Baggage Quote by Elizabeth Hardwick

“Seeing the ease and security in which these people were living, I felt that this close resemblance of the sexes was after all what…

— H.G.Wells

“through life, so carrying”

— William Blaikie

“The part of the tradition that I knew best was mostly written (or rewritten for children) in England and northern Europe. The principal characters…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“So long as government and law provide for the security and well-being of men in their common life, the arts, literature and the sciences,…

— Jean-Jaques Rousseau

“Kate had always known that she herself was a strong woman. But it never occured to her that there were strong women everywhere, living…

— Chris Pavone

“My visit to Her Highness was an agreeable surprise for me. Instead of being ushered into the presence of an over-decorated woman, sporting diamond…

— Manu S. Pillai

“In happiness and misery, remember one thing. Sex and wealth are the great symbols of manhood. They are inspiring symbols. They sustain life. But…

— Anonymous

“Women carry the burden of the family’s survival on their backs.”

— Phyllis T. Smith

Such figures as Boy George do not disturb me nearly so much as do those relentlessly hetero (sexual?) keepers of the keys and seals,…

— James A. Baldwin

“Oh, I heard enough of her when I lived chambermaid with the Stuarts: they say she has no more respect for Lord Portmore than…

— Emily Eden

“The lightest weight anyone can carry on life’s journey is hope.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Three weird sisters in an antifeminist trifecta, they each celebrated in their books the strapping male as a hero, and exhibited a striking dissociation…

— Caroline Fraser