Quote by Tom Stoppard

“ “We are frequently referred to as the gentler sex. Foolish notion. Women are far more vicious than men. We are simply better at…

— Elisa Braden

“none of us are good enough for Alfred,”

— Adriana Trigiani

“Why all this deference to Alfred, and Scanderbeg, and Gustavus? Suppose they were virtuous; did they wear out virtue?”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What's your problem with the Guild?" "The only way to resolve it involves me being entangled in running it and I don't want to…

— Ilona Andrews

“We spent ten thousand years perfecting gender, more: gendered clothing, gendered gestures, gendered language, gendered thought, a hundred thousand tools of seduction, so literally…

— Ada Palmer

“Previously, when I began to write this tale, I set out by saying that Mlle. Claude was a whore. She is a whore, of…

— Henry Miller

“I hated Alfred. He was a miserable, pious, tight-fisted king who distrusted me because I was no Christian, because I was a northerner, and…

— Bernard Cornwell

“Eternal woman: even in mourning, you want to make a strike, you want to seduce, you want to arouse interest!”

— Mariama Bâ

“How would Avelina, the daughter of a crippled former stable master and a lady’s maidservant, ever fool the Margrave of Thornbeck and all his…

— Melanie Dickerson

“No such private nights of ecstasy or hushed-up drinking and sex orgies ever occurred. They might have occurred if either General Dreedle or General…

— Joseph Heller

“Years later when she was being eccentric, had shed her corset and let her arse spread unhindered by anything but her perpetual dressing gown.”

— Peter Carey

“but that the conquest of her body, because of the central privacy in her, would each time have the sweet tang of rape.”

— Ian Fleming