Night is torment. That is why people go to sleep. To avoid clear sight and torment.
Dorothy Richardsonuntil 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 RichardsonYou 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 RichardsonDancing 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 RichardsonIn 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 RichardsonThe question was not how to get a job, but how to live by such jobs as I could get.
Dorothy RichardsonPeople is themselves when they are children, and not again till they know they'm dying.
Dorothy RichardsonIt will all go on as long as women are stupid enough to go on bringing men into the world. . .
Dorothy RichardsonThe 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 RichardsonWomen 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 RichardsonReal speech can only come from complete silence. Incomplete silence is as fussy as deliberate conversation.
Dorothy Richardson