“Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“If people cannot be flawed in fiction there's no place left for us to be human.”
― Bad Feminist
― Bad Feminist
“Such is the imperfect nature of man! such spots are there on the disc of the clearest planet; and eyes like Miss Scatcherd's can only see those minute defects, and are blind to the full brightness of the orb.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“I don't approve of women driving, mind you. And now they get to vote!" He grumbled to himself. "Remember that play we saw ("The Minotaur")? All women are like that. Given a chance, they'd all fornicate with a bull.”
― Middlesex
― Middlesex
“On the scale of relevance, public approval or disapproval of a woman's choices should not merit measure.”
― Bad Feminist
― Bad Feminist
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