Dorothy Richardson Quotes

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

  Dorothy Richardson

  Creativity, Self, Raw Materials

  Dorothy Miller Richardson (1967). “Pilgrimage”

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

  Dorothy Richardson

  Thinking, Differences, Between You And Me

  Dorothy Miller Richardson (1967). “Pilgrimage”

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• Every thought vibrates through the universe.

  Dorothy Richardson

  Vibrate, Universe

  Dorothy Miller Richardson (1967). “Pilgrimage”

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

  Dorothy Richardson

  Silence, Bases, Ought

  Dorothy Miller Richardson (1967). “Pilgrimage”

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• Clear thought makes clear speech.

  Dorothy Richardson

  Thinking, Speech, Clear

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• Men would always rather be made love to than talked at.

  Dorothy Richardson

  Men, Made

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• 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

  Dorothy Miller Richardson (1925). “The Trap”

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• 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

  Dorothy Miller Richardson (1919). “The Tunnel”

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• A happy childhood is perhaps the most-fortunate gift in life.

  Dorothy Richardson

  Childhood, Happy Childhood, Fortunate

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

  Dorothy Richardson

  Real, Silence, Speech

  Dorothy Miller Richardson (1967). “Pilgrimage”

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• 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

  Dorothy Miller Richardson (1925). “The Trap”

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• The better you hear a thing put, the more certain you are there's another view.

  Dorothy Richardson

  Views, Certain

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

  Dorothy Richardson

  Judging, Silence, Our Relationship

  Dorothy Miller Richardson (1967). “Pilgrimage”

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• 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

  Dorothy Miller Richardson (1967). “Pilgrimage”

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• Coercion. The unpardonable crime.

  Dorothy Richardson

  Coercion, Action, Crime

  Dorothy Miller Richardson (1938). “Pilgrimage”

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• Quotations are feeble; you always regret making them.

  Dorothy Richardson

  Regret, Quotations

  Dorothy Miller Richardson (1967). “Pilgrimage”

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• 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

  Dorothy Richardson (1905). “The Long Day: The Story of a New York Working Girl”, p.45, University of Virginia Press

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• People is themselves when they are children, and not again till they know they'm dying.

  Dorothy Richardson

  Children, People, Dying

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

  Dorothy Richardson

  Tree, Green, Quiet

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• 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

  Dorothy Miller Richardson (1967). “Pilgrimage”

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• 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

  Dorothy Miller Richardson (1967). “Pilgrimage”

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• 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

  Dorothy Miller Richardson (1967). “Pilgrimage”

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• Deep down in everyone was sorrow and certainty.

  Dorothy Richardson

  Sorrow, Certainty, Deep Down

  Dorothy Miller Richardson (1919). “Honeycomb”

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

  Dorothy Richardson

  Believe, Men, Want

  Dorothy Miller Richardson (1931). “Dawn's Left Hand”

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• Marriage is not an institution, it is an intuition.

  Dorothy Richardson

  Intuition, Institutions

  Dorothy Miller Richardson (1967). “Pilgrimage”

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