17 quotes found
“In childbirth grief begins.”
“Old loves are dropped when new ones come”
“Not yet do you feel it. Wait for the future.”
“Mortal fate is hard. You'd best get used to it.”
“Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.”
“O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong?”
“Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.”
“Not for the first time I find our lives are a shadow, and I am not afraid to say that people who think they have everything figured out and are masters of logic - they are responsible for the great...”
“Of all creatures that can feel and think,we women are the worst treated things alive”
“or else I would have sung a songin response to what the male sex sings.For our lengthy past has much to sayabout men's lives as well as ours”
“For in other ways a woman is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold steel; but, when once she is wronged in the matter of love, no other soul can hold so many thoughts of blood.”
“Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.”
“To me, a wicked man who is also eloquent seems the most guilty of them all. He'll cut your throat as bold as brass, because he can dress up murder in handsome words.”
“Gone is the trust to be placed in oaths; I cannot understand if the gods you swore by then no longer rule, or men live by new standards of what is right.”
“Who can stop grief's avalanche once it starts to roll.”
“Better a humble heart, a lowly life. Untouched by greatness let me live - and live. Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.”
“I'd three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once.”
