Dorothy Richardson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Life is creation - self and circumstances, the raw material.
-- Dorothy Richardson

#Creativity #Self #Raw Materials
... men want recognition of their work, to help them believe in themselves.
-- Dorothy Richardson

#Believe #Men #Want
Suddenly a mist of green on the trees, as quiet as thought.
-- Dorothy Richardson

#Tree #Green #Quiet
Every thought vibrates through the universe.
-- Dorothy Richardson

#Vibrate #Universe
Men would always rather be made love to than talked at.
-- Dorothy Richardson

#Men #Made
No future life could heal the degradation of having been a woman. Religion in the world had nothing but insults for women.
-- Dorothy Richardson

#Women #Religion #Degradation
Life ought to be lived on a basis of silence, where truth blossoms.
-- Dorothy Richardson

#Silence #Bases #Ought
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.
-- Dorothy Richardson

#Garden #Shadow #Longing
Real speech can only come from complete silence. Incomplete silence is as fussy as deliberate conversation.
-- Dorothy Richardson

#Real #Silence #Speech
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.
-- Dorothy Richardson

#Dance #Wall #Moving
The better you hear a thing put, the more certain you are there's another view.
-- Dorothy Richardson

#Views #Certain
Clear thought makes clear speech.
-- Dorothy Richardson

#Thinking #Speech #Clear
A happy childhood is perhaps the most-fortunate gift in life.
-- Dorothy Richardson

#Childhood #Happy Childhood #Fortunate
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.
-- Dorothy Richardson

#Philosophy #Fighting #Men
Quotations are feeble; you always regret making them.
-- Dorothy Richardson

#Regret #Quotations
It's only in silence that you can judge of your relationship to a person.
-- Dorothy Richardson

#Judging #Silence #Our Relationship
The question was not how to get a job, but how to live by such jobs as I could get.
-- Dorothy Richardson

#Jobs #Work #Live By
Coercion. The unpardonable crime.
-- Dorothy Richardson

#Coercion #Action #Crime
People is themselves when they are children, and not again till they know they'm dying.
-- Dorothy Richardson

#Children #People #Dying
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.
-- Dorothy Richardson

#Witty #Women #Waiting
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.
-- Dorothy Richardson

#Christian #Country #Thinking
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.
-- Dorothy Richardson

#Party #Fall #People
Deep down in everyone was sorrow and certainty.
-- Dorothy Richardson

#Sorrow #Certainty #Deep Down
If there was a trick, there must be a trickster.
-- Dorothy Richardson

#Tricksters #Tricks #Ifs

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