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American author known for her depictions of the American Midwest. Cather's works often feature female protagonists, showcasing their resilience and growth in challenging environments. Her notable works include 'My Ántonia' and 'O Pioneers!'

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Famous Willa Cather Quotes

“This land was an enigma. It was like a horse that no one knows how to break to harness, that runs wild and kicks things to pieces.”

Knows Running Break Know How Pieces Land Horse Kicks Harness Enigma

Book:The Best of Willa Cather

Source: The Best of Willa Cather

“The great fact in life, the always possible escape from dullness, was the lake. The sun rose out of it, the day began there; it was like an open door that nobody could shut. The land and all its dreariness could never close in on you. You had only to look at the lake, and you knew you would soon be free.”

Looks Facts Sun Doors Land Rose Lakes Dullness

Book:The Professor's House

Source: The Professor's House

“The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes.”

Humans Littles Facts Land Waste Pioneers Human Society

Book:The Best of Willa Cather

Source: The Best of Willa Cather

“Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.”

Grows Fiction Feet Land

Author:Willa Cather

“There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.”

Made Country Land Materials Starlight Creeks

Book:My Ántonia

Source: My Ántonia

“They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs. The land and all that it bore they treated with consideration; not attempting to improve it, they never desecrated it.”

Ifs Needs Littles Water Land Rivers Forests Treated Consideration Bores Attempting

Book:Death Comes for the Archbishop: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition

Source: Death Comes for the Archbishop: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition

“We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it - for a little while.”

People Littles Land Comes And Goes Pioneers

Book:60 WESTERNS: Cowboy Adventures, Yukon & Oregon Trail Tales, Famous Outlaws, Gold Rush Adventures & much more: Riders of the Purple Sage, The Night Horseman, The Last of the Mohicans, Rimrock Trail, The Hidden Children, The Law of the Land, Heart of the West, A Texas Cow-Boy, The Prairie…

Source: 60 WESTERNS: Cowboy Adventures, Yukon & Oregon Trail Tales, Famous Outlaws, Gold Rush Adventures & much more: Riders of the Purple Sage, The Night Horseman, The Last of the Mohicans, Rimrock Trail, The Hidden Children, The Law of the Land, Heart of the West, A Texas Cow-Boy, The Prairie…

“There seemed to be nothing to see; no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. If there was a road, I could not make it out in the faint starlight. There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.”

Ifs Made Country Stars Tree Land Fields Materials Hills Fence Starlight Creeks

Book:My Ántonia

Source: My Ántonia

“The land belongs to the future.”

Land

Book:My Antonia / O Pioneers!

Source: My Antonia / O Pioneers!