Quote by Kate Atkinson Download Open image ““Lily was a Fabian, a society suffragette who risked nothing”” — Kate Atkinson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Lily was a Fabian, a society suffragette who risked nothing for her beliefs.” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Lily sank with a sigh into one of the shabby leather chairs. "How delicious to have a place like this all to one's self!… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“In a society that valued politeness over truth, where malice and subterfuge were commonplace, even accepted, Lily’s frankness was labeled an eccentricity of her… — Mary Campisi Copy Share Image
“But of course, she remembered, that was why women were so wonderful; it was their love and imagination that transformed these unremarkable beings. For… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
“She believed being so free with her sexuality was empowering, but I wouldn't say taking home a douchebag who would laugh about the encounter… — Teresa Lo Copy Share Image
“Why must a girl pay so dearly for her least escape," Lily muses as she contemplates the prospect of being bored all afternoon by… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“The suffragettes didn't starve themselves for the vote, so that you girls could starve yourselves for a man.” — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“She did not want to be a cliché or hackneyed example of an inner-city girl. She wanted to battle against the forces of poverty,… — Colleen Smith-Dennis Copy Share Image
“But knowing that things could be worse should not stop us from trying to make them better. When the suffragettes marched in the streets,… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
The suffragettes were women of action. Their motto was "Deeds not Words," and the film reflects that with a number of big set pieces,… — Sarah Gavron Copy Share Image
“The woman who realizes that she is bound by a million Lilliputian threads in an attitude of impotence and hatred masquerading as tranquility and… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“she had fought hotly against injustice, vanity, and blind, towering stupidity. Occasionally, on the battlefield where death was a reality, she had won. But… — Anne Perry Copy Share Image
“Sweet sixteen," Hugh said, kissing her affectionately. "Happy birthday, little bear. Your future's all ahead of you." Ursula still harbored the feeling that some… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
When you chopped logs with the ax and they split open they smelled beautiful, like Christmas. But when you split someone's head open it… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“He had made a vow, a private promise to the world in the long dark watches of the night, that if he did survive… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“When she was little they had lived in an old farmhouse too, in the middle of nothing of but landscape.” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Do you keep time in the same place that you save it? If so why is it always so difficult to find? It must… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
I was on the verge of something numinous and profound and in one more second the universe was going to crack open and arcana… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
I feel as if I’m waiting for something dreadful to happen, and then I realize it already has. — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“If she had been in charge of designing the human race she would have gone about things differently. (A golden shaft of light through… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories. — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
I don't want to spoil the magic, but it's a very curious thing that honestly baffles me. It's the nearest we'll ever get to… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“What did science ever do for the world, apart from make better ways of killing people?” Sylvie said.” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
