Elena Blanco > Elena's Quotes

“Margaret liked that her daughter knew her own mind and wasn’t afraid to speak it. It was an underappreciated quality in women”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“Had we waited for men to give us the vote”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“Books sprung from an author’s imagination can be just as meaningful as those based on facts”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“said that “the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.” She couldn’t have agreed more. However”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“It’s a man’s world”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“The only good thing about my job is the paycheck. But what can you do?” he asked”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“Hearing words isn’t necessarily the same as understanding them”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“How can a home be happy if the homemaker isn’t?”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“It’s not. It’s smart. It’s what men do. Why do you think they join all those clubs—the Elks? The VFW? The Masons? Congress!” she cried. “To support one another”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“Viv sat rapt as King spoke”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“I stood holding the note with that funny little abandoned feeling one gets a million times a day in a domestic setting. I could have cried”
― Miranda July, All Fours

“Without a child I could dance across the sexism of my era”
― Miranda July, All Fours

“Sometimes I could hear Harris’s dick whistling impatiently like a teakettle”
― Miranda July, All Fours

“This breakdown of communication was very depressing to me.”
― Elif Batuman, The Idiot

“depravity and decadence.”
― Elif Batuman, The Idiot

“It was a mystery to me how Svetlana generated so many opinions. Any piece of information seemed to produce an opinion on contact. Meanwhile”
― Elif Batuman, The Idiot

“The feeling of having betrayed someone was just as bad as the feeling of being betrayed. It was worse.”
― Elif Batuman, The Idiot