Quote by Antonio Di Benedetto

“Whatever she suffered, whatever loss came to her, she would throw it off, for it was not in her nature to go under. Although…

— Winston Graham

“Her tone held a challenge. She did not need his condemnation or what his pity. Once, she had wanted his love, but that time…

— India Drummond

“Her life was shameful and lonely. There was no longer any hope for her, there was no chance of escape. Yet, in spite of…

— Anna Kavan

“She was beholden to no man, held her tongue for none, she would stand before the gods themselves and inform them of what they…

— A. H. Septimius

“She said she wanted a man like that, someone who understood sorrow, not someone who caused it.”

— Alice Hoffman

“He remembered the gracefulness with which she moved in battle—like liquid flesh. There was no one quite like his wife, and he never felt…

— Nadia Scrieva

“Besides, women were better suited to bear sorrow than men.”

— Oscar Wilde

“And while a part of her wanted that more than anything; to let go, embrace the despair and let it flood through her veins…

— Kyle M. Scott

“She reminded him that the weak will never enter the kingdom of love, which is a harsh and ungenerous kingdom,and that women give themselves…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“And there rose in her an unmastering desire to overcome her; to unmask her. If she could have felled her it would have eased…

— Virginia Woolf

“She posed as being more indolent than she felt, for fear of finding herself less able than she could wish.”

— Elizabeth Bowen