Mrs Dalloway and Sense and Sensibility Quotes

Clarissa’s emotions as she ages

“She felt more deeply, more passionately, every year”

Clarissa on her end

“It was all over for her”

Clarissa on her feeling of sexless feeling

“Narrower and narrower her bed would be”

Sally and Clarissa on marriage when they were younger

“(They spoke of marriage always as a catastrophe)”

Women as a prize or possession in Dalloway

“He deserved her”

On Hugh’s privilege as a man

“Nobody believed a word against Hugh, of course”

Shared feminity in Dalloway

“The shelter of common feminity”

Dalloway on motherhood

“The softness of motherhood”

Clarissa on her loneliness

“He has left me; I am alone forever”

Marianne and Mrs Dashwood’s emotions

“Violence of their afflictions”

Marianne’s extreme emotions

“Almost screamed with agony”

Elinor’s emotions

“Her feelings were strong; but she knew how to govern them”

Elinor on Edward’s love

“I am by no means assured of his regard for me”

Lucy being bitchy to Marianne

“Eager to take some revenge on her”

Gender roles in Dalloway

“Sir John was a sportsman, Lady Middleton a mother”

S+S on women as possessions

“He had secured his lady”

S+S on the importance of marriage for women

“Far better for her to marry you than be single”