Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man. – Anita Brookner
Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything. – Anita Brookner
A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar. – Anita Brookner
Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy. – Anita Brookner
Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the fathers curse, mothers moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks. – Emma Goldman