Dorothy Richardson Quotations

If there was a trick, there must be a trickster.

The question was not how to get a job, but how to live by such jobs as I could get.

Deep down in everyone was sorrow and certainty.

It will all go on as long as women are stupid enough to go on bringing men into the world. . .

Quotations are feeble; you always regret making them.

The joy of a party is the newness of people to each other, renewed strikingness of humanity. They love each other, to distraction. Really to distraction. Before they fall into conversation and separate. ... The strangeness, and the hopes aroused by strangeness, are illusions. Mirages arising wherever people gather expectantly together.

until it had been clearly explained that men were always and always partly wrong in all their ideas, life would be full of poison and secret bitterness. Men fight about their philosophies and religions, there is no certainty in them; but their contempt for women is flawless and unanimous.

Men would always rather be made love to than talked at.

Marriage is not an institution, it is an intuition.

People is themselves when they are children, and not again till they know they'm dying.