Character Quote by Michael Robotham

“She's sociopathic. She will have no moral compunction in doing whatever is in her interests. It's as simple as that.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

“So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you…

— Ernest Hemingway

“The morals of societies are defined by how they treat a strange woman.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“A woman who knew her own mind and scorned the conventions of polite society. We were going to get along just fine.”

— Gail Honeyman

“She is a selfish, hypocritical woman, and I have no opinion of her.”

— Jane Austen

“At times she's so basic, at others so wise it frightens me that I got so far in this world without the benefit of…

— Diane Keaton

“Never subject to the rules, believing that the correct judgement and healthy nature keep her in the honesty she lived in.”

— Émile Zola

“Class Act. She's a first class act, graced with refinement and tact. But hold on! She has a beastly witty mind, a feral appetite…

— Melody Lee

“Stop thinking about class, she'd say. Like a rich man telling a poor man to stop thinking about money.”

— John Fowles

“I have to live for others and not for myself: thats middle class morality.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“You have a choice," she told the class. "The whorish emptiness of lies or the straightlaced horrors of truth.”

— Lorrie Moore

“But what she had always imagined were the two basic ingredients of happy adulthood, intellectual companionship and thrilling sex, are missing too.”

— Charlotte Mendelson