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25 Cards in this Set
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"Romantic love has been diluted into paperback form and has sold thousands and millions of copies" |
ORANGES ARE NOT THE ONLY FRUIT, Jeanette Winterson,1985 |
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"Excellent wretch! perdition catch my soul/ But I do love thee! and when I love thee not / Chaos is come again." |
OTHELLO, William Shakespeare, 1604 |
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"As he held her and tasted her, and as she curved in further and further toward him, with her own lips, new to herself, drowned and engulfed in love, yet solaced and triumphant, he was thankful to have an existence at all, if only as a reflection in her wet eyes." |
TENDER IS THE NIGHT, F.Scott Fitzgerald, 1934 |
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“…men were for that, beam and idea, girder and logarithm; but somehow Dick and Nicole had become one and equal, not apposite and complementary; she was Dick too, the drought in the marrow of his bones.” |
TENDER IS THE NIGHT, F.Scott Fitzgerald,1934 |
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"I would cross seas and suffer sunstroke and give away all I have, but not for a man, because they want to be the destroyer and never be destroyed." |
ORANGES ARE NOT THE ONLY FRUIT, Jeanette Winterson,1985 |
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"... an old black ram is tupping your white ewe" |
OTHELLO, William Shakespeare, 1604 |
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"would dream of allowing our only daughter... ...to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel." |
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, Oscar Wilde,1895 |
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"...that I loved the wrong sort of people. Right sort of people in every respect except this one; romantic love for another woman was a sin." |
ORANGES ARE NOT THE ONLY FRUIT, Jeanette Winterson, 1985 |
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"Such leaps across boundaries were the stuff of daily romance." |
ATONEMENT, Ian McEwan,2007 |
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"My noble father/ I do perceive here a divided duty./ To you I am bound for life and education" |
OTHELLO, William Shakespeare, 1604 |
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"Even being lied to constantly, though hardly like love, was sustained attention; he must care about her to fabricate so elaborately and over such a long stretch of time. His deceit was a form of tribute to the importance of their marriage." |
ATONEMENT, Ian McEwan, 2007 |
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"Oddly, your hands should be full with all that taking but when you open them there's nothing there. " |
WRITTEN ON YOUR BODY, Jeanette Winterson, 1993 |
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"in a marital bed, the tarnished spoon of your bodystirring betrayal, your heart over-ripe at the core." |
ADULTERY, Carol Anne Duffy, 2006 |
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“Love is merely a madness and, I tell you, deserves as wella dark house and a whip as madmen do” |
AS YOU LIKE IT, Shakespeare, 1599 |
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"...how painful and humiliating it would be for Torvald, with his manly independence, to know that he owed me aneything!” |
A DOLL'S HOUSE, Henry Ibsen, 1879 |
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"Is it my little squirrel bustling about?" |
A DOLL'S HOUSE, Henry Ibsen, 1879 |
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NORA: "But don't you think it is nice of me, too, to do as you wish?"HELMER: "Nice?—because you do as your husband wishes? Well, well, you little rogue, I am sure you did not mean it in that way." |
A DOLL'S HOUSE, Henry Ibsen, 1879 |
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NORA: "Christine is […] is frightfully anxious to work under some clever man, so as to perfect herself—" |
A DOLL'S HOUSE, Henry Ibsen, 1879 |
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Sometimes I think there are a great many women behind, and sometimes only one, and she crawls around fast, and her crawling shakes it all over. […]And she is all the time trying to climb through. But nobody could climb through that pattern--it strangles so; |
THE YELLOW WALLPAPER, Charlotte Gilman, 1892 |
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since the earth was created, the right man has never yet met the right woman. The mathematical chances are all against such a meeting, and this is the reason that divorce courts exist. Marriage at best is but a compromise, |
AN ALPINE DIVORCE, Robert Barr |
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"Were women more rationally educated, could they take a more comprehensive view of things, they would be contented to love but once in their lives; and after marriage calmly let passion subside into friendship - into that tender intimacy" |
A VINDIFICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1792 |
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"Once, at its start, romance served an elegant purpose, it produced the first gentleness and reciprocity between the sexes/Now it is past its peak and well on the way to decrepitude and romantic flourishes can be seen to have a devious purpose." |
IN THE NAME OF LOVE, Jill Tweedie |
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"Like the fine pomanders carried by seventeenth-century ladies to cover the effluvia of unwashed bodies and rotting teeth, it conveiniently conceals the gengrenous patches in the relatiopnships between the sexes, the reality of male oppression and female manipulation." |
IN THE NAME OF LOVE, Jill Tweedie |
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"You sink your voice, but i can distinguish the tones of that voice when they would be lost on others. Too good, too excellent creature! You do us justice indeed!" |
PERSUASION, Jane Austin, 1818 |
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I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than women, that his love has an earlier death. |
PERSUASION, Jane Austin, 1818 |
