Book of Forbidden Words Quotes

“What sort of country separates a mother from her children?”
― Louise Fein, Book of Forbidden Words

“But isn’t freedom of speech something that is hallowed and upheld in this country?”
― Louise Fein, Book of Forbidden Words

“America is God’s chosen nation. Chosen for white men.”
― Louise Fein, Book of Forbidden Words

“What men are ever going to admit to women’s superiority? It suits them to have us believe in our own inferiority too.”
― Louise Fein, Book of Forbidden Words

“I found a text, Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex, written by a man, Henricus Cornelius Agrippa. He believes he has been ordained by God to argue for women’s superiority over men. He says it is men, not women, who introduced murder, bigamy, drunkenness, tyranny, idolatry, adultery, incest.”
― Louise Fein, Book of Forbidden Words

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
― Louise Fein, Book of Forbidden Words

“If voices of dissent are silenced”
― Louise Fein, Book of Forbidden Words

“I do worry about that,” Milly replies. “My hopes and my fears seem to extend in different directions.”
― Louise Fein, Book of Forbidden Words

“Beguines”
― Louise Fein, Book of Forbidden Words

“the Island of Nowhere”
― Louise Fein, Book of Forbidden Words

“Island of Utopia,” she said. “In Greek that means Island of Nowhere. What an odd name.”
― Louise Fein, Book of Forbidden Words

“Milly”
― Louise Fein, Book of Forbidden Words

“Libraries”
― Louise Fein, Book of Forbidden Words