Acquiring things Quote by Clarice Lispector

These discovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became famous among women; for…

— Bible

She didn't know how to love, to give herself to someone, to out herself in someone else's keeping and take him into hers. She…

— Christine Feehan

Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself; for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own…

— Miguel de Cervantes

She had made him possible. In that sense she was his god. Like God, she was neglected.

— Jeanette Winterson

She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles chaining her…

— Edith Wharton

What parts had she discarded for the sake of her sanity? What had she cut from herself? Had he stared into her pupils he…

— Anthony Marra

“But to secure freedom, entire and absolute freedom, she was ever ready to make any sacrifice: ties affected her with a discomfort that seemed…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Not like a heart, which let people in without permission, held them in a special place she never had any say in and then…

— Cecelia Ahern

Yet there were times when he did love her with all the kindness she demanded, and how was she to know what were those…

— Pearl S. Buck

She had been a solitary child, and then solitary as a woman, drawn into an orbit of her own that took her away from…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

Oh, she doesn't belong to anybody now,' he said, and suddenly I saw her for what she was - a piece of refuse waiting…

— Graham Greene

“She was no malleable, since frigid, substance upon which desires might be executed; she was not a true prostitute for she was the object…

— Angela Carter