Sarah

“And in these times of increasing equality, it would be churlish having given women the right to vote, not to give them the right to murder. Or at least the equal chance to be considered as a suspect in a murder.”
― Verity Bright, A Very English Murder

“She’d lived all her life in money-lit radiance. Shadows now taught her the value of each dollar’s tiny flame; what would she choose to illumine in her new dim world?”
― Marlowe Benn, Relative Fortunes

“...no eyes but mine will read these words. Why, then, the gentle Reader will ask, do I infer his or her existence by addressing her, or him? The answer should be obvious. Art cannot exist in a vacuum. The creative spirit must possess an audience. It is impossible for a writer to do herself justice if she is only talking to herself.”
― Elizabeth Peters, The Mummy Case

“As difficult as financial freedom was for a woman to achieve, sexual freedom seemed even more elusive.”
― Marlowe Benn, Relative Fortunes