One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. Alice James Read Quote
Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity. Alice James Read Quote
I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more. Alice James Read Quote
You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied. Alice James Read Quote
What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading. Alice James Read Quote
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am. Alice James Read Quote
The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can’t tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in? Alice James Read Quote
I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. Alice James Read Quote
How sick one gets of being ‘good’, how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness. Alice James Read Quote
Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul. Alice James Read Quote
