Victorian era Quote by Connie Willis Download Open image ““This is the Victorian era," she said. "Women didn't have to make sense.”” — Connie Willis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Victorian era
“She dearly hoped her gender would not be a problem because she did not have the time to educate a man on the fine… — Beverly Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Women were a whole other species when it came to understanding them.” — Millicent Ashby Copy Share Image
“She hadn't ascribed to this modern notion of equality between the sexes. Woman were patently superior.” — Laura Kinsale Copy Share Image
“women should act like they had a vocabulary and talk like they were ladies.” — Sonovia Alexander Copy Share Image
“I figured a woman can't be understood the way a man can. Women have purposes men can't even imagine.” — Craig Davidson Copy Share Image
“I realized that lacking the feminine, the language had communicated to me in subtle ways that women were nonentities, that women counted mostly as… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“Asked if she was a feminist, Louise said she wasn't sure, but she was a woman--her art couldn't help reflecting that.” — Jan Greenberg Copy Share Image
“Even the women began to see us as something so foreign to their community that nothing we said could possibly be of any relevance… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“Because I’m a woman. We get annoyed at all sorts of things that make no sense.” — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
“..She had started to understand how a woman's attention could succeed in making sense of a man's blind chaos..” — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“Women without men, I realized then, are totally different creatures.” — Shashi Deshpande Copy Share Image
“Cyril had staked out his claim and refused to move. "Move over!" I said, freeing one hand from holding the cat to push. "Dogs… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
Shakespeare put no children in his plays for a reason," Sir Godfrey muttered, glaring at Alf and Binnie. "You're forgetting the Little Prince," Polly… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
If King Harold had had swans on his side, England would still be Saxon. — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
“Sorry," he apologized. "I didn't mean to inflict my rantings on you, even though we are destined to spend the rest of our lives… — connie willis Copy Share Image
A Grand Design we couldn't see because we were part of it. A Grand Design we only got occasional, fleeting glimpses of. A Grand… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
“Well, at least she’s asserting herself, and you don’t have to worry about her having ‘squelched girl syndrome,’ ” she said. Mary Clare ignored that.” — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
“Show tunes are great. Stephen Sondheim. Rodgers and Hammerstein. Wicked. Rent. The Music Man. Almost any musical will do. Except Cats.” “Why? Doesn’t it… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
No," I said finally. "Slowness in Answering," she said into the handheld. "When's the last time you slept?" "1940" I said promptly, which is… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
When you're a writer, the question people always ask you is, "Where do you get your ideas?" Writers hate this question. It's like asking… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
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“You can't go yet, not without telling us what all's happened to you since we saw you last." I faked amnesia, nearly killed Alan… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
“In the mystifying world that was Victorian parenthood, obedience took precedence over all considerations of affection and happiness, and that odd, painful conviction remained… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“The Victorian era was an age of superlatives and larger-than-life characters, and as far as that goes, Dr. Wildman Whitehouse fit right in: what… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Wyoming got an Algonquian name from Pennsylvania meaning “large prairie,” but the adoption came only after a long fight. Decades before the settling of… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
You've probably heard about the theory of steam-engine time - that even after the steam engine had been invented, it had to wait until… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“Making friends is not a big deal. Replacing me with them after talking to them for only one bloody day is a big deal.” — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“For reasons I have yet to define, Signor Arpelli stood out from his colleagues. The curled brim of his hat, perhaps. A certain mingling… — Louis Bayard Copy Share Image
I was born in England and went to school there. That's when I discovered my undying passion for history - not just for the… — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
“IN THE TORRID London summer of 1886, William Gladstone was up against Benjamin Disraeli for the post of prime minister of the United Kingdom.… — Olivia Fox Cabane Copy Share Image
“He is only fifteen! Does she really think he is prepared for marriage, especially with his intellectual range of a teacup?” — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person following 1918… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
The Victorian era is the sexiest age for me, but I also like a woman in a pair of jeans. — Dylan McDermott Copy Share Image
“I AM the current curator of the black trunk and the stories it holds within.” — Hope Barrett Copy Share Image
