Communication Quote by Karen Witemeyer

“Had we but World enough, and Time, This coyness Lady were no crime. We would sit down, and think which way To walk, and…

— Andrew Marvell

“This would have been the perfect time to continue with his ravishment scheme. He could lay siege to her virginal clothing. Ruthlessly dismantle her…

— Tessa Dare

“Mrs. Kersey had not been questioned at all, as far as I knew. She had the air of someone with a story all made…

— Leslie Ford

“[Charlotte Bronte] had thought of every maneuver for circumventing those stony obstructions of wives who would not remove themselves.”

— Elizabeth Hardwick

“Now for a handful of guilders I happen to have a private and uncut performance of the rape of the Sabine Women - or…

— Tom Stoppard

“but that the conquest of her body, because of the central privacy in her, would each time have the sweet tang of rape.”

— Ian Fleming

“And when her so-called barbarian husband finished donning it all, she’d struggled against the desire to rip it off of him again. Together,”

— Vivienne Savage

“It all sounds much crazier now than it did at the time, but even back then I wasn't sure how Ann could possibly believe…

— Sigrid Núñez

“Bel dames spent most of their time running after criminals in dingy, unfiltered cities, making enemies with other bel dames whose notes they stole,…

— Kameron Hurley

“I couldn't exactly blame Jane Austen for being a romantic. What the hell else was there to do back then for fun?”

— Kristin Walker

“Her fault had been in trying to keep it as tight as a mistress might. All a wife needed was a little more subtlety,…

— Jean Plaidy

“Jane Austen never repeats herself.”

— Mary Lascelles