Margaret Way Quotes

#1. I have a natural tendency to go away when told to do so. Do you really want me to?

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#2. Being abandoned doesn't make for little angels.

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#3. Every man is a bachelor out of his wife's sight!

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#4. I know essentially you're some kind of enchantress. Maybe you're still serving your apprenticeship, but you're an enchantress all right. Probably I'd get used to you in time. Right now, it's only my demonic will that's keeping me playing it mighty cool.

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#5. He's probably divorced. Mental cruelty.

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#6. So gloriously confident, so new to life you could conquer the world.

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#7. Ingo was a fever, and so far she hadn't found the antidote.

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#8. Sleeping with a woman is easy. Loving her is an entirely different thing.

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#9. I know some women go in for excitement and danger. It must make them feel more alive. It's my professional judgment that you're a dangerous man.

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#10. Women were the very devil, at the mercy of their frail strength.

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#11. Men were notorious for their acts of disloyalty.

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#12. The battle of the sexes and you're winning hands down.

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#13. Men were like horses, she mused dreamily. All they needed was breaking in.

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#14. I don't love you, you know. I'm merely crazy about you.

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#15. Certain women because of their female power and seductiveness could bring destruction to a family.

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#16. The nicest men in the world were horribly cruel. They took no great pleasure from it, it was just part of being a male, with a perpetual deep gulf between the sexes.

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#17. The truly unsettling thing about being a woman was needing a man to realise one's full potential

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#18. You make me come alive- too alive. It's breathless, like a disaster. Ravishing, like crossing over into the desert and losing your bearings. Nothing's the same again.

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#19. Two brothers. Two different worlds. Different mothers, of course. Did that explain it? Women usually explained everything.

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#20. Woman, thy name is perversity!

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#21. Tall, elegant, vital, scornful. A man like that could rock a woman to her very core.

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#22. She was so shattered about what kind of man he was
brutal, tender, passionate. There was little doubt he had some mental disorder.

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#23. All human happiness revolves around love. Love is central to the bonds on which a family is built.

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#24. It may come as an extraordinary shock to you but you're the only woman who has ever succeeded in getting under my skin. It could be because you're a raving lunatic.

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#25. If you ever look sideways at another man or attempt to refuse me I shall beat you. Got it?

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#26. Sink through the floor. Sonia, too, strove to control

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#27. I have the solution to all my problems. I have money, position, the running of one of the country's legendary cattle stations. I can even get the girl I want. I can't buy her, of course. She's got money of her own. But I'm pretty sure if I talk to her dad, he'll give me the green light.

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#28. Women weren't to be trusted. Or forgiven. Men weren't to be trusted either. Not a woman alive would dispute that.

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#29. There are more good women in the world than there are men worthy of them!

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#30. Sometimes she couldn't tolerate a man's physical superiority. No wonder they were so damned macho.

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#31. Woman magic. A quality that could bring great joy or havoc or both in equal measure.

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#32. You have got a sharp tongue, haven't you honey? You'll have to watch it or you'll go to a lonely spinster's grave.

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#33. Men-what arrogance! That was the worst of them. Forget the sexual hold they had on you. They would never liberate women at all.

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#34. Keeping one's guests supplied with liquor is the first law of hospitality.

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#35. I said he kissed me. Really kissed me. It rocked me to my soul. It was brutal. It was brilliant. It was horrible. I thought I was going to die.

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#36. She was no intellectual, but men were scrupulous about avoiding intellectual women unless they had the sense to keep it well hidden.

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#37. It's quite commonplace for a young man to fall in love and equally commonplace for him to be rejected, but come what may, I'll always be fond of you.

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