Betrayal Quote by Marianne Thormählen

“Jane felt that he would write from the depths of a wretchedness that would not necessarily be insincere because its outward signs were so…

— Barbara Pym

“The power of human habit never failed to astonish her. How was it that two intelligent, decent people who basically loved each other could…

— Nicholas Evans

“Mary, throughout her life, sought her friendships with women. She was attracted to sisterly relationships where she, a queen since birth, was naturally deferred…

— Jane Dunn

“That loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable-- that one false step involves her in endless ruin-- that her reputation is no less…

— Jane Austen

“Sentiment would undo her - each of its ties were a tether that would hold her from her purpose. Men, perhaps, might nourish both…

— Rachel Kadish

“It had always struck her as wrong that we should judge ourselves-or, more usually, others-by single acts, as if a single snapshot said anything…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“She herself, she said, had visited the very depths of disillusionment in the male character by being honest in precisely this way: men who…

— Rachel Cusk

“Why do women love bad men? Margaret had asked the question herself, and answered it, in Woman in the Nineteenth Century. The belief that…

— Megan Marshall

“Jane Austen had created six heroines, each quite different, and that gave Charlotte courage. There wasn't just one kind of woman to be.”

— Shannon Hale

“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

“She had learned that when people were bent on doing something they believed was a good deed, it was usually impossible to dissuade them.”

— Celeste Ng

“Did Jane Austen ruin lives by giving people false expectations about love? Were her heroes just too good to be true? Could a real…

— Victoria Connelly