time
- their eyes: ‘Time makes everything old so the kissing, young darkness became a
monstropolous old thing while Janie talked.’ p9
- their eyes: ‘Waiting for the world to be made.’
- their eyes: ‘So Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time and an orange time.’
marriage/love
- their eyes: ‘So this was a marriage!’ p13
- their eyes: ‘But anyhow Janie went on inside to wait for love to begin.’
- their eyes: “Cause you told me Ah mus gointer love him, and, and Ah don’t. Maybe if
somebody was to tell me how, Ah could do it. [...] Ah wants to want him sometimes.
Ah don’t want him to do all de wantin’.”
- their eyes: ‘The bed was no longer a daisy-field for her and Joe to play in. It was a
place where she went and laid down when she was sleepy and tired.’
- their eyes: “Ah jus’ loves dis freedom.” (Pheoby responds: “Sh-sh-sh! Don’t let
nobody hear you say dat, Janie. Folks will say you ain’t sorry he’s gone.”) p106
- their eyes: “Things lak dat got uh whole lot tuh do wid convenience, but it ain’t got
nothin’ tuh do wid love.” p120
- their eyes: “[Marriage] always changes folks, and sometimes it brings out dirt and
meanness dat even de person didn’t know they had in ‘em theyselves.” p129
- mrs dalloway: ‘For in marriage a little licence, a little independence there must be.’ p8
- mrs dalloway: ‘To love makes one solitary.’ p25
- mrs dalloway: ‘Had not that, after all, been love?’ p35
- mrs dalloway: ‘they spoke of marriage always as a catastrophe.’ p37
- mrs dalloway: ‘there’s nothing so bad for some women as marriage.’ p44
- mrs dalloway: ‘Everyone gives up something when they marry.’ p72
- mrs dalloway: ‘She would marry when it suited her to marry.’ p 79
- mrs dalloway: ‘One of the tragedies of married life.’ p84
ideas about gender
- their eyes: “so it wasn’t for me to fulfill my dreams of whut a woman oughta be and to
do.”
- their eyes: “Uh woman by herself is uh pitiful thing [...] Dey needs aid and assistance.
God never meant ‘em tuh try stand by theirselves.” p102-3
- their eyes: “You better sense her intuh things [...] Throwin’ away whut Joe Starks
worked hard tuh git tuhgether.”
- mrs dalloway: ‘Women live much more in the past than we do.’ p60
- mrs dalloway: ‘That woman’s gift, of making a world of her own wherever she
happened to be.’ p83
- mrs dalloway: ‘Interested in politics like a man.’
- mrs dalloway: “My dear, you ladies are all alike.” p184
- their eyes: ‘Time makes everything old so the kissing, young darkness became a
monstropolous old thing while Janie talked.’ p9
- their eyes: ‘Waiting for the world to be made.’
- their eyes: ‘So Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time and an orange time.’
marriage/love
- their eyes: ‘So this was a marriage!’ p13
- their eyes: ‘But anyhow Janie went on inside to wait for love to begin.’
- their eyes: “Cause you told me Ah mus gointer love him, and, and Ah don’t. Maybe if
somebody was to tell me how, Ah could do it. [...] Ah wants to want him sometimes.
Ah don’t want him to do all de wantin’.”
- their eyes: ‘The bed was no longer a daisy-field for her and Joe to play in. It was a
place where she went and laid down when she was sleepy and tired.’
- their eyes: “Ah jus’ loves dis freedom.” (Pheoby responds: “Sh-sh-sh! Don’t let
nobody hear you say dat, Janie. Folks will say you ain’t sorry he’s gone.”) p106
- their eyes: “Things lak dat got uh whole lot tuh do wid convenience, but it ain’t got
nothin’ tuh do wid love.” p120
- their eyes: “[Marriage] always changes folks, and sometimes it brings out dirt and
meanness dat even de person didn’t know they had in ‘em theyselves.” p129
- mrs dalloway: ‘For in marriage a little licence, a little independence there must be.’ p8
- mrs dalloway: ‘To love makes one solitary.’ p25
- mrs dalloway: ‘Had not that, after all, been love?’ p35
- mrs dalloway: ‘they spoke of marriage always as a catastrophe.’ p37
- mrs dalloway: ‘there’s nothing so bad for some women as marriage.’ p44
- mrs dalloway: ‘Everyone gives up something when they marry.’ p72
- mrs dalloway: ‘She would marry when it suited her to marry.’ p 79
- mrs dalloway: ‘One of the tragedies of married life.’ p84
ideas about gender
- their eyes: “so it wasn’t for me to fulfill my dreams of whut a woman oughta be and to
do.”
- their eyes: “Uh woman by herself is uh pitiful thing [...] Dey needs aid and assistance.
God never meant ‘em tuh try stand by theirselves.” p102-3
- their eyes: “You better sense her intuh things [...] Throwin’ away whut Joe Starks
worked hard tuh git tuhgether.”
- mrs dalloway: ‘Women live much more in the past than we do.’ p60
- mrs dalloway: ‘That woman’s gift, of making a world of her own wherever she
happened to be.’ p83
- mrs dalloway: ‘Interested in politics like a man.’
- mrs dalloway: “My dear, you ladies are all alike.” p184
