Too Much Quotes

“After a tormented resistance, Tess Durbeyfield nakedly expresses her desire for Angel Clare (who, alas, is the unworthiest of feckless assholes).”
― Rachel Vorona Cote, Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today

“Two of Ramona’s most prickling fears are impossibly intertwined: first, that her affection for all those most important to her goes unrequited, and second, that she cannot be loved for precisely who she is—impetuous, temperamental, profoundly sensitive, and, yes, a little bit of a show-off.”
― Rachel Vorona Cote, Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today

“We cannot remedy the cruelest parts of being human: heartbreak and loss and the torments we endure as we excavate severe self-truths. But we can, I believe, build little harbors for one another.”
― Rachel Vorona Cote, Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today

“I am a composite of the women I have loved. I am built and reconstituted from my memories of them: words and embraces exchanged, the smell of their hair and the soap smoothed into their skin.”
― Rachel Vorona Cote, Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today