Imperfect Women Quotes

“Perhaps everyone had been wrong; perhaps anger didn’t ruin a woman, perhaps it made her stronger.”
― Araminta Hall, Imperfect Women

“And what was perhaps more frightening than the fact that we never know others is the fact that we never know ourselves.”
― Araminta Hall, Imperfect Women

“Maybe death is simply an act of equality.” “What do you mean?” “That nobody’s special when it comes to death, so it’s sort of like a leveling process.”
― Araminta Hall, Imperfect Women

“When my children were little and told me I was mean because I shouted at them about their manners, or told them they couldn’t eat sweets for breakfast, or all the other things that make mothers cross, I used to tell them that it takes so much more effort to be stern than it does just to say yes—that if I wanted an easy life, I would let them do all they asked. But I also told them I loved them too much to always say yes, that I took the time to scold them and argue with them so they would learn what was right or wrong. Anger is often not cruelty, Eleanor, it is more often love.”
― Araminta Hall, Imperfect Women

“simply wanted to know her—as in what was in her head, not what she represented.”
― Araminta Hall, Imperfect Women

“We’ve become confused about where to place the emphasis when it comes to death. A lot of death has no meaning. Sometimes planes just drop out of skies, or a friend gets hit over the head by a mugger, or parents trip and fall down the stairs. We live in a world now where there has to be an answer to everything. We wonder about something and Google tells us the answer, but death isn’t always like that.”
― Araminta Hall, Imperfect Women

“It’s funny,” she said, “but lots of the countries I’ve worked in, which we consider third world, value domesticity very highly. Unmarried young women are usually at the bottom of the social scale, but mothers are almost worshipped.”
― Araminta Hall, Imperfect Women