Maura Heaphy Dutton

“There is no one left who dares to quarrel with him. There is no one who dares to contradict him. No one would ever suggest that he is wrong. ... We have agreed to insane laws and now find ourselves in a legal tyranny. We have winked at manic cruelty, and now we close our eyes in fear. We thought that we were steering a galloping horse, but we are tangled in the reins and being dragged to our deaths. We have birthed and dandled and fed a tyrant, and now we do not even mourn when our monstrous baby kills a woman that he once called 'the finest in England.”
― Philippa Gregory, Boleyn Traitor

“It was 'the most natural thing in the world' that a woman should walk 'straight out of the house, abandoning her old home life, and relinquishing everything it contained,' she would later explain.”
― Hallie Rubenhold, Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress, and Dr. Crippen

“In vain did I try to convince her that it would be no less remarkable wherever it should happen. She felt that it was decidedly a thing that would be less remarkable in more exotic places -- a Balinese village, perhaps, or a Mexican pueblo; that it was essentially one of those sorts of things that happens to other people.”
― John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos

“... their targets were always the desperate, the ill-educated, the barely financially solvent, the sick and the hopeful.”
― Hallie Rubenhold, Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress, and Dr. Crippen