“Writers have influenced thoughts, principals, viewpoints and experiences throughout history. A talented writer’s pen is anointed with magic!”
― Crossroads and the Dominion of Four
― Crossroads and the Dominion of Four
“She was a complicated woman living a complex life. Art theft and forgery, an estranged uncle, and a murdered, homosexual husband. Alec was used to war, politics, natural disasters – tangible stories without too much mystery. He wondered if he was capable of writing a story with so much passion going on.”
― The Wasp Trap
― The Wasp Trap
“Her growing possessiveness felt both good and bad.”
― Death Leaves a Shadow
― Death Leaves a Shadow
“We seemed to think that if there were men we could fight them, and if there were only women—why, they would be no obstacles at all. Jeff, with his gentle romantic old-fashioned notions of women as clinging vines. Terry, with his clear decided practical theories that there were two kinds of women—those he wanted and those he didn't; Desirable and Undesirable was his demarcation. The latter as a large class, but negligible—he had never thought about them at all.”
― Herland
― Herland
“Of England's patrician class, the author writes: "It was easy to be agreeable when everything was done to keep them in comfort and ease.”
― The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
― The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
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