Handmaids Quote by Anonymous

“There would be no one to live for her during those coming years; she would live for herself. There would be no powerful will…

— Kate Chopin

“she threw herself wearily into a chair that stood out of its place in the middle of the house floor, where in ordinary times…

— George Eliot

He had his time measures and he had her. That was his life. For as long as he could remember, it had been that…

— Mitch Albom

“She was like defenceless Nature, that withers in the blast because it has shelter neither of God nor of men; human beings do not…

— Halldór Laxness

Reason ought not, like vanity, to adorn herself with ancient parchments, and the display of a genealogical tree; more dignified in her proceedings, and…

— Suzanne Curchod

He could lose himself in her forever, he thought.

— Ann Brashares

“But she had learnt, in those solemn hours of thought, that she herself must one day answer for her own life, and what she…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

Yet though a man gets many wounds in breast, He dieth not, unless the appointed time, The limit of his life's span, coincide; Nor…

— Aeschylus

“Her opinion is that she did not struggle her way to the august age of forty-three only to have the dignity accorded to her…

— Zen Cho

history ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries.

— Marthe Bibesco

“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

“How constantly in her triumph would she be able to forget all his vices, his debts, his gambling, his late hours, and his cruel…

— Anthony Trollope