Live alone Quote by Sophocles

“Bride had become the centre of his world. He was nothing without her. If he had to obey her every word for the rest…

— Gena Showalter

“I am not alone in this. I only let him do to me what men have ever done to women: march off to empty…

— Geraldine Brooks

“By degrees, he joins that sorry legion of passive men who abandon their children in order to placate their second wives.”

— Ian McEwan

“By my third try, Lady Aithra had lost her patience and brought me to stand before her son while he was in conference with…

— Esther M. Friesner

“Quickly and quietly, the Princess returned to the cottage, for she knew what she must do. The crone had sacrificed her eyes to provide…

— Kate Morton

“[Charlotte Bronte] had thought of every maneuver for circumventing those stony obstructions of wives who would not remove themselves.”

— Elizabeth Hardwick

“Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband. BEATRICE Not till God make men of some other metal than…

— William Shakespeare

“The king is dead,' I said, my voice cold and foreign. 'And you're going to be soon, too.' I'd kill her for this, for…

— Sarah J. Maas

“Lord. Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial:”

— Anonymous

“And she began the oft-told tale of a lady of imperial descent who could find no husband in the narrow circle where her pride…

— E.M. Forster

“I would be the master of my own fate. Me and the goddess Morrigan. No one else—and certainly no man.”

— Lesley Livingston

“I will conduct myself with all due decorum." Mr. Crepsley said pompously, then added beneath his breath, "but I will miss her. With all…

— Darren Shan