Dorothy Richardson
Dorothy Richardson
Dorothy Miller Richardsonwas a British author and journalist. Author of Pilgrimage, a sequence of 13 novels, she was one of the earliest modernist novelists to use stream of consciousness as a narrative technique. Richardson also emphasizes in Pilgrimage the importance and distinct nature of female experiences...
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tricksters tricks ifs
If there was a trick, there must be a trickster.
believe help men themselves
Men want recognition of their work, to help them to believe in themselves
jobs work live-by
The question was not how to get a job, but how to live by such jobs as I could get.
sorrow certainty deep-down
Deep down in everyone was sorrow and certainty.
stupid men long
It will all go on as long as women are stupid enough to go on bringing men into the world. . .
regret quotations
Quotations are feeble; you always regret making them.
party fall people
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.
philosophy fighting men
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.
men made
Men would always rather be made love to than talked at.
intuition institutions
Marriage is not an institution, it is an intuition.
children people dying
People is themselves when they are children, and not again till they know they'm dying.
death
Death must be got through as life had been, just somehow.
childhood happy-childhood fortunate
A happy childhood is perhaps the most-fortunate gift in life.
tree green quiet
Suddenly a mist of green on the trees, as quiet as thought.