Alice Borchardt: Quotes about women

Alice Borchardt was American fiction writer. Explore interesting quotes on women.
Alice Borchardt: 114   quotes 4   likes

“Women are weak, easily swayed by passion, driven by desire, lust. He lit a fire in her body, a fire that still burned, even in his absence”

Alice Borchardt

Devoted

Women , Passion

“Have I your word?” “yes, you have my word. But, you don’t believe me.” “no, men’s promises to women are easily made and even more easily broken.””

Alice Borchardt

Beguiled

Women , Men

“Know you, boy, women are like cats and must explore any new place until they are satisfied. If they don’t they become weak and vain, fretful and ill”

Alice Borchardt

Devoted

Women , Boy , Cats

“for when women take revenge, it is with all their hearts and souls, not to mention considerable inventiveness and ingenuity”

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

Women , Soul , Revenge , Heart

“Some of the captured women killed themselves. I didn’t. others yielded and learned to love their captors. I wouldn’t do either one. I knew I would escape. Death is forever; to learn to love the hand that crushes you is a shame not to be borne. Pain and slavery will pass. I believed this and it kept me alive”

Alice Borchardt

Devoted

Love , Death , Women , Pain

“Elin wondered, sitting in the sweat bath, what that had to do with passion or desire, and decided – nothing. It was justification. They had murdered the men and must prove, on the helpless bodies of the women, that they were truly stronger. Prove it to exhaustion… not even pleasure was in it for them”

Alice Borchardt

Devoted

Women , Men , Pleasure , Passion

“And then he remembered that the other function of sex is punishment – men use it to humiliate women. And since turnabout is fair play, women often use it to humiliate men”

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

Women , Men , Sex

“He smiled at her, and she felt uncomfortable as she always did when he showed her affection as opposed to lust. Lust she expected from a man but not affection. The men in her life, her brothers and father, had not been affectionate; and lust would have been inappropriate, though she saw them direct that at other women, usually women of low rank, ripe to be used and cast aside”

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

Life , Women , Men , Smile