The Book Club for Troublesome Women Quotes

“Novels force you to think—to make your own conclusions about characters and themes, and decide if they’re valid or relevant or true or good, or the opposite, or maybe somewhere in between. My”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“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, that's why. Why do you think they call them booster clubs? Because they're trying to boost each other over the wall or bend the rules in their favor, help the group.
If women stuck up for one another the way men do, this would be a very different world.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“The book didn't solve the problem but it did put a name to it. Shining a light that helped women who felt isolated and powerless find one another - and their voices. That has been the very start of every revolution.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“Nearly every generation can point to an unanticipated event that divided time into before and after, a day after which the world would never be the same, when the markets crashed, or bombs dropped, or wars began, or towers fell.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“Think of it this way, Maggie. If you let us give you a boost today, then someday maybe you’ll be in a position to do the same for someone else. We’ve got to start someplace. If we don’t, how is anything ever going to change?”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“The invisible fence of rules and mores that confined women to a small, carefully defined patch of human achievement impacted men as well, required them to carry the bulk of a family’s financial burden, even if it meant doing work they disliked.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“If women stuck up for one another the way men do, this would be a very different world.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“there are countless good and right ways to be a woman and only two wrong. The first is to insist that your way is “the” way, the only way. The second is to buy into that nonsense and to spend your life limping along an aimless path in shoes that will never fit.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“Examining thoughts and ideas that can impact your life is the whole point of reading,”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“Having faith in yourself,” Alice said, “believing you have as much right to be in the room as anybody else, is half the battle.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“Look I'm not saying you have to agree with everything that's in here but we all know there's a problem. If we can't be honest about that, how is anything ever going to change?”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“Betty Friedan’s book didn’t change my life. But it did send me in search of a better life, a life that truly fits, and gave me companions for the journey. For that, I am forever grateful. And forever changed.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“She was tired of stale conversations, the company of generic women who made her feel like she had to swallow her opinions and camouflage her personality.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“Margaret liked that her daughter knew her own mind and wasn’t afraid to speak it. It was an underappreciated quality in women, one that often faded with age.”
― 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, figures, and events, or even more meaningful. Novels force you to think—to make your own conclusions about characters and themes, and decide if they’re valid or relevant or true or good, or the opposite, or maybe somewhere in between. My personal preference is for in between. I don’t think I’ve ever met anybody who was all one thing or the other, have you? Most people are a walking bundle of contradictions.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“Do you know why money matters? Because it buys power. Power to influence outcomes and break people, power to bend the world to your will. And who has the money? The power? The control? “Men. Sure, every now and again, some clever girl manages to outlive her male relatives and get her hands on the inheritance, but the rest of us?” She shook her head. “We’ve got no choice but to dance to their tune, use our looks and wiles to convince those bastards to toss a few crumbs our direction.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“You know what Eleanor Roosevelt used to say: 'A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“From those to whom much has been given, much is expected.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“Acquaintances abound, but true friendships are rare and worth waiting for.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“After Pearl Harbor, Viv joined the service for the same reasons most people did—patriotism, a surge of righteous anger, a quiet but undeniable desire to see the world, and a fear of missing out.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“McCarthy’s novel The Group”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“She also needed privacy, that “room of one’s own” with space to be her own person and think her own thoughts, think bigger thoughts,”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“In Viv’s mind”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“Examining thoughts and ideas that can impact your life is the whole point of reading”
― 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

“1972, another ruling in the case of Eisenstadt v. Baird legalized birth control access for unmarried people. And it wasn’t until 1974 and the passage of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act that married women through the United States were guaranteed the right to open their own bank accounts.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“However, it wasn’t until the 1965 US Supreme Court’s ruling in Griswold v. Connecticut that married couples were guaranteed a right to contraception. In”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“Those who were, those who are, and those who will be in the years to come”—”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“Denise was still an odd duck, but those were generally the ducks worth knowing.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women