16 Quotes by Eva Figes

Nothing comes back. The eye sees for a moment, the ear hears, but look, now it is gone.

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.

It is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done by.

The much vaunted male logic isnt logical, because they display prejudices - against half the human race - that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.

There is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done by.

But the gates of my happy childhood had clanged shut behind me; I had become adult enough to recognize the need to conceal unbearable emotions for the sake of others.

grievance does not make for great art.

For centuries the word 'nature' has been used to bolster prejudices or to express, not reality, but a state of affairs that the user would wish to see.

Monarchs not only fashion their age, but are fashioned by it, so that they can become a sort of personification of the age. If Elizabeth I, independent, strong, represents the age of Shakespeare's heroines, a woman's heyday, Victoria represents another image of womanhood, predominant in the nineteenth century: a woman who, although queen in her own right, leaned on her husband, looked up to him, and went into perpetual mourning after his death. The feminist movement filled her with shocked horror and outrage.