Portrait of an Unknown Woman Quotes

“The bigots are winning,” he said gloomily. “Both kinds of bigots…” The ambassador finished his sentence for him: “And the only losers are the learned.” They all shook their heads.”
― Vanora Bennett, Portrait of an Unknown Woman

“I felt, by turns, numb, hot with a monstrous embarrassment, and sick as though I'd eaten splinters of glass and was slowly shredding inside.”
― Vanora Bennett, Portrait of an Unknown Woman