The Awakening of Alice Quotes

“I look forward to making you feel the same way. It’s a most enjoyable sensation, like honey in the bones, and if you were a real woman instead of a repressed little English spinster, you would delight in your ability to make a man feel — aroused.’

She backed away from him, feeling a distracted urge to hide herself away from him, as she used to when a child and relatives made a fuss of Alberta because she was much prettier.”
― Violet Winspear, The Awakening of Alice

“Don’t be a little fool,’ he said curtly. ‘It really is time you started to enjoy being a woman, and if there weren’t enjoyment in it the human race would have come to an end a long time ago.’

‘As if men ever cared one way or the other,’ she rejoined. ‘All most of you care about are sex symbols to gawk at, and maternal types to see after your comforts. I don’t know into what category I fit, unless it’s paramour!”
― Violet Winspear, The Awakening of Alice

“I am what I appear to be, Mr Kassandros. I am inhibited and shy, and I don’t go in for swinging affairs and casual abortions. I live a quiet life in my London flat and I work as a commercial artist. I can’t keep a real cat in the old-maid tradition, so I have a china one with a long neck and big eyes. When I can afford a seat at the theatre I go alone, but I lack the gall to sit alone in a restaurant, and our lovely old Lyons Corner Houses have become gambling halls. I also lack whatever it is that men like and I have long since resigned myself to life alone — but if I ever loved a man, it wouldn’t be because he has money, or because he couldn’t make love to me. I’m not frigid! I’m just on guard against being hurt!”
― Violet Winspear, The Awakening of Alice

“What I am is my own business.’

‘Not any more.’ He let his voice sink down meaningfully on the words. ‘You are now my business — mine to control just as I fancy.”
― Violet Winspear, The Awakening of Alice