“How can you ask us to go back to our parlors?” I said, rising to my feet. “To turn our backs on ourselves and on our own sex? We don’t wish the movement to split, of course we don’t—it saddens me to think of it—but we can do little for the slave as long as we’re under the feet of men. Do what you have to do, censure us, withdraw your support, we’ll press on anyway. Now, sirs, kindly take your feet off our necks.”
― The Invention of Wings
― The Invention of Wings
“Falling in love was easy.anyone could fall. It was holding on that was tricky”
― The Husband's Secret
― The Husband's Secret
“She didn’t understand a damned thing about life except that it was arbitrary and cruel, and some people got away with murder while others made one tiny, careless mistake and paid a terrible price.”
― The Husband's Secret
― The Husband's Secret
“None of us ever know all the possible courses our lives could have and maybe should have taken. It's probably just as well. Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever. Just ask Pandora.”
― The Husband's Secret
― The Husband's Secret
“To remain silent in the face of evil is itself a form of evil.”
― The Invention of Wings
― The Invention of Wings
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