Sunday, January 18, 2015

Great Quotes: All Roads Lead to Austen: A Year-long Journey with Jane (Smith)

"I love teaching because I love learning, and none of us is a finished product." (301)
#education

"Believable happiness - that's what's in store for Austen's protagonists." (299)

"The landscapes of your life are the people around you." (284)
#people

"True democracy depends on an educated public." (254)
#education

"Thank God for anyone who'll fight for the right to sit down with a good book - and then, the right to sit down with some good friends and that good book."  (147)
#books

"Austen gave value to something that was undervalued - the daily lives of women, the things that mattered to them." (104) #women

"Even the most ordinary women's lives have a touch of magic." (78)
#women

"We don't find love when we're looking for it, you know. That's not how it works.  Love finds us." (57)
#love


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