Margaret Way > Quotes

“I said he kissed me. Really kissed me. It rocked me to my soul. It was brutal. It was brilliant. It was horrible. I thought I was going to die.”
― Margaret Way, Genni's Dilemma

“I have a natural tendency to go away when told to do so. Do you really want me to?”
― Margaret Way, Bauhinia Junction

“It's quite commonplace for a young man to fall in love and equally commonplace for him to be rejected, but come what may, I'll always be fond of you.”
― Margaret Way, Bauhinia Junction

“Woman magic. A quality that could bring great joy or havoc or both in equal measure.”
― Margaret Way, Her Outback Man

“I don't love you, you know. I'm merely crazy about you.”
― Margaret Way, The Girl at Cobalt Creek

“It may come as an extraordinary shock to you but you're the only woman who has ever succeeded in getting under my skin. It could be because you're a raving lunatic.”
― Margaret Way, Hunt the Sun

“Being abandoned doesn't make for little angels.”
― Margaret Way, The Australian's Society Bride

“Certain women because of their female power and seductiveness could bring destruction to a family.”
― Margaret Way, Her Outback Man

“You're the hero my young romantic heart settled on so long ago, you're an absolute tiger at times, you're devious and not above playing a few tricks. I love you whatever you are all the time. I've loved you for ten years without stopping. I'll love you for as long as I have breath in my body. I'm committed to one man and I'm ready to face real life with him.”
― Margaret Way, Hunt the Sun

“The nicest men in the world were horribly cruel. They took no great pleasure from it, it was just part of being a male, with a perpetual deep gulf between the sexes.”
― Margaret Way, A Lesson in Loving

“You make me come alive- too alive. It's breathless, like a disaster. Ravishing, like crossing over into the desert and losing your bearings. Nothing's the same again.”
― Margaret Way, Black Ingo

“Keeping one's guests supplied with liquor is the first law of hospitality.”
― Margaret Way, Bauhinia Junction

“Every man is a bachelor out of his wife's sight!”
― Margaret Way, A Lesson in Loving

“She was no intellectual, but men were scrupulous about avoiding intellectual women unless they had the sense to keep it well hidden.”
― Margaret Way, A Lesson in Loving

“Woman, thy name is perversity!”
― Margaret Way, Wanita Misterius Owen

“She was so shattered about what kind of man he was -- brutal, tender, passionate. There was little doubt he had some mental disorder.”
― Margaret Way, The Girl at Cobalt Creek

“There are more good women in the world than there are men worthy of them!”
― Margaret Way, Bauhinia Junction

“Ingo was a fever, and so far she hadn't found the antidote.”
― Margaret Way, Black Ingo

“Men-what arrogance! That was the worst of them. Forget the sexual hold they had on you. They would never liberate women at all.”
― Margaret Way, Hunter's Moon

“Women weren't to be trusted. Or forgiven. Men weren't to be trusted either. Not a woman alive would dispute that.”
― Margaret Way, Cattle Baron: Nanny Needed

“You have got a sharp tongue, haven't you honey? You'll have to watch it or you'll go to a lonely spinster's grave.”
― Margaret Way, Bauhinia Junction

“The battle of the sexes and you're winning hands down.”
― Margaret Way, A Lesson in Loving

“I know some women go in for excitement and danger. It must make them feel more alive. It's my professional judgment that you're a dangerous man.”
― Margaret Way, Strategy for Marriage

“I know essentially you're some kind of enchantress. Maybe you're still serving your apprenticeship, but you're an enchantress all right. Probably I'd get used to you in time. Right now, it's only my demonic will that's keeping me playing it mighty cool.”
― Margaret Way, A Lesson in Loving

“Two brothers. Two different worlds. Different mothers, of course. Did that explain it? Women usually explained everything.”
― Margaret Way, A Lesson in Loving

“Sometimes she couldn't tolerate a man's physical superiority. No wonder they were so damned macho.”
― Margaret Way, The Carradine Brand

“Sleeping with a woman is easy. Loving her is an entirely different thing.”
― Margaret Way, A Faulkner Possession

“Men were notorious for their acts of disloyalty.”
― Margaret Way, Eagle's Ridge

“Women were the very devil, at the mercy of their frail strength.”
― Margaret Way, A Lesson in Loving

“Tall, elegant, vital, scornful. A man like that could rock a woman to her very core.”
― Margaret Way, Strategy for Marriage