Shipwreck Quotes

“So many lessons of life are like this. Humans are such forgetful creatures. We do not simply learn such things and they stay learned.”
― G. Lawrence, Shipwreck

“It meant one side of our entire race knew not the other, for how could men know women they lived with, slept beside, said they loved if those women were wearing masks to protect themselves from those very men? Half people women were, so men too lived half lives of loneliness never knowing the true comfort of understanding another soul.”
― G. Lawrence, Shipwreck

“Strange are the lessons of life, that so often something teaches a lesson which opposes its own nature, that in weakness I should find strength, and in times of darkness, light.”
― G. Lawrence, Shipwreck

“Men so often are allowed to show emotion towards others only at certain times; brothers fallen on the battlefield may be embraced, women may be courted, yet the emotion most men are permitted to show in public is rage, anger. The rest of them they are taught to tie up inside, emotions bound inside their souls and hearts, as though feelings other than anger are balls of wool to roll up and place in a basket out of sight. How we limit women by making them perform roles of perfection, of virtue and meekness, chastity and sweetness, yet how we reduce men too; make them creatures only of anger and action, never contemplation and reflection. They have that inside them, just as women have much too, yet laws, the Church, habits of man and mortal try to make us but one thing, the thing accepted. Aberrations men call monsters, yet this is just lack of understanding. Were our minds wider, we might be more accepting, allowing people to grow into creations more glorious than that which they started life as.”
― G. Lawrence, Shipwreck