Author: Alice James

Quotes

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.

- Alice James

How sick one gets of being 'good', how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.

How sick one gets of being 'good', how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.

- Alice James

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

- Alice James

You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.

You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.

- Alice James

I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

- Alice James

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

- Alice James

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