Chapter-5 Quote by Margaret Atwood

“They wore blouses with buttons down the front that suggested the possibilities of the word undone . These women could be undone; or not.…

— Margaret Atwood

“We were a society dying, said Aunt Lydia, of too much choice.”

— Margaret Atwood

“Women: i liked the color of their clothing; the ay they alked; the cruelty in some faces; now and then the almost pure beauty…

— Charles Bukowski

“But she had learnt, in those solemn hours of thought, that she herself must one day answer for her own life, and what she…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“In an era where women undress their outfits & give their bodies so carelessly, become the rare wild woman that undresses her mind and…

— Nikki Rowe

“They were not unfortunate girls who, as outcasts or in the belief that they were cast out by society, grieved wholesomely and intensely and,…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“Everything that she had wanted for Lydia, which Lydia had never wanted but had embraced anyway. A dull chill creeps over her. Perhaps—and this…

— Celeste Ng

“The unconscious fabric of human destiny had done with her, unraveling all her grievances and reweaving them as joyous circumstance.”

— Michelle Franklin

“And then there was Lydia. Lydia who had hurtled into his life – into their lives – with hair like fire, eyes like amethysts…

— Dianna Hardy

“It was, she believed, a simple and unassailable fact of life that if a woman went to epic lengths to throw herself on the…

— Nicholas Evans

“The world lay before her—she could do whatever she chose. There was a deep thrill in it all, but for the present her choice…

— Henry James

“Without knowing it he drew a very pleasant picture of an affectionate, happy family who lived unpretentiously in circumstances of moderate affluence at peace…

— W. Somerset Maugham