Quotes from Beverly Jenkins

To aspiring writers, I say : Don't give up. Storytelling has been an integral part of the human condition since the beginning of time. Don't let anyone tell you your dreams don't have value. They do.

Every day is a gift -- start unwrapping them.

Your sweetness is so much stronger than their hate.

Who're you supposed to be, Creflo Dollar's Mini-Me?

Because we can't tell others about our accomplishments if we don't know them ourselves.

You are the contrariest woman I have ever met." Hester snorted. "Contrariest. What kind of word is contrariest. French?" He grinned. "Be careful baby girl, I bite. I'll give you more French than you'll know what to do with.

You always this combative, Miss Wyatt?" "Not as a rule, no." "That's too bad. A combative woman is usually a passionate woman,

Hester thought about the political upheaval gripping the country and said, "These are serious times." "Yes, they are, which is why it's important to seek out humor and beauty whenever possible. If we don't, we'll all be buried beneath the weight of the misery.

Carry on, please. Women don't usually take a skillet to his head and I'm anxious to witness it,

There were undoubtedly worse things than being an unmarried woman in charge of her own life, free to come and go as she pleased, free to explore pleasure.

Pirate thoughts.

A man is only as strong as the woman who holds him.

As he'd noted before, the decision to cross the color line had allowed him to reap many benefits, but it had cost him, too, and this time that decision would haunt him for the rest of his life.

So, having been dismissed by his mistress while pining for a woman who belonged to another, he rode out of the city to the abandoned plantation his good friend Hugh had purchased, and hoped he had some cognac on hand.

Most men like you are always interested in women like myself, but what they fail to see is this is my job, it isn't necessarily who I am. People tend to meld the two and fail to realize that distinction.

Rhine laughed. "She bribed you?" "Sure did, and I took it like a politician at the state capital.

all females, regardless of age, race, or circumstances, should always be plotting rebellion to better the state of women.

Olivia handed Cara the bowl of ice cream. "You finish it. Life would be so much easier if Malloy would go out onto the plains and let himself be eaten by a bear.

I enjoyed our times together, but it was a business arrangement, nothing more." Val realized how naive she was. Shen never considered a man's arrangement with a mistress might be viewed so dispassionately...

No two families are alike," he said.

Rand studied him and then nodded as if he understood. "Preacher was a force to be reckoned with, but there comes a time when who we were no longer fits who we've become.

Her five-feet seven-inch frame

She dearly hoped her gender would not be a problem because she did not have the time to educate a man on the fine points of what a woman of the nineteenth century could achieve.

Men were surprised by her unconventional ways all the time. They