you found words that you yourself would have said had you just thought of them in time. If you find only half as much pleasure here as I have imagined for you, you will have a very good time indeed. You can enter this collection of ideas, feelings, and brilliantly worked words in three ways. If you are looking for a quotation by a specific woman, use the name index in the back of the book. If you need a quotation on a specific subject, the subject and key line index in the back of the book or the alphabetically arranged topic headings and numerous cross-references in the body of the book will help you find what you need. If you are the third seeker, the browser, you need no further help. However, with you in mind, quotations have been arranged under topic headings in essay-like fashion for your reading pleasure. Quotations were selected for their memorability, their original use of language, their brevity, their ability to shatter conventional patterns of speech or thought, and their potential usefulness to readers needing quotations for speaking and writing. Although some quotations are included because they belong to the canon of the familiar, others bring you unfamiliar words by familiar women (and vice versa), while thousands of others appear for the first time in a collection of quotations (approximately eighty percent of the quotations in this book appear in no other collection). The date that follows a book title is generally the date of first publication; in some cases this