Jane Austen Quotes

You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.

Jane Austen

Quotes to Explore

I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.

Barbara Kingsolver
- People
- Work
- Live
The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.

Gail Collins
- Men
- Women
- American
I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I'm a board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation.

Ted Danson
- World
- Organization
- Ocean
People who don't know me look at my world as something very hard-core, and I don't feel it that way. It's not what attracts me.

Raf Simons
- People
- World
- Way
The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.

Frances Farmer
- School
- True
- Pretty
An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.

E. F. Schumacher
- Life
- World
- Single