Respect Quote by Lionel Shriver

“She found herself suddenly surrounded by a host of assumptions. It was assumed that she trembled for joy in his presence, languished in his…

— Vita Sackville-West

“When one was with her she could almost persuade one that there was something cowardly and despicable in any emotional dodging, in any refusal…

— Caroline Blackwood

“Without any display of doing more than the rest, or any fear of doing too much, he was always true to her interests and…

— Jane Austen

“Her attitude was that of some one who wishes to be concealed as much as possible from observation […] her whole body and voice…

— Virginia Woolf

“You could see that her tremendous inside life, its solitary fears and fires, was out of accord with her humble view of herself; to…

— Elizabeth Bowen

“whenever she felt besieged by doubts, she would think of herself as standing valiantly alone, as almost heroic, so as to squash her uncertainty.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Never in her life had she beheld his equal in form, strength, or grace, but it wasn’t just the unexpected sight of him. He…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“He knew that she took life as it came, opposed her tough-fibered mind to whatever obstacles there might be, fought on with a determination…

— Margaret Mitchell

“she had been interested in many things, but nothing had completely satisfied her; indeed, she hardly desired complete satisfaction. Her intellect was at the…

— Anton Chekhov

“This was her original state; and then, as I was saying, and as the lovers of knowledge are well aware, philosophy, seeing how terrible…

— Plato

“She said little in answer to the strenuous Pressures with which at last he ventur’d to enfold her, but not thinking it Decent, for…

— Eliza Haywood

“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