Ladies Almanack quotes
6 quotes from Ladies Almanack by Djuna Barnes, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book.
About Djuna Barnes
Lady Buck-and-Balk sported a Monocle and believed in Spirits. Tilly-Tweed-In-Blood sported a Stetson, and believed in Marriage.
Patience Scalpel was of this Month, and belongs to this Almanack for one Reason only, that from Beginning to End, Top to Bottom, inside and out, she could not understand Women and their Ways as they were about her, above her and before her.
Love in Man is Fear of Fear. Love in Woman is Hope without Hope.
Women are a little this side of Contemplation, their Love has the Poignancy of all lost Tension.
Never want but what you have, never have but that which stays, and let nothing remain.
I am my Revenge!
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