Bernice Barry > Quotes

“If they ever saw us, when we gather together, two or three, or more of us. If they heard the things we share, the bawdy words and the laughter that bring tears as we cling to one another, breathless with mirth. They would see they are not the masters, we just let them believe it.”
― Bernice Barry, The Names of a Hare

“They like us to be all air and light, pink cheeked and petal throated. As white skinned as the unbroken surface of a silky blancmange. They think we should smell of amber and rosewater, feel like velvet under their hands, fall open at any time, soft limbed and slippery and grateful from the first to the last...Must be a disappointment, a shock perhaps, finding out what we really are. When they meet the truth of a woman. Body and mind and understanding there is more, so much more, very little as yielding, sweet smelling, helpless as they'd been led to believe.”
― Bernice Barry, The Names of a Hare