I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men - at least they can cry.
"Jean Rhys", Order of the British Empire/CBE, born "Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams", was a mid-20th-century novelist from the Caribbean island of Dominica. Educated from the age of 16 in Great Britain, she is best known for her novel Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), written as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous novelists! More Jean Rhys on Wikipedia.I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any.
She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The only difficulty was that after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. Exactly like indigestion.
They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did.
We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much less fun if we were ... Some must cry so that others may be able to laugh the more heartily.
I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and one that is broken, sad as a woman who is growing old.
Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.
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