Ryder quotes
6 quotes from Ryder by Djuna Barnes, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book.
About Djuna Barnes
Never let a man touch you, never show anything, keep your legs in your own life, and when you grow to be a woman, keep that a secret even from yourself.
It takes a strong woman to die before she has been a fool.
Beggar at the gates, to be queen at home.
For thy life is a going and a coming, and a coming and a going, that thy harvest knows better than thy people.
Bargain not in unknown figures.
Molly Dance believed, more or less, everything that was told her.
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