Slavery And Freedom Quote by Saul Bellow

“She was living in bad sociery; and, imaginary though it was, its influence affected her, for she was feeding heart and fancy on dangerous…

— Louisa May Alcott

“She was, in fact, one of those people of exalted principles; one of those opinionated puritans, of which England produces so many; one of…

— Guy de Maupassant

“At the same time he could hardly believe what he had been reading. It struck him as verging on madness. This wild confession, this…

— Barry Unsworth

“They ticked the boxes of a certain kind of enlightened, educated middle-classness, the love of dresses that were more interesting than pretty, the love…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“To talk of 'prizing her open' as if she were an oyster, to use any but the finest and subtlest and most pliable tools…

— Virginia Woolf

“In the wide pile, by others heeded not, Hers was one sacred solitary spot, Whose gloomy aisles and bending shelves contain For moral hunger…

— Walter Scott

“She thought of the boy thrown into the cauldron of war, the girl beset by various bigotries, her life in danger, and saw how…

— Nadeem Aslam

“What does he know of the half-starved wretches toiling from dawn till dark on the plantations? of mothers shrieking for their children, torn from…

— Harriet Jacobs

“Pile up gold, heap up silver, build covered walks, fill your house with slaves and the town with debtors, unless you lay to rest…

— Plutarch

“His wife had been wild about him at first; she had treated him with an amorous servility that had turned him against her all…

— Gustave Flaubert

“..he was 'nuts about her', as the parlance of the day had it, as if it were generally recognised that love and madness are…

— Jan Kjærstad

“Yet, feeling his way, starting by the passive opposition of small thefts, stealing sausage ends and crusts of bread when Signora Squeers was asleep,…

— William Bolitho