Courage Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“She fought for the right to love, men and women, rejecting the conventions that marriage demands exclusive love, and that women should love only…

— Nigel Nicolson

“The debris of her married life was enough to sever the tie between reality and dreams, the fine line between desire and temptation. Where…

— Callie Hunter

“There was a lot to be said for the discipline of married life. It forced one to learn the art of compromise, and to…

— John Connolly

“Another and less elevated lesson she had learned in married life was that if she wheedled long enough and discreetly enough, she quite often…

— Winston Graham

“She did not want to be greater than her husband: what she did want was that he should acknowledge her as his equal, with…

— Maude Casey

“He had swept her off her feet then, and was all charm and charisma but then the magic slowly diminished and finally died due…

— Neena H. Brar

“Fifteen years of yes's had beaten Mrs. Gilbert. Fifteen further years of that incessant unaffirmative affirmative, accompanied by the perpetual flicking of ash-mushrooms from…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“There were three of these women, separated by short intervals of pain, remorse, and despair. When he and the last one had their final…

— Andre Dubus

“How was it that her whole life could be distilled down to that simple truth? Words mattered. Her life had been defined by things…

— Kristen Hannah

“the wife who could be contented with but one half of her husband’s affections, had never deserved to engage the slightest share of them.”

— Walter Scott

“She had always given too much of her life over to relationships, and they’d never quite worked out. Now she was simplifying her life…

— Jack Ketchum

“and the Prospect of that continued Bliss she expected to share with him, took from her all Remorse for having engaged in an Affair…

— Eliza Haywood