Quotes from Dorothy Richardson

It's only in silence that you can judge of your relationship to a person.

A happy childhood is perhaps the most-fortunate gift in life.

Life ought to be lived on a basis of silence, where truth blossoms.

Death must be got through as life had been, just somehow.

Suddenly a mist of green on the trees, as quiet as thought.

Marriage is not an institution, it is an intuition.

Men would always rather be made love to than talked at.

Women who are not living ought to spend all their time cracking jokes. In a rotten society women grow witty; making a heaven while they wait.

It will all go on as long as women are stupid enough to go on bringing men into the world. . .

You think Christianity is favorable to women? On the contrary. It is the Christian countries that have produced the prostitute and the most vile estimations of women in the world.

No future life could heal the degradation of having been a woman. Religion in the world had nothing but insults for women.

The question was not how to get a job, but how to live by such jobs as I could get.

... men want recognition of their work, to help them believe in themselves.