Virago Modern Quotes & Sayings

I was inspired to write this book by those who are sceptical of the power of freedom to change the world. — Natan Sharansky

I have such admiration for Whoopi Goldberg as an actress and a general smart person. — Susan Isaacs

It awoke something in her, to see someone so kind and giving, so full-hearted, and yet so lost, so wretchedly bent on his own destruction. She had left home, ashamed of herself and the fury she'd caused, but now the prospect of love didn't seem like such a dangerous thing at all. He — Leslie Parry

I'm a major feminist. There's a real politic in life, where I've been in rooms where real decisions are made, and it's a lot of powerful white men. There are women in those rooms, but not as many as there should be. — Courtney Love

But you will imagine that it is best that He should at once enable you to see clearly. If it is, you may be sure He will do it. He never makes mistakes. But He often deals far differently with His disciples. He lets them grope their way in the dark until they fully learn how blind they are, how helpless, how absolutely in need of Him. What His methods will be with you I cannot foretell. But you may be sure that He never works in an arbitrary way. He has a reason for everything He does. You may not understand why He leads you now in this way and now in that, but you may, nay, you must believe that perfection is stamped on His every act. — Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

This story is very simple, although it could have been very complicated. Also, it's incomplete, because stories like this don't have an ending. — Roberto Bolano

Whatever you know in your heart, live at the expense of anything else. — John De Ruiter

As far as I can tell, life's just one flaming piece of shit after another, except when it's a bunch of them all at once. But — Daniel Abraham