About Winifred Holtby: Winifred Holtby was an English novelist and journalist, best known for her novel South Riding.
The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.
These are they whose youth was violently severed by war and death; a word on the telephone, a scribbled line on paper, and their future ceased. They have built up their lives again, but their safety is not absolute, their fortress not impregnable.
The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.
What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones.
I am a feminist because I dislike everything that feminism implies. I desire an end to the whole business, the demands for equality, the suggestion of sex warfare, the very name feminist. I want to be about the work in which my real interests like, t...
