Barbara Wright Quotes

#1. She was opinionated without being pushy. When choosing a book to read aloud, she would try to interest him in those spunky English heroines she liked so much. He proposed Thucydides, but he understood how she, being a Quaker, did not want to read about the Peloponnesian War. They came together on Henry James.

#2. The arithmetic of love defied intuition: only when given away did it multiply.