#gen

I wish I could find MY books listed on GOODREADS - DODGING JOE, THE WOMAN WHO WOULDN'T EXPLAIN, THE BITTER GRAPES - ll available through Amazon and Createspace - ↗

— Saaskia Aark-Bennett

#general-giction #love #murder #treachery #love

The Hikayat belongs to ALL of us. To love. To share. To cherish. ↗

— ninotaziz

#legends #love

Never wish a legendary love; you don’t know who hard is to have a simple one. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#love #never #simple #wish #love

Eugenics, as discussed, evidently means the control of some men over the marriage and unmarriage of others; and probably means the control of the few over the marriage and unmarriage of the many ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#marriage

Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender. ↗

— Hendrik Hertzberg

#homophobia #homosexuality #marriage #same-sex-marriage #marriage

There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?" "Are you a young lady?" "I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will be treated. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#expectations #gender #honesty #independence #influence

He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you. ↗

— Megan Whalen Turner

#eugenides #love #marriage #royalty #love

I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand -- they only. Know this at last. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#conscience #courtship #dignity #empowerment #feminism

And it was during this period that Madeleine fully understood how the lover's discourse was of an extreme solitude. The solitude was extreme because it wasn't physical. It was extreme because you felt it while in the company of the person you loved. It was extreme because it was in your head, the most solitary of places. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#the-marriage-plot #love

One thing I learned, between addiction and depression? Depression a lot worse. Depression ain't something you just get off of. You can't get clean from depression. Depression be like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch where it hurts. It always be there, though. Darlene, in The Marriage Plot ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#the-marriage-plot #marriage