10 Quotes by Henry Handel Richardson

For out of it all rose the vague, crude picture of woman as the prey of man. Man was animal, a composite of lust and cruelty, with no aim but that of brutally taking his pleasure: something monstrous, yet to be adored; annihilating, yet to be sought after; something to flee and, at the same time, to entice, with every art at one's disposal.

Laura began to model herself more and more on those around her; to grasp that the unpardonable sin is to vary from the common mould.

After all, there was something rather pleasant in knowing that you were misunderstood. It made you feel different from everyone else.

Oh my eye Betty Martin! Aren't I glad it isn't me that's going to school! It looks just like a prison.

She could not then know that, even for the squarest peg, the right hole may ultimately be found

That most sensitive, most delicate of instruments – the mind of a little child!

In health, in the bustle of living, it was easy to believe in heaven and a life to come. But when the blow fell, and those you loved passed into the great Silence, where you could not get at them, or they at you, then doubts, aching doubts took possession of one.

There are enough women to do the childbearing and the childrearing. I know of none who can write my books.

The truth that could be extracted from words was such a fluctuating, relative truth.