Books Quote by Carrie Lomax

“She was old to know that marriages were like children. They had lives of their own and didn't necessarily act the way you thought…

— Rebecca Flowers

“Courtship is the time during which the girl decides whether or not she can do any better. Anonymous”

— Shmuley Boteach

“The stupidity with which he was favoured by nature must guard his courtship from any charm that could make a woman wish for its…

— Jane Austen

“Throughout her life, she behaved as if she had never heard anyone suggest that a woman couldn't do entirely as she pleased.”

— Francine Prose

“...if you are the exception that proves the rule, and the rule is that woman are inferior, you haven't made any progress.”

— Ariel Levy

“And reading this way - with no deadline, no agenda - she remembered why she loved literature so much. It was like fucking a…

— Emily Maguire

“All of her life, she’d had one rule when it came to dating. If you can do it, then I can do it, too.”

— Hannah Davenport

“Being a woman was a trap. Something would bring you down before you turned twenty-three. The only time the world shows you any favor,…

— Heather O'Neill

“It wasn't the same sort of defiant attitude she saw so often among young men of the ton. She'd met so many men of…

— Julia Quinn

“Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which grow up ten years later into domestic hatred.”

— C.S. Lewis

“the weird possibility of marriage loomed. It loomed, in part, because there weren’t very many appealing models of what other kinds of female life…

— Rebecca Traister

“Growing up she had become used to allowing men the ability to curve themselves into question marks around her and hold her desperately as…

— R. YS Perez