Status Updates From Pointed Roofs (Pilgrimage, #1)

'It filled her with fury to be regarded as one of a world of little tame things to be summoned by little men to be well-willed wives.'

'She had no provincialisms, no Londonisms. She could say, "There are no rules for English pronunciation, but what is usual at the University of Oxford is decisive for cultured people".'

'Away out here, the sense of imminent catastrophe that had shadowed all her life so far, had disappeared. Even here in this dim carriage, with disgrace ahead she felt that there was freedom somewhere at hand.'

'They had dreadful eyes - eyes like the eyes of hostesses she remembered, eyes she had seen in trains and buses, eyes from the old school. They came and stood and looked at her, and saw her as she was'

"I am unsociable, I suppose--she mused. She could not think of any one who did not offend her. I don't like men and I loathe women." LOL