"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."

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Source : Dorothy Miller Richardson (1967). “Pilgrimage”

Dorothy Richardson

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“I'm afraid of time... I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I'm afraid of the quick judgements or mistakes everybody makes. You can't fix them without time. I'm afraid of seeing snapshots, not movies.”
“I saw more clearly than ever, that the first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day was, to have my soul happy in the Lord. The first thing to be concerned about was not, how much I might serve the Lord, how I might glorify the Lord; but how I might get my soul into a happy state, and how my inner man may be nourished...I saw that the most important thing I had to do was to give myself to the reading of the Word of God and to meditation on it.”
“Nobody should expect more of you than you expect of yourself.”
“I'm not broke. Like everybody else, I owe money.”
“I am restless. I don't mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own in a remote village.”
“Writers are greatly respected. The intelligent public is wonderfully patient with them, continues to read them, and endures disappointment after disappointment, waiting to hear from art what it does not hear from theology, philosophy, social theory, and what it cannot hear from pure science. Out of the struggle at the center has come an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.”
“I don't really care if people get upset. I think I'm doing my job if people get upset; I want them to think! We all want them to think, hopefully.”
“'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.”

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