Just for Fun Answers

In honor of Women's History Month (which, I know, is almost over) this Just For Fun will feature opening lines of books by women authors. Answers will be posted tomorrow. Have fun!

1. "No one remembers her beginnings."
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
• My Antonia by Willa Cather
• The Awakening by Kate Chopin
• Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
 
2.  "You better not never tell nobody but God."
• Sula by Toni Morrison
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• Thirteen Stories by Eudora Welty
 
3. "It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York."
• Sula by Toni Morrison
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• Thirteen Stories by Eudora Welty
 
4.  "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
•  Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
 
5. "A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi! That's all right!"
•  The Awakening by Kate Chopin
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
 
6. "124 was spiteful."
• Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• The Pastor's Wife by Elizabeth von Arnim
 
7. "Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board."
• Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
• A Voyage in the Sunbeam by Anna Brassey
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
 
8. "Beth was looking in the mirror of her mother's vanity."
• Small Change by Marge Piercy
• To Have and To Hold by Mary Johnston
• The Doctor's Wife by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
 
9. "When I was three and Bailey was four, we had arrived in the musty little town, wearing tags on our wrists which instructed - 'To Whom it May Concern' - that we were Marguerite and Bailey Johnson Jr., from Long Beach, California, en route to Stamps, Arkansas, c/o Mrs. Annie Henderson."
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• Sula by Toni Morrison
• Rose in Bloom by Louisa May Alcott
 
10. "A nurse held the door open for them. Judge McKelva going first, then his daughter Laurel, then his wife Fay, they walked into the windowless room where the doctor would make his examination."
• The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
• Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
• An Old Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott

I'd love to hear what you think...too hard, too easy, waste of time, loads of fun...?

Angela