30 Quotes by Jennifer Ryan

A sense of responsibility – or was it guilt? – hung over me, that I was in some way at fault because of cowering to all these pompous men all these years, when I should have had the bravery to reclaim my own mind. That if we women had done this years ago, before the last war, before this one, we’d be in a very different world.

If we don’t think about our death until we die, how can we decide how we want to live?

She is so excruciatingly well-meaning it makes me want to plunge her long face into a barrel of ale to perk her up.