Dangerous Times on Dressmakers' Alley Quotes

“It is research, Susie. If you want a man to respect your ideas, you must do your research. When I present his lordship with my business plan. he may not refuse it as a whim”
― Rosie Clarke, Dangerous Times on Dressmakers' Alley

“Life hadn't always been fair to her, but she wouldn't let it get her down. The future looked so much brighter and, as Mary had said, there was no point in dwelling on the past”
― Rosie Clarke, Dangerous Times on Dressmakers' Alley

“You're a different girl to the one I first met. You've got purpose in your step and you want to get on in life, but you've learned the meaning of love and kindness, haven't you?”
― Rosie Clarke, Dangerous Times on Dressmakers' Alley

“I am grateful, Mary, and I'm fond of you too. You showed me that there was a way to be happy, even if I could never have the things I thought I wanted”
― Rosie Clarke, Dangerous Times on Dressmakers' Alley

“It makes me so angry. Women have the right to lives their lives without fear of attack or being forced into things they don't want to do, Sam”
― Rosie Clarke, Dangerous Times on Dressmakers' Alley

“It will be done discreetly, of course - but the idea that a lady cannot work is truly outdated, Susie. Women of all stations worked hard throughout the war; many ladies of good breeding became nurses and ambulance drivers, women of all classes did so many things they would not have dreamed of before...”
― Rosie Clarke, Dangerous Times on Dressmakers' Alley

“This is just one small part of what we do. People who believe we simply parade up and down and chain ourselves to railings know nothing of the secret lives we lead, exposing the illegal treatment of women wherever we find it”
― Rosie Clarke, Dangerous Times on Dressmakers' Alley

“She would very much have liked to claim her as a friend, but Susie knew her place and could not be coerced into forgetting herself. She considered herself privileged to have her ladyship's confidence, but even though they often laughed together, there was a line beyond which she would not go”
― Rosie Clarke, Dangerous Times on Dressmakers' Alley

“Winnie thought the fashion was almost a symbol of the new-found freedom many women now enjoyed”
― Rosie Clarke, Dangerous Times on Dressmakers' Alley