A Dangerous Business Quotes

“but, between you and me, being a woman is a dangerous business, and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Oh, those men”
― Jane Smiley, A Dangerous Business

“What would happen there she had no idea, but if Monterey had taught her anything, it was to make the best of things. Every ship that sailed into the bay had to do what the winds demanded, whatever the captain’s plans might be.”
― Jane Smiley, A Dangerous Business

“Jean shrugged and said, “My dear, if you don’t have crazy relatives in this world, you are one of a kind.”
― Jane Smiley, A Dangerous Business

“But now I feel that there was some aspect of fatedness about it. If I was going to do what, perhaps, I am meant to do, what I must do, there were things I had to learn.”
― Jane Smiley, A Dangerous Business

“Yes, working for Mrs. Parks had given her liberties that were rare here, rare in Kalamazoo, and, she suspected, rare everywhere.”
― Jane Smiley, A Dangerous Business

“That was another way in which Monterey was agreeable—no one pried, no one asked unpleasant questions. Perhaps the reason for that was that there were few churches, and most of those Catholic.”
― Jane Smiley, A Dangerous Business

“if Monterey had taught her anything, it was to make the best of things. Every ship that sailed into the bay had to do what the winds demanded, whatever the captain’s plans might be.”
― Jane Smiley, A Dangerous Business

“Perhaps this had always been true, too—dread faded away as she proceeded, step by step, toward the very thing she dreaded.”
― Jane Smiley, A Dangerous Business