Top 30 Quotes & Sayings by Dorothy Richardson

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British novelist Dorothy Richardson.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Dorothy Richardson

Dorothy Miller Richardson was a British author and journalist. Author of Pilgrimage, a sequence of 13 semi-autobiographical novels published between 1915 and 1967—though Richardson saw them as chapters of one work—she was one of the earliest modernist novelists to use stream of consciousness as a narrative technique. Richardson also emphasises in Pilgrimage the importance and distinct nature of female experiences. The title Pilgrimage alludes not only to "the journey of the artist ... to self-realisation but, more practically, to the discovery of a unique creative form and expression".

Deep down in everyone was sorrow and certainty.
In the midst of the happiness they brought there was always a lurking shadow. The shadow of incompatibility; of the impossibility of being at once bound and free. The garden breeds a longing for the wild; the wild a homesickness for the garden.
It will all go on as long as women are stupid enough to go on bringing men into the world. . . — © Dorothy Richardson
It will all go on as long as women are stupid enough to go on bringing men into the world. . .
The difference between you and me is that you think to live and I live to think.
If there was a trick, there must be a trickster.
the Church will go on being a Royal Academy of Males.
Death must be got through as life had been, just somehow.
The question was not how to get a job, but how to live by such jobs as I could get.
Suddenly a mist of green on the trees, as quiet as thought.
No future life could heal the degradation of having been a woman. Religion in the world had nothing but insults for women.
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.
The better you hear a thing put, the more certain you are there's another view.
Marriage is not an institution, it is an intuition.
Coercion. The unpardonable crime.
Men would always rather be made love to than talked at.
Clear thought makes clear speech.
Every thought vibrates through the universe.
Quotations are feeble; you always regret making them.
A happy childhood is perhaps the most-fortunate gift in life.
until it had been clearly explained that men were always and always partly wrong in all their ideas, life would be full of poison and secret bitterness. Men fight about their philosophies and religions, there is no certainty in them; but their contempt for women is flawless and unanimous.
Real speech can only come from complete silence. Incomplete silence is as fussy as deliberate conversation.
The joy of a party is the newness of people to each other, renewed strikingness of humanity. They love each other, to distraction. Really to distraction. Before they fall into conversation and separate. ... The strangeness, and the hopes aroused by strangeness, are illusions. Mirages arising wherever people gather expectantly together.
Dancing brings an endlessness in which nothing matters but to go on dancing - in a room, till the walls disappear - in the open, till the sky, moving as you dance, seems to cleave and let you through.
... men want recognition of their work, to help them believe in themselves. — © Dorothy Richardson
... men want recognition of their work, to help them believe in themselves.
Life ought to be lived on a basis of silence, where truth blossoms.
Life is creation - self and circumstances, the raw material.
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.
It's only in silence that you can judge of your relationship to a person.
Night is torment. That is why people go to sleep. To avoid clear sight and torment.
People is themselves when they are children, and not again till they know they'm dying.
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