“Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.”
Source: Incantation
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Novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer 1952Related quotes

“And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.”
Source: Middlemarch

“The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.”
As quoted in Queers in History : The Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Historical Gays (2009), by Keith Stern, p. 466.

“For beauty being the best of all we know
Sums up the unsearchable and secret aims
Of nature.”
The Growth of Love, Sonnet 8.
Poetry

“Keep what you’ve got; the evil that we know is best. (translator Thornton)”
Habeus ut nactus ; nota mala res optima’st.
Trinummus, Act I, scene 2, lines 25
Trinummus (The Three Coins)
"V. S. Pritchett: Midnight Oil," p. 227
The Good Word & Other Words (1978)

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"Quotes", Late Notebooks, 1982–1990: Architecture of the Spiritual World (2002)