| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 10993 |
| QUOTATION: | Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Willa Cather (1873–1947), U.S. novelist. originally published in the [Lincoln, NE] Courier (Nov. 23, 1895). repr. In The World and the Parish: Willa Cather’s Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902, vol. 1, ed. William M. Curtin, University of Nebraska Press (1970).
A youthful opinion offered in the course of a column lamenting her disappointment in the English novelist Ouida (1838–1908). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Cather Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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