Quotes on Women
“Better to have a bed even if I have to share with him. Better to have sex than to die alone out there.” - The Poet, Louisa Reid
“But the main thing I wanted was to live untouched by men. I wasn’t going to find myself in my mother’s position if I could help it.” - Atalanta, Jennifer Saint
“Perhaps this was what womanhood was. The dangerous knowledge of who you are and what you could do with that power if pushed.” - Hekate, Nikita Gill
“Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brother’s do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more or learn more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex.” - Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
“As if denying herself sustenance, she might cling to childhood a little longer - to the safe simplicity of not becoming a woman.” - The Hemlock Cure, Joanne Burn
“Because isn’t that the biggest sin of all for a woman? Not to be of use.” - The Grace Year, Kim Liggett
“What I did not know was that I had hit upon the truth of womanhood: however blameless a life we led, the passions and the greed of men could bring us to ruin, and there was nothing we could do.” - Ariadne, Jennifer Saint