"A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men when they were by themselves. Was I, by any chance, a...












Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.
More Dorothy L. Sayers quotes
"In reaction against the age-old slogan, "woman is the weaker vessel," or the still more offensive, "woman is a divine creature," we have, I think, all...
"In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if t...
"What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Ha
"If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalle...
"Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to ...
"I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It...
"The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry her. ... The great man, on the other hand, cou...
"Philip wasn't the sort of man to make a friend of a woman. He wanted devotion. I gave him that. I did, you know. But I couldn't stand being made a foo...
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"[W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insisting with sobs and howls on the satisfaction of their...
"[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that the women's point of view is different, and frankly ...