L.C.W. Allingham

“One day they are ours, a part of our family, our lives, as vital and colourful as every field and flower, and then one day they are a shadow, flitting at the edge of our vision, inconstant and wavering like a silhouette reflected in a sun-dappled pond in the spring light. Like”
― G. Lawrence, The Bastard Princess

“He is trying to protect me, in the simple way men are always trying to protect women: by stealing away their freedom.”
― Justina Ireland, Deathless Divide

“The failings of women, children and servants, of the feeble, the destitute and the ignorant, are the fault of their husbands, fathers and masters, of the strong, the rich and the learned.”
― Victor Hugo, The Wretched

“The inordinate weight of this man was disturbing the balance of human destiny. This individual alone counted for more than the rest of the world put together. These excessive quantities of human vitality concentrated in a single person – the world going to one man’s head – would be fatal to civilization if it were to continue.”
― Victor Hugo, The Wretched