Hearth

Books, for me, are a home. Books don't make a home - they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. I...

Jeanette Winterson

For me it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth a book and a friend and a nap undisturbed by creditors or grief.

Fernandez de Andrada

No longer will we (women) agree to protect the hearth at the price of extinguishing the fire within ourselves.

Celia Gilbert