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Top 30 Nancy Springer Quotes (2025 Update)

Nancy Springer Quote: “Nothing last forever except change.”

1. “Nothing last forever except change.”

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Nancy Springer Quote: “Conform, go crazy, or become an artist.”

2. “Conform, go crazy, or become an artist.”

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Nancy Springer Quote: “The only way for me to be safe and free was to be – be what my name decreed me. Enola. Alone.”

3. “The only way for me to be safe and free was to be – be what my name decreed me. Enola. Alone.”

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Nancy Springer Quote: “Yet one could speak truth and still be a villain.”

4. “Yet one could speak truth and still be a villain.”

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Nancy Springer Quote: “For Ellid born of Eitha had a face like a flower for loveliness and a body like a doe for grace; her mind was steadfast as a sword and her spirit was bright as its skylit blade. Cuin.”

5. “For Ellid born of Eitha had a face like a flower for loveliness and a body like a doe for grace; her mind was steadfast as a sword and her spirit was bright as its skylit blade. Cuin.”

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Nancy Springer Quote: “To be a man, apparently, was to lack the ability to be a woman.”

6. “To be a man, apparently, was to lack the ability to be a woman.”

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Nancy Springer Quote: “I watched him until he disappeared between the forest trees – watched after him almost as if I knew that, through no fault of his own, I would not converse with him again for a long time.”

7. “I watched him until he disappeared between the forest trees – watched after him almost as if I knew that, through no fault of his own, I would not converse with him again for a long time.”

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Nancy Springer Quote: “Confound my genteel upbringing! I could not think of any name foul enough to call him.”

8. “Confound my genteel upbringing! I could not think of any name foul enough to call him.”

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Nancy Springer Quote: “Once woman is made equal to man, she fancies herself his superior.”

9. “Once woman is made equal to man, she fancies herself his superior.”

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Nancy Springer Quote: “I hope that the kind reader recognises this as a despairing attempt at humour.”

10. “I hope that the kind reader recognises this as a despairing attempt at humour.”

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Nancy Springer Quote: “We bastards are not to blame for any of it.”

11. “We bastards are not to blame for any of it.”

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Nancy Springer Quote: “Thread and cloth were ordinary – worse than ordinary; they were women’s affairs. But letters! Letters were for lords and kings. And something in me blazed fiery jealous and joyous at the thought: Why ever should they have what I did not?”

12. “Thread and cloth were ordinary – worse than ordinary; they were women’s affairs. But letters! Letters were for lords and kings. And something in me blazed fiery jealous and joyous at the thought: Why ever should they have what I did not?”

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Nancy Springer Quote: “Writing fiction has always, for me, been an alchemy of turning pain into poetry, ugliness into beauty. It has been a kind of redemption.”

13. “Writing fiction has always, for me, been an alchemy of turning pain into poetry, ugliness into beauty. It has been a kind of redemption.”

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Nancy Springer Quote: “Grinning with delight even as my heart ached – a familiar bittersweet feeling, that of enjoying affection from afar – I watched until they all went inside, the cab and the barouche drove away, and it became apparent that the moment of drama was over.”

14. “Grinning with delight even as my heart ached – a familiar bittersweet feeling, that of enjoying affection from afar – I watched until they all went inside, the cab and the barouche drove away, and it became apparent that the moment of drama was over.”

— Nancy Springer

Nancy Springer Quote: “Chance Duv knows!” She spoke lightly. “Folk have always told me that the night is full of all manner of evil.” “Ay, even so,” Bevan said heavily, “but it is the same evil that is in the day – evil of men. Look there!”

15. “Chance Duv knows!” She spoke lightly. “Folk have always told me that the night is full of all manner of evil.” “Ay, even so,” Bevan said heavily, “but it is the same evil that is in the day – evil of men. Look there!”

— Nancy Springer

Nancy Springer Quote: “Sorrow will turn to stone unless you weep. I thought it would come before this. Weep it out.”

16. “Sorrow will turn to stone unless you weep. I thought it would come before this. Weep it out.”

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Nancy Springer Quote: “He would expect me to flee from him. Therefore, I would not. I would flee towards him.”

17. “He would expect me to flee from him. Therefore, I would not. I would flee towards him.”

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Nancy Springer Quote: “In the blue sky overhead, larks sang like my heart.”

18. “In the blue sky overhead, larks sang like my heart.”

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Nancy Springer Quote: “He was just a sixteen-year old boy who had been killed, a kid whose photo had been in the paper, a kid who would mostly be forgotten by the time the newspaper went into the garbage-yet he was the universe, all the dying, all the crying. He was everyone who had ever died young.”

19. “He was just a sixteen-year old boy who had been killed, a kid whose photo had been in the paper, a kid who would mostly be forgotten by the time the newspaper went into the garbage-yet he was the universe, all the dying, all the crying. He was everyone who had ever died young.”

— Nancy Springer

Nancy Springer Quote: “Fathers – half of anyone’s life seemed to be about who fathered them.”

20. “Fathers – half of anyone’s life seemed to be about who fathered them.”

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Nancy Springer Quote: “I think,” he says at last, “that it is a great pity she will not trust in me.”

21. “I think,” he says at last, “that it is a great pity she will not trust in me.”

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Nancy Springer Quote: “And I ought to stop dreaming about it and start doing it. Right now.”

22. “And I ought to stop dreaming about it and start doing it. Right now.”

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Nancy Springer Quote: “The bestowing of chrysanthemums indicates familial attachment and, by implication, affection.”

23. “The bestowing of chrysanthemums indicates familial attachment and, by implication, affection.”

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Nancy Springer Quote: “A talented artist who has unfortunately turned her energies to the cause of women’s so-called rights.”

24. “A talented artist who has unfortunately turned her energies to the cause of women’s so-called rights.”

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Nancy Springer Quote: “Walking away barefoot on the soft loam, with mist rising in ribbons all around her, Etty tucked the year’s first violets into her hair.”

25. “Walking away barefoot on the soft loam, with mist rising in ribbons all around her, Etty tucked the year’s first violets into her hair.”

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Nancy Springer Quote: “Curiosity goes hand in hand with intellect, and intellect runs in the family.”

26. “Curiosity goes hand in hand with intellect, and intellect runs in the family.”

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Nancy Springer Quote: “There is method to her madness!”

27. “There is method to her madness!”

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Nancy Springer Quote: “One cannot be a mother without first being a person; family, husband and children should not be allowed, as is so often the case, to steal a woman’s selfhood and her dreams.”

28. “One cannot be a mother without first being a person; family, husband and children should not be allowed, as is so often the case, to steal a woman’s selfhood and her dreams.”

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Nancy Springer Quote: “Etty saw Rowan, daughter of Robin Hood, lifting her green kirtle, her brown braid lashing like a wildcat’s tail as she tried to run.”

29. “Etty saw Rowan, daughter of Robin Hood, lifting her green kirtle, her brown braid lashing like a wildcat’s tail as she tried to run.”

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Nancy Springer Quote: “She lay all too aware of how frost stiffened her hair, furred her blankets.”

30. “She lay all too aware of how frost stiffened her hair, furred her blankets.”

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Nancy Springer Quote: “I could not be corseted, either literally or figuratively, into any conventional feminine mould.”

31. “I could not be corseted, either literally or figuratively, into any conventional feminine mould.”

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