I think being a mother is the cruelest thing in the world. — Nella Larsen Being a mother Copy Share Image
“Money's awfully nice to have. In fact, all things considered, I think, 'Rene, that it's even worth the price.” — Nella Larsen Money Copy Share Image
that's what everybody wants, just a little more money, even the people who have it. — Nella Larsen Littles Copy Share Image
“It hurt. It hurt like hell. But it didn’t matter, if no one knew.” — Nella Larsen Hurt Copy Share Image
I feel like the oldest person in the world with the longest stretch of life before me. — Nella Larsen Feels Copy Share Image
Lies, injustice, and hypocrisy are a part of every ordinary community. Most people achieve a sort of protective immunity, a kind of… — Nella Larsen Achieve Copy Share Image
“Brian darling, I’m really not such an idiot that I don’t realize that if a man calls me a nigger it’s his… — Nella Larsen First time Copy Share Image
“You knew what his opinion of you was, while he -- Well, 'twas ever thus. We know, always have. They don't. Not… — Nella Larsen Humorous Copy Share Image
Have you ever stopped to think how much unhappiness and downright cruelty are laid to the loving kindness of the Lord? And… — Nella Larsen Ardent Copy Share Image
“she regarded with an astonishment that had in it a mild degree of amusement the violence of the feelings which it stirred… — Nella Larsen Astonishment Copy Share Image
“She said: “It’s funny about ‘passing.’ We disapprove of it and at the same time condone it. It excites our contempt and… — Nella Larsen Contempt Copy Share Image
“I'm not such an idiot that I don't realize that if a man calls me a nigger it's his fault the first… — Nella Larsen First time Copy Share Image
“No, certainly he didn’t. Not actually. He couldn’t, not very well, since he didn’t know. But he would have. It amounts to… — Nella Larsen Unpleasant Copy Share Image
“And mingled with her disbelief and resentment was another feeling, a question. Why hadn’t she spoken that day? Why, in the face… — Nella Larsen Heart Copy Share Image
These people yapped loudly of race, of race consciousness, of race pride, and yet suppressed its most delightful manifestations, love of color,… — Nella Larsen Color Copy Share Image
“Not so lonely that that old, queer, unhappy restlessness had begun again within him; that craving for some place strange and different,… — Nella Larsen Copy Share Image
“This, Irene told her, was the year 1927 in the city of New York, and hundreds of white people of Hugh Wentworth’s… — Nella Larsen Harlem Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t now, as it had been once, that she was afraid that he would throw everything aside and rush off to… — Nella Larsen Heart Desire Copy Share Image
“After all these years to still blame her like this. Hadn’t his success proved that she’d been right in insisting that he… — Nella Larsen Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
“What right, she kept demanding of herself, had Clare Kendry to expose her, or even Gertrude Martin, to such humiliation, such downright… — Nella Larsen Humiliation Copy Share Image
“If it hadn’t been for that, I’d have gone on to the end, never seeing any of you. But that did something… — Nella Larsen Gone Copy Share Image
“But there was, she knew, something else. Happiness, she supposed. Whatever that might be. What, exactly, she wondered, was happiness. Very positively… — Nella Larsen Happiness Copy Share Image
“And yet she hadn't the air of a woman whose life had been touched by uncertainty or suffering. Pain, fear, and grief… — Nella Larsen Fear Copy Share Image
Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase. — Nella Larsen Biological Copy Share Image
New York's the lonesomest place in the world if you don't know anybody. — Nella Larsen Ifs Copy Share Image
Children aren't everything. There are other things in the world, thought I admit some people don't seem to suspect it. — Nella Larsen Child Copy Share Image
“To each his own milieu. Enhance what was already in one's possession.” — Nella Larsen Enhance Copy Share Image
Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it — Nella Larsen Books Copy Share Image
“She hated to admit that money was the most serious difficulty. Knowing full well that it was important, she nevertheless rebelled at… — Nella Larsen Money Copy Share Image
“But she did not look the future in the face. She wanted to feel nothing, to think nothing; simply to believe that… — Nella Larsen Inpirational-quotes Copy Share Image
The trouble with Clare was, not only that she wanted to have her cake and eat it too, but that she wanted… — Nella Larsen Cake Copy Share Image
Somewhere, within her, in a deep recess, crouched discontent. She began to lose confidence in the fullness of her life, the glow… — Nella Larsen Anguish Copy Share Image
“Later, when she examined her feeling of annoyance, Irene admitted, a shade reluctantly, that it arose from a feeling of being outnumbered,… — Nella Larsen Heart Copy Share Image
“Incited. That was it, the guidingprinciple of her life in Copenhagen. She was incited to make an impression, a voluptous impression. She… — Nella Larsen Life Copy Share Image
“The chagrin which she had felt at her first failure to subvert this latest manifestation of his discontent had receded, leaving in… — Nella Larsen Chagrin Copy Share Image
