Quotes About Exigence

Et puis s'accuser tous azimuts, on se met à l'abri de bien des exigences. (p.116)

Women share their sadness, thought Edith. Their joy they like to show off to one another. Victory, triumph over the odds, calls for an audience. And that air of bustle and exigence sometimes affected by the sexually loquacious - that is for the benefit of other women. No solidarity then.

The demand [exigence] for an identity and the injunction to break that identity, both feel, in the same way abusive.

One consolation however remained for them, to which the exigence of the moment gave more than usual propriety; it was that of running with all possible speed down the steep side of the hill which led immediately to their garden gate.