The Eights Quotes

“but these women! It is no surprise that the noun friend is derived from an ancient root word meaning to love, that it is etymologically bound to the word free. These marvelous women give her the confidence that what she is doing is right.”
― Joanna Miller, The Eights

“The thing about Oxford is, you spend all this time fretting that you don’t belong, but when you are apart from it, you feel as if you’ve left something precious behind,” says Dora.”
― Joanna Miller, The Eights

“We don’t all go to Oxford to become Marie Curie. Most of us are ordinary people grasping the opportunity of an extraordinary education—and that goes for the men too.”
― Joanna Miller, The Eights

“What Marianne really wants to say is that misogyny is like the mice under the floorboards at the rectory, scuttling about unseen but never far away.”
― Joanna Miller, The Eights

“I put it to you that a country is only truly democratic if opportunity is not withheld from all its citizens at the highest level.”
― Joanna Miller, The Eights

“Give her numbers any day. Words are flimsy things, easily manipulated, open to interpretation.”
― Joanna Miller, The Eights

“They are all blighted. But she can’t afford to think that way, or she would go mad.”
― Joanna Miller, The Eights

“Bertrand Russell puts it quite well,” says Otto. “He says it’s a shame that gossips are obsessed with people’s hidden vices when what they ought to be looking out for are their hidden virtues.”
― Joanna Miller, The Eights

“viva voces,”
― Joanna Miller, The Eights

“with what her mother describes as Beatrice’s infernal and wearying interest in everything.”
― Joanna Miller, The Eights

“Beatrice is taking a new course known as PPE, Otto is one of a handful of women to read Mathematics, and Marianne and Dora will study English.”
― Joanna Miller, The Eights

“crocodile will depart early today.”
― Joanna Miller, The Eights

“Miss Ottoline Wallace-Kerr Mathematics”
― Joanna Miller, The Eights

“Miss Beatrice Sparks PPE”
― Joanna Miller, The Eights

“Miss Elizabeth Fullerton-Summers Modern History Miss Theodora Greenwood English Miss Marianne Grey English”
― Joanna Miller, The Eights

“we cannot change what has happened, we can change how we react to it.”
― Joanna Miller, The Eights

“I often ask myself," she begins, "if women had always been taught to paint, sculpt, publish, report, write, calculate, translate, and experiment, what kind of world would we live in now?”
― Joanna Miller, The Eights