Forbidden fruit Quote by Miriam Brenaman

“Was that all her religious beliefs had ever been then, a set of precepts so deeply inculcated in her that they became automatic, even…

— Hillary Jordan

“It seemed to me when I wrote The Life and Loves of a She-Devil that women were so much in the habit of being…

— Fay Weldon

“You were the devil’s daughter even then, you just lacked the experience to fully express your natural outrageousness.”

— Mary Jo Putney

“People are so like their first mother Eve: what they are given doesn't take their fancy. The serpent is forever enticing them to come…

— Alexander Pushkin

“Not since the serpent approached Eve in the Garden had a woman been so tempted by forbidden fruit.”

— Teresa Medeiros

“The Devil teaches women what they are – or they would teach it to the Devil if he did not know.”

— Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

“In moments of unmet desire, heartbreak, or grief, Satan sends a poisonous arrow of doubt straight at your heart. This was his plan with…

— Marian Jordan Ellis

“His staff had shaken hands with her as though a woman was merely another kind of man. Fools! The seeds of Eve were in…

— Mervyn Peake

“...he was so horribly unhuman, that one shuddered to think that tender women and fair children must, of necessity, confess to fellowship of kind…

— Marcus Clarke

“The snake who tempted Eve to eat the forbidden fruit was not the Devil, but her own instinctive nature saying, Honor your hunger and…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“Perhaps if a father watches his children starve to death in his arms, he might welcome the devil himself.”

— Tim Tzouliadis

“I want to go to the mother, take her hand, and tell her that although she and her daughter believe that every bad choice…

— Sarah Bird