Quotes by Elizabeth Cooper

“It is not only unkind, it is simply wicked. For how shall we ever be anything but tools and drudges if we don’t co-operate, if we don’t stand shoulder to shoulder? Oh my heart goes out to all women! I never see one without feeling I must do all in my power to get to know her, to help her, to show her what she must do, so that when her youth is gone there will still be something left, a so much nobler happiness, a so much truer joy.’ ‘Than what?’ I asked, puzzled. Charlotte was looking into my eyes as though she were reading my soul. She wasn’t, whatever she might have thought she was doing. ‘Than what she had before, of course,’ she said with some asperity. ‘But perhaps what she had before was just what she liked best.””

“The era of Terra’s history that had spawned sublight interstellar exploration and the generation ships had not been one of trust and peaceful cooperation between peoples. More one of desperate gambles and bloody-nailed survival.””

“We must stop competing with each other. We need to start cooperating and sharing the remaining resources of this planet in a fair way.”]””

“She smiled sweetly at everyone and always acted like a total cooperator”

“Home, to Longbourn, where her mother awaited Elizabeth with an expectation that she regard the potentially ridiculous Mr Collins as a suitor. Impossible, of course. I think I am in love with Mr Darcy.””

“In the next moment, and for the first time in many years, Elizabeth found herself wrapped tightly in her mother’s embrace. “Oh, my sweet Lizzy. My poor, sweet girl,” Mrs Bennet said, patting her back as if she were in the nursery again with a skinned knee.””

“Elizabeth, I swear to you, upon my honour as a gentleman. If you agree to be my wife, there will be no other females in my life, in my bed, whether you will join me there or not.””

“Elizabeth regarded Jane calmly, peering at their joined hands. Then, almost faster than the eye could follow, she snatched up Jane’s wrist and bit down with an expression of blissful enjoyment, as if she were a child with a sugary treat. Jane screamed and screamed and screamed.””

“My feminism begins not with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton showing out at Seneca Falls, but with Maria Stewart, a Black lady abolitionist, who was schooling audiences of men and women, Black and white, in Boston in the 1830s.””

“How insufficient are all my pretensions of teasing a woman worthy of being teased.” He bowed to Elizabeth. “By you, I am sufficiently humbled.””

“Darcy, you know that your entire family has considered you engaged, almost from the cradle.” “Engaged?” Elizabeth asked, looking up at him interestedly. “Only if my entire family has selectively flawed hearing,” he replied,””

“Was he handsome?” Elizabeth asked. “If so, take my word for it”