{"author":"Dorothy L. Sayers","author_id":"Dorothy+L.+Sayers","total_quotes":112,"quotes":[{"text":"In reaction against the age-old slogan, 'woman is the weaker vessel,' or the still more offensive, 'woman is a divine creature,' we have, I think, allowed ourselves to drift into asserting that 'a woman is as good as a man,' without always pausing to think what exactly we mean by that. What, I feel, we ought to mean is something so obvious that it is apt to escape attention altogether, viz: (...) that a woman is just as much an ordinary human being as a man, with the same individual preferences, and with just as much right to the tastes and preferences of an individual. What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.","author":"Dorothy L. Sayers","tags":["classification","clichés","dignity","discrimination","double-standards","empowerment","feminism","gender","individuality","misogyny","self-determination","social-norms","stereotypes","women"],"id":2459,"author_id":"Dorothy+L.+Sayers"},{"text":"I looked for any footmarks of course, but naturally, with all this rain, there wasn't a sign. Of course, if this were a detective story, there'd have been a convenient shower exactly an hour before the crime and a beautiful set of marks which could only have come there between two and three in the morning, but this being real life in a London November, you might as well expect footprints in Niagara. I searched the roofs right along—and came to the jolly conclusion that any person in any blessed flat in the blessed row might have done it.","author":"Dorothy L. Sayers","tags":["mystery","novels","real-life"],"id":15253,"author_id":"Dorothy+L.+Sayers"},{"text":"Perhaps [the critics are right and] the drama is played out now and Jesus is safely dead and buried. Perhaps. It is ironical and entertaining to consider that at least once in the world’s history those words might have been said with complete conviction, and that was on the eve of the Resurrection.","author":"Dorothy L. Sayers","tags":["dorothy-l-sayers","dorothy-sayers","jesus","resurrection"],"id":20301,"author_id":"Dorothy+L.+Sayers"},{"text":"A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.","author":"Dorothy L. Sayers","tags":["independence","intelligence","irritability","marriage","matrimony","recklessness"],"id":21398,"author_id":"Dorothy+L.+Sayers"},{"text":"The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write the book that is there to be written., 8 September 1935).","author":"Dorothy L. Sayers","tags":["creative-process","expectations","honesty","integrity","on-writing","pandering","self-expression","selling-out","writing"],"id":31132,"author_id":"Dorothy+L.+Sayers"},{"text":"How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do'Except to teach me for the first time what they meant.","author":"Dorothy L. Sayers","tags":["lord-peter-wimsey","love","poetry"],"id":34370,"author_id":"Dorothy+L.+Sayers"},{"text":"Philip wasn't the sort of man to make a friend of a woman. He wanted devotion. I gave him that. I did, you know. But I couldn't stand being made a fool of. I couldn;t stand being put on probation, like an office-boy, to see if I was good enough to be condescended to. I quite thought he was honest when he said he didn't believe in marriage -- and then it turned out that it was a test, to see whether my devotion was abject enough. Well, it wasn't. I didn't like having matrimony offered as a bad-conduct prize.","author":"Dorothy L. Sayers","tags":["devotion","hypocrisy","matrimony"],"id":37125,"author_id":"Dorothy+L.+Sayers"},{"text":"Books... Are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.","author":"Dorothy L. Sayers","tags":["books","character-development","growth","reading"],"id":37966,"author_id":"Dorothy+L.+Sayers"},{"text":"For whatever reason God chose to make man as he is— limited and suffering and subject to sorrows and death—He had the honesty and the courage to take His own medicine. Whatever game He is playing with His creation, He has kept His own rules and played fair. He can exact nothing from man that He has not exacted from Himself. He has Himself gone through the whole of human experience, from the trivial irritations of family life and the cramping restrictions of hard work and lack of money to the worst horrors of pain and humiliation, defeat, despair and death. When He was a man, He played the man. He was born in poverty and died in disgrace and thought it well worthwhile.","author":"Dorothy L. Sayers","tags":["god","jesus","religion","suffering"],"id":38122,"author_id":"Dorothy+L.+Sayers"},{"text":"Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.","author":"Dorothy L. Sayers","tags":["poets"],"id":44314,"author_id":"Dorothy+L.+Sayers"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":112,"pages":12,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}