Quotes from Margaret Way

Being abandoned doesn't make for little angels.

Keeping one's guests supplied with liquor is the first law of hospitality.

Sleeping with a woman is easy. Loving her is an entirely different thing.

Sometimes she couldn't tolerate a man's physical superiority. No wonder they were so damned macho.

He's probably divorced. Mental cruelty.

The truly unsettling thing about being a woman was needing a man to realise one's full potential

Les riches, pas davantage que les pauvres, ne pouvaient se soustraire à la mort, même si leurs funérailles attiraient généralement plus de monde.

All human happiness revolves around love. Love is central to the bonds on which a family is built.

sink through the floor. Sonia, too, strove to control

Men were like horses, she mused dreamily. All they needed was breaking in.

I have the solution to all my problems. I have money, position, the running of one of the country's legendary cattle stations. I can even get the girl I want. I can't buy her, of course. She's got money of her own. But I'm pretty sure if I talk to her dad, he'll give me the green light.

I said he kissed me. Really kissed me. It rocked me to my soul. It was brutal. It was brilliant. It was horrible. I thought I was going to die.

I have a natural tendency to go away when told to do so. Do you really want me to?

It's quite commonplace for a young man to fall in love and equally commonplace for him to be rejected, but come what may, I'll always be fond of you.

Woman magic. A quality that could bring great joy or havoc or both in equal measure.

I don't love you, you know. I'm merely crazy about you.

It may come as an extraordinary shock to you but you're the only woman who has ever succeeded in getting under my skin. It could be because you're a raving lunatic.

You're the hero my young romantic heart settled on so long ago, you're an absolute tiger at times, you're devious and not above playing a few tricks. I love you whatever you are all the time. I've loved you for ten years without stopping. I'll love you for as long as I have breath in my body. I'm committed to one man and I'm ready to face real life with him.

Certain women because of their female power and seductiveness could bring destruction to a family.

Being abandoned doesn't make for little angels.

She was no intellectual, but men were scrupulous about avoiding intellectual women unless they had the sense to keep it well hidden.

Every man is a bachelor out of his wife's sight!

The nicest men in the world were horribly cruel. They took no great pleasure from it, it was just part of being a male, with a perpetual deep gulf between the sexes.

Keeping one's guests supplied with liquor is the first law of hospitality.