Classic Quotes by Jean Rhys
1894-1979
Welsh-Dominican writer
I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men – at least they can cry.
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still. Like when they say, “As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall
be, world without end.”
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.
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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.
