84 Quotes by Winifred Holtby

Progress? It ought to be stopped, that’s what I say. If the Lord meant chickens to come out of incubators he’d never have made hens, it stands to reason.

Clever? who said that we all had to be clever? But we have to have courage. The whole position of women is what it is to-day, because so many of us have followed the line of least resistance, and have sat down placidly in a little provincial town, waiting to get married. No wonder that the men have thought that this is all that we are good for.

But to write – that is grief and labor; and to read what one has written – how unlike the story as one saw it; how dull, how spirtless – that is enough to send one weeping to bed.