Monuments Quote by E.M. Forster

“In her writings, she despises her fellow man and woman for representing what she had lost.”

— Lilian Pizzichini

“She wanted to get some personal profit out of things, and she rejected as useless all that did not contribute to the immediate desires…

— Gustave Flaubert

“She had achieved the elusiveness that gives hidden significance to the least significant remarks.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“She made a long and detailed tour with no planned itinerary, stopping with no other motive than her unhurried delight in the spirit of…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“At every step of her rise, she did the work long before she was granted the title. It was like advancing through empty rooms.…

— Ayn Rand

“She had some kind of foolish and unreasonable notion that the more doggedly she stood, the more would she placate certain mysterious powers which…

— Cora Sandel

“I pity, approve, respect, admire her, but I neither desire her company, nor am greatly concerned about her destiny, and she makes me impatient…

— A.C. Bradley

“an indication that she didn’t have any true emotions. She talked loud and was stubborn as hell, but she loved hard. When the people…

— Jackie Chanel

“She had interviewed leading personalities all over the world. Fame was sufficiently novel for me to be flattered by the company I would be…

— Henry Kissinger

“...what woman has ever stopped by a want of information? She felt. And despised him for not acting in accordance with her feelings.”

— John le Carré

“She found it curious and frightening that she could deeply dislike someone she didn’t even know. It wasn’t her. At least, it wasn’t how…

— Veronica Rossi

“She hated the namelessness of women in stories, as if they lived and died so that men could have metaphysical insights.”

— Chad Harbach