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She had played too long a part unworthy of her. She had consented to be the Dona her world had demanded – a superficial, lovely creature, who walked, and talked, and laughed, accepting praise and admiration with a shrug of the shoulder as
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“She had played too long a part unworthy of her. She had consented to be the Dona her world had demanded – a superficial, lovely creature, who walked, and talked, and laughed, accepting praise and admiration with a shrug of the shoulder as natural homage to her beauty, careless, insolent, deliberately indifferent, and all the while another Dona, a strange, phantom Dona, peered at her from a dark mirror and was ashamed. This other self knew that life need not be bitter, nor worthless, nor bounded by a narrow casement, but could be limitless, infinite – that it meant suffering, and love, and danger, and sweetness, and more than this even, much more.”
― Frenchman's Creek
― Frenchman's Creek
“Christianity has made fools of women,’ she said. ‘Such a worship of weakness, such snivelling humiliation! Pagan women had strength. They rejoiced and conquered! And in order to conquer, no discomfort is unbearable. Nothing is too much to suffer.”
― Destination Unknown
― Destination Unknown
“Life would be tedious without a vendetta or two.”
― Ultimate Collection: 20 Novels & 170+ Short Stories, Poetry, Letters and Autobiography
― Ultimate Collection: 20 Novels & 170+ Short Stories, Poetry, Letters and Autobiography
“I was glad to be beneath the notice of the tsar, who was young and handsome and cruel, but I would have liked to be pretty enough or charming enough that at least someone might want to marry me, instead of only taking me as a codicil to whatever begrudging dowry they could wring out of my father.”
― Spinning Silver
― Spinning Silver
“How unfair it was, reflected Dame Laura, that women in love looked their best and men in love looked like depressed sheep.”
― A Daughter’s a Daughter: A Gripping Historical Drama of Secrets and Crimes of the Heart
― A Daughter’s a Daughter: A Gripping Historical Drama of Secrets and Crimes of the Heart
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