I write mainly for the kindly race of women. I am their sister, and in no way exempt from their sorrowful lot. I have drank [sic] ...the cup of their limitations to the dregs, and if my experience can help any sad or doubtful woman to outleap her own shadow, and to stand bravely out in the sunshine to meet her destiny, whatever it may be, I shall have done well; I have not written this book in vain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"When I used to read fairy tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one! There ought... to be a book written about me, that there ought! And when I grow up, I'll write one--but I'm grown up now," she added in a sorrowful tone: "At least there's no room to grow up any more here."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Madame Pertelote, my worldes bliss, Harkneth these blissful birdes how they sing,... And see the freshe flowers how they spring; Full is mine heart of revel and solace!' But suddenly him fell a sorrowful case, For ever the latter end of joy is woe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O harmless Death! whom still the valiant brave, The wise expect, the sorrowful invite,... And all the good embrace, who know the grave A short dark passage to eternal light.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How can the physique be braced if no fresh breath from the outer world is suffered to permeate the languid, enervating air of the ...drawing-room? How can the grasp of the mind be vigorous, without action? Daughters of inherited wealth, or accumulated labor! the wide door of philanthropy is open peculiarly to you! Your life-work lies beyond your threshold: your wealth has placed you above the sorrowful struggle for daily bread which takes up the whole time of so many of your brothers and sisters. You are the almoners of God. A double accountability is yours.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
More happy love! more happy, happy love! For ever warm and still to be enjoyed,... For ever panting, and for ever young; All breathing human passion far above, That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloyed, A burning forehead, and a parching tongue.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What lies behind facts like these: that so recently one could not have said Scott was not perfect without earning at least sorrowf...ul disapproval; that a year after the Gang of Four were perfect, they were villains; that in the fifties in the United States a nothing-man called McCarthy was able to intimidate and terrorise sane and sensible people, but that in the sixties young people summoned before similar committees simply laughed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And deep into her crystal body poured The hot and sorrowful sweetness of the dust:... Whereof she wanders mad, being all unfit For mortal love, that might not die of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In a certain sense, women who write fiction and political feminists comes from two different camps. One is interested in change an...d revolution; the other, women who write serious fiction, believe that life doesn't change that much, that we all struggle perennially with the same old painful issues that are true for all people: how to deal with unexplained suffering, how to survive a sorrowful universe, how to heal yourself, how to restore yourself when that seems difficult and impossible (given what life deals out to people). That's not a very revolutionary approach to take--to speak of sorrow and suffering as inevitable and as part of the human condition. And yet all serious writers have always spoken that way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »