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"Mrs Bridge" Quotes
A quiet and introspective portrait of an upper-middle-class woman navigating the constraints and expectations of her era.
Quotes
She had a great longing to be told that she was loved.
She knew that people often change their minds, but she could not remember ever having done so.
She was a conventional woman with a literal mind, who had no understanding of abstraction or of the imagination.
She thought that if she had had to do it all over again she would not have married him.
She did not understand that the only remedy for love is to love more.
She had noticed that love was always better in books.
She thought about him all day long and it made her feel both a little guilty and a little excited.
She did not believe that the future would be better than the present.
She had a feeling of detachment, as if she were living in a novel.
She was a little afraid of men, though she would have denied it.
