[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 own, I simply can't find it heroic, or kind, or anything but pretty rotten and feeble.
Dorothy L. SayersBirth is beastly - and death - and digestion, if it comes to that. Sometimes when I think of what's happening inside me to a beautiful suprรจme de sole, with the caviare in boats, and the croรปtons and the jolly little twists of potato and all the gadgets - I could cry. But there it is, don't you know.
Dorothy L. SayersThe making of miracles to edification was as ardently admired by pious Victorians as it was sternly discouraged by Jesus of Nazareth. Not that the Victorians were unique in this respect. Modern writers also indulge in edifying miracles though they generally prefer to use them to procure unhappy endings, by which piece of thaumaturgy they win the title of realists.
Dorothy L. SayersTo make a precise scientific description of reality out of words is like trying to build a rigid structure out of pure quicksilver.
Dorothy L. Sayers