Family Quote by Betty Cross

“Haven't you enough money?' For she knew that this is what is the matter with nearly everybody over twenty-five.”

— Stella Gibbons

“I'm a woman. Forty-five in female years (which is about a hundred and thirty in male years - bastards).”

— Debra Webb

“That's why he preferred young women. So much easier to impress. Although these days he often found them as rude and forthright as their…

— Gert Loveday

“She had now reached an age when one starts looking for a husband rather more systematically than one does at nineteen or even at…

— Barbara Pym

“But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.”

— Jane Austen

“He imagines that when I see him indefatigable I'll regret my decision. Such is his miserable scheme. As though I were short of slaves!”

— Samuel Beckett

“At the age of eleven, I owned a slave I couldn’t free.O”

— Sue Monk Kidd

“Great men's value increases with age.”

— Habeeb Akande

“I see the girl in there who’s greedy for more.”

— Kitty French

“I am happy to pay you," she announced. "For your services." A harsh, strangled sound cut through the room. It came from him. "Pay…

— Sarah MacLean

“I just said, ‘I hope she can get by with a salary of sixty thousand dollars.’ ”

— Dave Eggers

“Woman is the slave of the world.”

— C.B. Smith