Mishelle

“Teresa said that until men gave birth and put up with husbands, as women do, they should not have an opinion - let alone decide on - abortion and divorce. She didn't believe that men had the right to an opinion, much less to pass laws on the female body, since they'd never know the exhaustion of gestation, the pain of labor, and the eternal bondage of motherhood.”
― Isabel Allende, Violeta

“You need a plan,” she hears—or seems to hear—her old nurse, Sofia, say, from a place near her elbow. “To lose your temper is to lose the battle.”
― Maggie O'Farrell, The Marriage Portrait

“The people who applaud the loudest, Lucrezia notes, are the ones who talked through the performance.”
― Maggie O'Farrell, The Marriage Portrait

“To lose your temper is to lose the battle.”
― Maggie O'Farrell, The Marriage Portrait