Virago Press Quotes & Sayings

Though I'm a congresswoman by title, a politician I've never been. — Michele Bachmann

There is something in omens. — Ovid

I wondered whether I could find a Great Perhaps here at all or whether I had made a grand miscalculation. — John Green

To me the biggest waste of time is commuting. First, there is no place that is less than a two-hour commute from New York. You can be half a mile outside of the city limits; you're two hours away by car. I don't care how close they tell you it is. "Oh, it's only thirty miles." Thirty miles? At 8:30 in the morning, thirty miles outside New York, you might as well be starting out in Omaha. — Fran Lebowitz

What would many happy citizens and trustworthy officials have become but unruly, stormy innovators and dreamers of useless dreams, if not for the effort of their schools? — Hermann Hesse

I don't think any war is worth having our soldiers killed. — Jessica Lynch