Top 10 Susan Elia MacNeal Quotes (2025 Update)

Susan Elia MacNeal Quote: “If you’re poor, they call you crazy. But if you’re rich, you’re ’eccentric.”

1. “If you’re poor, they call you crazy. But if you’re rich, you’re ’eccentric.”

2. “Please,” David said, “we’re British – we adore animals. It’s children we can’t stand. That’s why we invented boarding schools. More tea?”

— Susan Elia MacNeal

3. “Patience attains all that it strives for. He who has God finds he lacks nothing. God alone suffices.”

— Susan Elia MacNeal

4. “The Black Dog of depression was dirty and scarred, feral and rabid. He lurked in the night, yellow eyes gleaming, waiting for a chink in the armor, a weakness, a vulnerability, a memory. And then, jaws wide and fangs sharp, he would leap.”

— Susan Elia MacNeal

5. “Could she see herself, someday, wearing a bridal gown, walking down an aisle – or going to a courthouse in a simple suit? Marriage was, after all, most young women’s life goal. And yet, the image left Maggie cold. That’s because you need to be in love first, dummy.”

— Susan Elia MacNeal

6. “Why is it that when you pick a number, any number, then double it, add 6, halve it, and take away the number you started with, your answer is always 3?”

— Susan Elia MacNeal

7. “I’m through allowing myself to be confined to so-called ‘women’s work.’ I’m also through with patronizing men giving me half-truths and withholding information. That will end here and now.”

— Susan Elia MacNeal

8. “Eagles are not kindly birds. Some are cowardly and cruel. But the ancient race of the northern mountains were the greatest of all birds; they were proud and strong and noble-hearted.’ If that doesn’t describe the bloody Americans, I don’t know what does.”

— Susan Elia MacNeal

9. “She wasn’t happy, exactly; she was still too raw for that. But she was satisfied. Satisfied and relieved, too, with maybe just a bit of joy thrown in for good measure. Yes, that was it. She’d made it through so much already. She knew now that she was strong. She’d survive. And she had friends and family to support her.”

— Susan Elia MacNeal

$Susan Elia MacNeal Quote: “Maggie thought about numbers. Numbers weren’t evil. Numbers, points, curves, fractions – they all existed independent of human thought and action. She missed math. She loved the order, the cool logic, the joy of solving its inevitable steps.”$

10. “Maggie thought about numbers. Numbers weren’t evil. Numbers, points, curves, fractions – they all existed independent of human thought and action. She missed math. She loved the order, the cool logic, the joy of solving its inevitable steps.”

— Susan Elia MacNeal