Cynical Quote by Vera Brittain

“There were legions of her kind during the nineteen-thirties, women from the age of thirty and upward, who crowded into their war-bereaved spinsterhood with…

— Muriel Spark

“They were born, they grew up in the gutters, they went to work at twelve, they passed through a brief blossoming period of beauty…

— George Orwell

“The hours slipped by, and the men and the girls talked and talked as only communists of that wild and irresponsible period could talk…

— Jan Valtin

“...in one hundred years we have lost the best human virtues of the nineteenth century: fervent idealism and the primacy of feeling: the shock…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“Now—after years of knowing what real problems were, after living with a man who was cautiously loving but no longer fawningly committed, a man…

— Allison Winn Scotch

“These young men, in other words, represented a variety of types, but one thing they had in common was that they'd all given up…

— Ryū Murakami

“Just then things weren't going so well in my life. My business was precariously perched on the brink of bankruptcy, my anemic love life…

— William Lashner

“would place beside her in my mind’s eye the young competent woman, proud, courageous, and generous, I’d known as a child. I was living…

— Jill Ker Conway

“Therefore, we call on women to arise and stand firm, the era of relegating us to the background where we remain unnoticed and unimportant…

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

“Curious thing that the younger men of today were glib enough when they talked of ideals and how everyone must progress in a changing…

— Daphne du Maurier

“The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual…

— Anonymous

“...the very old men [...] believing that they had danced with her and courted her perhaps, confusing time with its mathematical progression, as the…

— William Faulkner