Eva Figes

“Speak to me, wood pigeon. I need your voice.”

— Eva Figes

grievance does not make for great art.

— Eva Figes

There is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been…

— Eva Figes

For centuries the word 'nature' has been used to bolster prejudices or to express, not reality, but a state of affairs that…

— Eva Figes

Sadly, man recognises that the ideal, submissive woman he has created for himself is somehow not quite what he wanted.

— Eva Figes

Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist.

— Eva Figes

Nothing comes back. The eye sees for a moment, the ear hears, but look, now it is gone.

— Eva Figes

It is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been…

— Eva Figes

But the gates of my happy childhood had clanged shut behind me; I had become adult enough to recognize the need to…

— Eva Figes

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to…

— Eva Figes

“But I know that the body I inhabit will only take so much, can only go so far. Rocks, stones, even the…

— Eva Figes

Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a watertight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may…

— Eva Figes

Monarchs not only fashion their age, but are fashioned by it, so that they can become a sort of personification of the…

— Eva Figes