Blanche Willis Howard (July 20, 1847 – October 7, 1898) (aka Blanche Willis Howard von Teuffel) was a best-selling American novelist who lived most of her productive years in southern Germany.
We are not here in this world to drift like seaweed. Whatever intelligence we have, it is our duty to drive to the utmost.
how often I longed to lovingly administer release!. . . to have the courage and the right, after the soul is fled, to stop the poor wretched machine, that exists only to suffer and cause suffering.
writing, like living, is lonely work.
Men tell us we are womanly when we love but once. Men! They have told us a lot of things to make life comfortable for themselves.
It is a low thing to always want to be understood. Let my innocence take care of itself.
A horse to one who loves him is a cure for many ills.
Hatshepsut
Richard Cornuelle
Nelsan Ellis
Romain Rolland
Michael Monroe
Rafael Soriano
Stephen Smale
Alpha Conde
Robert Trujillo
Diane von Furstenberg
Naomie Harris
Dallas Campbell