[Charlotte Bronte] had thought of every maneuver for circumventing those stony obstructions of wives who would not remove themselves.

They had created themselves together, and they always saw themselves, their youth, their love, their lost youth and lost love, their failures and memories, as a sort of living fiction.

the great is seldom a deterrent to the mediocre

There is nothing quite like this novel with its rage and ragings, its discontent and angry restlessness. Wuthering Heights is a virgin's story.

Character is greatness inside out.

Feminism is a transformational force, an individual and social force. It is a way of looking at the world-a questioning of power/domination issues, an affirmation of women's energy.

One realization does dawn upon the death of the second parent, namely that you've now moved into the green room to the River Styx. You're next.

When love is suppressed hate takes its place.

What was once dormant is now a Creeping Thing

I think it takes a long time, as you get older, to realize just how crazy the world is, just how ridiculous it all is.

If you look at Newcastle or Gateshead, even over twenty years, even with the previous administration, it has moved quite remarkably in transforming itself.

Reason and action are congeneric and homogenous, two aspects of the same phenomenon.

I think I've found out who I am and what we've been looking for. We don't have to search for my identity anymore. This is it-we're doing it!

Simon drives me crazy. We are still arguing.