Radio Girls Quotes

“Maisie had never owned a book and couldn’t imagine rereading anything when time was so short and the libraries so full.”
― Sarah-Jane Stratford, Radio Girls

“No wonder the wireless is becoming so popular. It's capturing imaginations and holding them ransom.”
― Sarah-Jane Stratford, Radio Girls

“Once all the needed things were in place, and a new home settled, a woman who earned her own money could give herself a small something, just because.”
― Sarah-Jane Stratford, Radio Girls

“More than two million households had found ten shillings for the BBC license fee to bring radio into their homes,”
― Sarah-Jane Stratford, Radio Girls

“Maisie was next, and stepped up to vote. She wondered how many hands had trembled already today, holding their pencils over the ballots, with all the little boxes. Did most women take to their new, belated right with aplomb, or did they take their time, marveling over the beauty of it all, the silent speech that would be heard?
Or did they think, like she did, that there was a long queue behind her and she had to get to work.
She wrote a thick X, drew over it twice, and dropped the paper in the ballot box.
That’s how you spell a shout. With an X.”
― Sarah-Jane Stratford, Radio Girls

“I hear of boys thinking that a coal miner should be treated with the same respect as a landowner! And my own younger sister hopes to go to university and study medicine! She doesn't even wish to get married! These are the spoils of the so-called progressive mind.

I love being spoiled [thought Maisie]

We must defend our small island against those who would attempt to call it home, while having no right to it. We are the true Britons!”
― Sarah-Jane Stratford, Radio Girls

“It looks like they want to silence women and unions everywhere. And what's it for but money?

People are awfully funny. Always thinking lots of money makes them special, and thus superior, and so they ought to exercise the superiority.

It's a wonder they don't try to revoke the Magna Carta.”
― Sarah-Jane Stratford, Radio Girls

“She ate a cake. The jolt of joy that burst through her had nothing - she was pretty sure - to do with the excess of butter.”
― Sarah-Jane Stratford, Radio Girls

“Pound notes. Her previous pay packets had been so small she never received paper, only coins. Which she liked. Coins had heft and history. Their value was irrefutable. She liked the way they jingled in her purse. That was the song of solvency. The cheerful assurance that there would be food and comfort through the day. It was better than any hymn.”
― Sarah-Jane Stratford, Radio Girls

“Give that woman an inch and she takes the entire British Isles.”
― Sarah-Jane Stratford, Radio Girls

“With so few clothes to choose from, getting dressed was no quarrelsome effort. It was almost an argument for not acquiring more blouses and skirts, jumpers and jackets, else how much time would be lost in dividing and conquering them?”
― Sarah-Jane Stratford, Radio Girls

“She perched on the club chair he indicated. The leather was probably repelled by her cheap wool dress.”
― Sarah-Jane Stratford, Radio Girls

“Her heart was behaving in a most peculiar fashion, as though it were holding its breath, wondering if it should crumple completely or take a leap of hope.”
― Sarah-Jane Stratford, Radio Girls