Monarchs not only fashion their age, but are fashioned by it, so that they can become a sort of personification of the age. If Elizabeth I, independent, strong, represents the age of Shakespeare's heroines, a woman's heyday, Victoria represents another… — Eva Figes Copy Share Image
It is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done by. — Eva Figes Copy Share Image
Monarchs not only fashion their age, but are fashioned by it, so that they can become a sort of personification of the age. If… — Eva Figes Copy Share Image
Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist. — Eva Figes Copy Share Image
But the gates of my happy childhood had clanged shut behind me; I had become adult enough to recognize the need to conceal unbearable… — Eva Figes Copy Share Image
Nothing comes back. The eye sees for a moment, the ear hears, but look, now it is gone. — Eva Figes Copy Share Image
The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary… — Eva Figes Copy Share Image
There is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done by. — Eva Figes Copy Share Image
For centuries the word 'nature' has been used to bolster prejudices or to express, not reality, but a state of affairs that the user… — Eva Figes Copy Share Image
Sadly, man recognises that the ideal, submissive woman he has created for himself is somehow not quite what he wanted. — Eva Figes Copy Share Image
Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a watertight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may be a… — Eva Figes Copy Share Image
