I have never written a book about my life, despite being offered purses of gold. I made 'Boxes' because I wanted to make a sincere depiction of a daughter who has lost her father, or the jealousy one can feel towards a daughter who has become more beautiful than you and whose stepfather starts to take her shopping.


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Telling lies and showing off to get attention are the mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to m...
JANE FONDA
I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.
JANE WAGNER
When you affirm your own rightness in the universe, then you co-operate with others easily and autom...
JANE ROBERTS
A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.
JANE FONDA
But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism ...
JANE JACOBS
You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful ...
JANE FONDA
A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not...
JANE HARRISON
My husband said he wanted to have a relationship with a redhead, so I dyed my hair.
JANE FONDA
I worry that no matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.
JANE WAGNER
You're probably not a member of a major league baseball team, your errors, unless they are truly spe...
JANE GOODSELL
Channels, psychological and psychic, always exist, sending communications back and forth through the...
JANE ROBERTS
Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever ...
JANE HOWARD
From politics it was an easy step to silence.
JANE AUSTEN
There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
JANE AUSTEN
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
JANE AUSTEN
Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often considerab...
JANE AUSTEN
Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itsel...
JANE ADDAMS
One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
JANE AUSTEN
It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good co...
JANE AUSTEN
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, s...
JANE AUSTEN
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than o...
JANE AUSTEN
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain - until it is secured for all of us and...
JANE ADDAMS
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
JANE AUSTEN
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, noth...
JANE AUSTEN
Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
JANE AUSTEN
Those who do not complain are never pitied.
JANE AUSTEN
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
JANE AUSTEN
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
JANE AUSTEN
I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
JANE AUSTEN
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor o...
JANE AUSTEN
What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
JANE AUSTEN
With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
JANE AUSTEN
There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman t...
JANE AUSTEN
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be...
JANE AUSTEN
And I, Mr. Knightley, am equally stout in my confidence of its not doing them any harm. With all dea...
JANE AUSTEN
America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is...
JANE ADDAMS
The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
JANE ADDAMS
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion,...
JANE AUSTEN
Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish prepara...
JANE AUSTEN
Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
JANE AUSTEN
Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
JANE AUSTEN
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
JANE AUSTEN
To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
JANE AUSTEN
It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing...
JANE AUSTEN
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as sh...
JANE AUSTEN
. . . it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether...
JANE AUSTEN