The Limbo Ladies Quotes

“They're cloying, with their sancity-of-marriage act.”
― Margaret Yorke, The Limbo Ladies

“looked out of her window at the road below and the glimpse of the Strand beyond. Buses and cars tore noisily by, and people jostled on the pavements. Life was down there, bustling and real: love, death, birth, misery and vice; and some joy, she supposed.”
― Margaret Yorke, The Limbo Ladies

“marvelled that you could live with a man for years and bear his children, yet remain quite remote from him.”
― Margaret Yorke, The Limbo Ladies

“Bless spinster Aunt Hilda, hitherto considered eccentric, once a suffragette, a schoolmistress, and finally a county councillor, now waving posthumously the wand of a fairy godmother.”
― Margaret Yorke, The Limbo Ladies

“When Sarah Marston learned that her Aunt Hilda had left her a cottage and two thousand pounds, she realised that at last she could leave her husband.”
― Margaret Yorke, The Limbo Ladies