Ladies of the House Quotes

“this is our story and if they don’t like it, they can go read another one.”
― Lauren Edmondson, Ladies of the House

“We have to live on our own terms, not disappearing into someone else’s expectations for us.”
― Lauren Edmondson, Ladies of the House: A Modern Retelling of Sense and Sensibility

“Nothing forces us to know what we don’t want to know,’” quoted Bo, “‘except pain.”
― Lauren Edmondson, Ladies of the House

“For now, though, we will not worry about what will become of us. We will ask instead: What will the world become because of us?”
― Lauren Edmondson, Ladies of the House: A Modern Retelling of Sense and Sensibility

“An original inscription,” I continued, “reads, ‘Woman first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declaring herself an entity to be reckoned.”
― Lauren Edmondson, Ladies of the House: A Modern Retelling of Sense and Sensibility

“I was aware I was still a spectacle, but the trauma I might have felt months ago never surfaced. Whatever they thought about me, finally, was not the same as what I thought about myself.”
― Lauren Edmondson, Ladies of the House: A Modern Retelling of Sense and Sensibility

“How unfair it was that women have to make the choice to be nice or to be powerful.

“Don’t let what other people say, good or bad, pressure you into feeling small. The world does that enough to women. I won’t let it happen to my own sister.”
― Lauren Edmondson, Ladies of the House: A Modern Retelling of Sense and Sensibility

“...people can be infected by optimism.”
― Lauren Edmondson, Ladies of the House: A Modern Retelling of Sense and Sensibility

“Because nothing good in this world was made so by a woman keeping her mouth shut.”
― Lauren Edmondson, Ladies of the House: A Modern Retelling of Sense and Sensibility

“In the old romantic comedies, those of our childhoods, there was always the running scene, was there not? Through the crowd. Dashing, not a moment to spare. To the choice that should’ve been clear as day. To destiny. When you know how the rest of your life should be lived, you want to start the rest of your life as soon as possible.

My destination, though—not a man, but my true and best self.”
― Lauren Edmondson, Ladies of the House: A Modern Retelling of Sense and Sensibility

“We’re going to live the way we want, and try to do some good in the process. And that will be too much for some people and too little for others. But, you know, this is our story and if they don’t like it, they can go read another one.”
― Lauren Edmondson, Ladies of the House: A Modern Retelling of Sense and Sensibility

“Whatever they thought about me, finally, was not the same as what I thought about myself.”
― Lauren Edmondson, Ladies of the House: A Modern Retelling of Sense and Sensibility

“People aren't corrupted by power, Daisy. Power just amplifies who the already are.”
― Lauren Edmondson, Ladies of the House: A Modern Retelling of Sense and Sensibility

“This had been his biggest flaw: he'd clung so tightly to the displays he presumed would make him relevant and needed, and powerful, he forgot about where power truly lay. With us, his family, his wife and daughters, and the happiness and peace we'd found with each other and ourselves.”
― Lauren Edmondson, Ladies of the House: A Modern Retelling of Sense and Sensibility