“I loved Charlotte Bronte when I was little, and I wanted to be Charlot...” — Jamaica Kincaid Quote

“I loved Charlotte Bronte when I was little, and I wanted to be Charlotte Bronte the way people want to be a princess.”

“What distinguished my life from my brother's is that my mother didn't like me. When I became a woman, I seemed to repel her.”

“One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.”

“I'm so used to being misunderstood.”

“Time is the element that controls the consciousness, the very being of the people.”

“At the time I was taught to read, it was an Eden-like time of my life. My mother adored me. Everyone adored me. So I associate reading with enormous pleasure.”

“Because of heroes like Susan B. Anthony and Lucy Stone, women today, like our daughters, Audrey and Charlotte, and future generations, will have their voices heard and their votes count.”

“In Charlotte, I thought we were on the right track. It didn't happen.”

“Cary and I are working together on another movie, Charlotte's Web.”

“After I signed my big contract, I expected to be in Charlotte for the rest of my career. Things just didn't work out. Now I'm with the Knicks.”

“We hope to encourage George and Charlotte to speak about their feelings, and to give them the tools and sensitivity to be supportive peers to their friends as they get older.”

“Hopefully, the people that would look at a Good Charlotte record and dismiss it for maybe what they think is a certain kind of content, if they do discover something meaningful, then it's a nice surprise. I like those kinds of contradictions.”