“Only the weak need … heroes … and heroes need … those around them to remain weak.” — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
Why were there so many barriers between us, always? Barriers of clothing, of etiquette, of time and age and reason. — Melanie Benjamin Age Copy Share Image
“I saw myself through her eyes, I saw myself through Charles’s eyes, always; I never looked into a mirror and saw myself… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Never before had I imagined leaving home, but that wasn't because of lack of desire, only lack of possibility.” — Melanie Benjamin Desire Copy Share Image
But oh my dear, I am tired of being Alice in Wonderland. Does it sound ungrateful? It is. Only I do get… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Were we women always destined to appear as we were not, as long as we were standing next to our husbands?” — Melanie Benjamin Husbands Copy Share Image
“What were those prizes to me when the one I desired the most was withheld from me?” — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Unlike men, women got less sintimental as we aged, I was discovering. We cried enough, when we were young; vessels overflowing with… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“We are in receipt of numerous communications concerning the Harper's Ferry affair, and the various topics connected with it... We must decline… — Melanie Benjamin Communication Copy Share Image
“Suddenly my mood shifted, as it always seemed to do whenever I was with my family. Away from them, I could be… — Melanie Benjamin Family Copy Share Image
“I saw myself through her eyes, I saw myself through Charles's eyes, always; I never looked into a mirror and saw myself… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“What I did not know was that I loved him, too. That was what I had found, what had been there all… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“No longer did I need to be responsible for my own destiny, to worry about what to do today, tomorrow, next year.… — Melanie Benjamin Destiny Copy Share Image
“No, this was the career I wanted; a writer could be employed for as long as she could hold a pencil; for… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“they’re pearls. And as such, should only be auctioned off to the highest bidder.” Now I was very confused. Only slaves were… — Melanie Benjamin Long ago Copy Share Image
“Shared memories; triumphs and tragedies; the heroine doing right in the end despite temptation—all the plots of all the movies I’ve written… — Melanie Benjamin Doing right Copy Share Image
“A woman's life, always changing, accommodating, then shedding, old duties for new; one person's expectations for another until finally, victoriously, emerging stronger.… — Melanie Benjamin Life Copy Share Image
“She took the letters, and she threw them in the nursery hearth, stirring them up, ripping them with the poker, all the… — Melanie Benjamin Nature Copy Share Image
“she felt as if she was constantly holding everything in, walking around like an egg that had been glued back together, walking… — Melanie Benjamin Heart Copy Share Image
“My intellect, my wit—I’d forgotten I’d even possessed them, and they were dull and neglected, to be sure. But in the company… — Melanie Benjamin Humor Copy Share Image
“why Phoebe always dipped her food into tea before she ate it (she said she had soft teeth and didn’t want to… — Melanie Benjamin Marriage Copy Share Image
“I had the foresight to pick up a shard of china—the faded pink china bow of the shepherdess’s apron—and plant it in… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“My dear, simple little sister! Every mood so fleeting, yet so obvious; there was no mystery to Minnie, none at all. She… — Melanie Benjamin Little sister Copy Share Image
“The girls we'd believed to have been lost in the haze of regret and recrimination that comes with surviving in the unscrupulous… — Melanie Benjamin Business Copy Share Image
“His death notice included the mention that in 1880, he had married Alice in Wonderland. I like to think he would have… — Melanie Benjamin Death Copy Share Image
