Best 22 quotes of Dorothy Richardson on MyQuotes

Deep down in everyone was sorrow and certainty.

Clear thought makes clear speech.

Coercion. The unpardonable crime.

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.

Every thought vibrates through the universe.

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's only in silence that you can judge of your relationship to a person.

It will all go on as long as women are stupid enough to go on bringing men into the world. . .

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

Life ought to be lived on a basis of silence, where truth blossoms.

... men want recognition of their work, to help them believe in themselves.

Night is torment. That is why people go to sleep. To avoid clear sight and torment.

No future life could heal the degradation of having been a woman. Religion in the world had nothing but insults for women.

Quotations are feeble; you always regret making them.

Real speech can only come from complete silence. Incomplete silence is as fussy as deliberate conversation.

Suddenly a mist of green on the trees, as quiet as thought.

the Church will go on being a Royal Academy of Males.

The difference between you and me is that you think to live and I live to think.

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.

The question was not how to get a job, but how to live by such jobs as I could get.

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.

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.