Quotes About Bluestocking

#1. It's no fun to be a bluestocking in a family of jockstraps.

Colleen McCullough

#2. Miss Gregory took nearly everything. Her clothes. New girls don't have the privilege of wearing their own clothes. Her books. Socrates, Plato, Shakespeare? Much too stimulating. No wonder you have Ideas. Certainly, you don't wish to become a bluestocking!

Suzanne Lazear

#3. Bluestocking, Nancy. Married life has quite changed something

Kate Atkinson

#4. I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it's rather odd to read Tweets commenting on my appearance.

Kate Williams

#5. What is this bluestocking?"
"A woman who fancies herself a member of the intelligentsia." He lowered his voice. "It's against the laws of nature."
Alexsey lifted his brows. "Why are you whispering? Afraid of bluestockings, are you?"
"All smart men are.

Karen Hawkins

#6. Whether deliberately, unconsciously or accidentally, she seems to have composed her own life so that its fitful, rudderless, and self-doubting first half was alchemized into gold when the austere bluestocking became the fallen woman.

Carolyn Heilbrun

#7. I thought all was lost. But I should have known better. My sweet, brave, bluestocking. You are made of sterner stuff than that. And I should have trusted you to save yourself.

Manda Collins

#8. If all of us would require the same level of performance from ourselves as we expect from government, this city will forever be the city that works.

Jane Byrne

#9. How many times can a heart be shattered and still be pieced back together? How many times before the damage is irreparable?

Gwenn Wright

#10. But whether I touch him or I run, whether I'm dreaming or I'm awake, on his birthday or on all other days, my whole life has been contaminated with the fact that he is dead.

Jean Hegland

#11. My heart, for unknown reasons, seems to freeze in motion in my chest. I can see he senses it and he holds his pause to enjoy my suffering, prolonging my ignorance. Viktor, what?

Gwenn Wright

#12. Who can be more loathsome to me than myself? Truly nobody; in comparison to me all are righteous. I

John Of Kronstadt

#13. The right to live does not connote the right of each man to reproduce his kind ... As we lessen the stringency of natural selection, and more and more of the weaklings and the unfit survive, we must increase the standard, mental and physical, of parentage.

Karl Pearson

#14. We have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either.' There are no U-Hauls behind hearses.

John Piper

#15. And with every step he took away from her, he felt like he was leaving the best pieces of him further and further behind.

Maisey Yates

#16. What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the ambitions, the fear, and the enraptured and terrified folly of mankind?

Friedrich Nietzsche