The Ambassador's Wife Quotes

“He needed a woman with whom he could share thoughts about his work. Someone with ideas of her own, a drive of her own, someone who could introduce him to other worlds. Without this two-way exchange, where was the partnership? What was there to engage him? He didn’t need anyone to follow him; he wanted someone to take turns leading. Finn was doomed to be drawn to intelligent, ambitious women whose passions took them away from him.”
― Jennifer Steil, The Ambassador's Wife

“It didn’t occur to them that they could change things. She had forgotten the learned passivity of a people accustomed to their powerlessness. She had forgotten their religious fatalism.”
― Jennifer Steil, The Ambassador's Wife

“That was when the movies started up again in her mind and she didn’t know how to stop them.”
― Jennifer Steil, The Ambassador's Wife

“These are British policemen; there is no danger of shocking them with the sight of female skin.”
― Jennifer Steil, The Ambassador's Wife