Crisis Quote by Thomas Hardy

Interesting" people were her favorite hobby. She collected them: the type who did gay things late at night and smoked cigarettes in mixed company,…

— Anna Godbersen

“It was piecework, and she was apt to have a family to keep alive; and stern and ruthless economic laws had arranged it that…

— Upton Sinclair

“But her mother was one of those weakest of women who can never forget the beauty they once possessed, or quite believe they have…

— George MacDonald

“She had impeccable beauty — the sort of woman who men started wars over. Wars where thousands died.”

— Armada West

“what she hated above all was that most men in her presence wilted, grew small and feeble. only the timid ones approached her, as…

— anaïs nin

“People made no sense to her. Men, with whom she had everything in common, did not want her around. Women, with whom she had…

— Philipp Meyer

“She admired all these women who were mothers. My God, you had to be devilishly careful not to say the wrong thing.”

— Dörthe Binkert

“But this woman was all mother. A stern one, perhaps, and autocratic at times, and somewhat hard--but after all and in spite of all,…

— Nancy Byrd Turner

“She was the kind of woman who made a sport of finding fault with other people; her favorite target being me. I wasn’t good…

— Clara James

“She was emotionally retarded having no sense of humour, cold and no people skills. She was like her mother was obsessed by appearances and…

— Annette J Dunlea

“My mother always pouted that it was actually her paintings and not her charm, her beauty or her sass that made him fall in…

— Tammara Webber

“(…) the New Woman of the 1920s boldly asserted her right to dance, drink, smoke, and date—to work her own property, to live free…

— Joshua Zeitz