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“It was the very worst kind of Banbury-Road house, depressing, with laurels. The front door was opened by a slut. I had never seen…

— Nancy Mitford

“He had picked up shrink talk from the women he'd met in Cambridge and understood that once a woman bares her soul there's little…

— André Aciman

“Only think of Mrs. Holder's being dead! Poor woman, she has done the only thing in the world she could possibly do to make…

— Jane Austen

“He was immaculately dressed, without trying. He dressed that way by nature - which meant that he had money - and I loved money.…

— Tarryn Fisher

“She was brave, taking on Grant all by herself. And she was gutsy and feisty, and she never gave up. A woman like that…

— Anastasia Wilde

“Other lumbermen could only fume inwardly and state heatedly, in the bosoms of their families, that they wished to God Mrs. Kennedy was a…

— Margaret Mitchell

“The blacksmith has proved quite competent while treating Cooper, and he possesses a great many tools in his workshop. If he learned how susceptible…

— Meljean Brook

“What woman could resist a handsome, wealthy, powerful, nice man who was also just a tiny bit broken inside? It meant that in spite…

— Shanna Swendson

“Living with only men hadn’t been the environment for sharing feelings and crying over a bucket of ice cream. I’d been raised to suck…

— E.M. Abel

“It made me alert, like someone had scrubbed mint all over my skin. I'd walk into that stinking, miserable prison and for the next…

— Jennifer Egan

“Not that I was morbidly obese or anything. But I guess I was hanging on the hope that one day I might accidentally whittle…

— Adele Griffen

“Biddy was never insulting, or capricious, or Biddy to-day and somebody else to-morrow; she would have derived only pain, and no pleasure, from giving…

— Charles Dickens