Quotes from Eva Figes

For centuries the word 'nature' has been used to bolster prejudices or to express, not reality, but a state of affairs that the user would wish to see.

Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist.

Nothing comes back. The eye sees for a moment, the ear hears, but look, now it is gone.

Speak to me, wood pigeon. I need your voice.

But I know that the body I inhabit will only take so much, can only go so far. Rocks, stones, even the leaning twisting trees, all are harder and more enduring. The stones have weight and mass, and agonised trees are rooted deep in the craggy soil.

Sadly, man recognises that the ideal, submissive woman he has created for himself is somehow not quite what he wanted.

grievance does not make for great art.

There is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done by.