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“I ain't afraid to love a man. I ain't afraid to shoot him either.”
― Annie Oakley

“She was bold, and yet she was reserved. She was sensual and girlish, but she was never coy. So I think that what she projected was a vitality and freshness that for many people came to stand for American womanhood. It's what made American women attractive: that outdoor complexion, that wonderful figure, and yet that carriage, that demureness, that suggested that she was in charge of herself and not to be had.”
― Paul Fees

“I don't need a man. I have a gun.”
― Cynthia Hand, My Calamity Jane

“If I wanted to shoot someone’s face, they’d know it.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Fantastic Tales of Terror: History's Darkest Secrets

“Samantha imagined that in another life, she and Alison could have, indeed, been friends.
Had she not been about to rob the train.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, The Scot Beds His Wife

“Alison’s gaze gentled. “Tell me, Samantha, have you ever been to Scotland?”
― Kerrigan Byrne, The Scot Beds His Wife

“Tis best to weight the enemy more mighty than he seems.â€�
Or she, as was this particular case.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, The Scot Beds His Wife

“Ye’re wet,â€� he groaned.
“I’m underwater.�
“I ken that, bonny. But this dampness has nothing to do with that.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, The Scot Beds His Wife

“Who knew being married was such fun," he panted, pressing a kiss to her temple and swatting her backside simultaneously.
She pulled back to look at him, one of her rare, reluctant smiles tugging at the corner of her kiss-reddened mouth. "You probably should have done it years ago."
"Nay, lass," he said suddenly feeling very serious. "Then it wouldna have been ye.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, The Scot Beds His Wife

“Though her muscles went rigid, her tongue sparred with his, as he might have guessed it would. Each lick and swirl, each plunge and retreat became a point counted for or against.
Gavin had never enjoyed a woman’s mouth so much in his entire life.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, The Scot Beds His Wife

“Annie refused to believe in nightmares. Anything she feared at night, she knew she could kill once awake.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Fantastic Tales of Terror: History's Darkest Secrets

“Nothing like gunpowder to get a girl going.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Fantastic Tales of Terror: History's Darkest Secrets

“He was going to kiss her. The thought speared through her stunned mind as he closed the distance between them and brushed his warm lips over hers.

The rush was like plunging from the high point of a roller coaster: sheer exhilaration, breathlessness, half a heart attack.

She made a sound. She hadn't meant it to be encouraging, but it so obviously was, he kissed her deeper.

Nobody kissed like Harper. God, she'd almost forgotten how he would begin slow and soft and seduce her mouth little by little until she was hopelessly lost, until she was ruthlessly conquered.”
― Dana Marton, Deathmarch

“It never settled her stomach to leave any kill behind.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Fantastic Tales of Terror: History's Darkest Secrets

“I will always look for what my eyes cain’t see.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Fantastic Tales of Terror: History's Darkest Secrets

“After spending years in an asylum, admitting what she knew out loud seemed terrifying and dangerous.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Fantastic Tales of Terror: History's Darkest Secrets

“I hoped for one of my people to do this. But maybe if you can, it will bond you to the land and you’ll be able to rid the white man of his crimes.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Fantastic Tales of Terror: History's Darkest Secrets

“There are people who make a hobby of "alternative history," imagining how history would be different if small, chance events had gone another way One of my favorite examples is a story I first heard from the physicist Murray Gell-Mann. In the late 1800s, "Buffalo Bill" Cody created a show called Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, which toured the United States, putting on exhibitions of gun fighting, horsemanship, and other cowboy skills. One of the show's most popular acts was a woman named Phoebe Moses, nicknamed Annie Oakley. Annie was reputed to have been able to shoot the head off of a running quail by age twelve, and in Buffalo Bill's show, she put on a demonstration of marksmanship that included shooting flames off candles, and corks out of bottles. For her grand finale, Annie would announce that she would shoot the end off a lit cigarette held in a man's mouth, and ask for a brave volunteer from the audience. Since no one was ever courageous enough to come forward, Annie hid her husband, Frank, in the audience. He would "volunteer," and they would complete the trick together. In 1890, when the Wild West Show was touring Europe, a young crown prince (and later, kaiser), Wilhelm, was in the audience. When the grand finale came, much to Annie's surprise, the macho crown prince stood up and volunteered. The future German kaiser strode into the ring, placed the cigarette in his mouth, and stood ready. Annie, who had been up late the night before in the local beer garden, was unnerved by this unexpected development. She lined the cigarette up in her sights, squeezed...and hit it right on target.

Many people have speculated that if at that moment, there had been a slight tremor in Annie's hand, then World War I might never have happened. If World War I had not happened, 8.5 million soldiers and 13 million civilian lives would have been saved. Furthermore, if Annie's hand had trembled and World War I had not happened, Hitler would not have risen from the ashes of a defeated Germany, and Lenin would not have overthrown a demoralized Russian government. The entire course of twentieth-century history might have been changed by the merest quiver of a hand at a critical moment. Yet, at the time, there was no way anyone could have known the momentous nature of the event.”
― Eric D. Beinhocker, The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics

“Sitting Bull gave most of the money away to the band of ragged, hungry boys who seemed to surround him wherever he went. He once told Annie Oakley, another one of the Wild West Show's stars, that he could not understand how white men could be so unmindful of their own poor. "The white man knows how to make everything," he said, "but he does not know how to distribute it.”
― Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West