On Equal Ground Quotes

“Women were strange creatures; it was best not to try to understand them.”
― Elizabeth Adams, On Equal Ground

“Since Robert’s death, you mean. You may say it, Jane. He will not be any more dead if you do.”
― Elizabeth Adams, On Equal Ground

“She couldn’t imagine what she would have been like without his influence—what her family would be like! Her mother would have put them all out at fifteen as she had planned, and in all likelihood, they would have been five single ladies out, for years on end, with no suitors among them. Mary would be pedantic, Jane withdrawn, and Lydia positively wild.”
― Elizabeth Adams, On Equal Ground

“It had always been Mr. Darcy’s misfortune that when he most wished to be understood, he gave nearly the opposite impression of the one he intended.”
― Elizabeth Adams, On Equal Ground

“said Miss Bingley in a voice that made Elizabeth want to poke her with a hat pin.”
― Elizabeth Adams, On Equal Ground

“Intelligent women do not appreciate being ordered about like children,” said the earl.”
― Elizabeth Adams, On Equal Ground