It is extraordinarily entertaining to watch the historians of the past ... entangling themselves in what they were pleased to call the "problem" of Queen Elizabeth. They invented the most complicated and astonishing reasons both for her success as a sovereign and for her tortuous matrimonial policy. She was the tool of Burleigh, she was the tool of Leicester, she was the fool of Essex; she was diseased, she was deformed, she was a man in disguise. She was a mystery, and must have some extraordinary solution. Only recently has it occrurred to a few enlightened people that the solution might be quite simple after all. She might be one of the rare people were born into the right job and put that job first.
Dorothy L. SayersTag: success gender women history feminism misogyny hypocrisy government achievements stereotypes skills abilities double-standards clichés career good-governance queen-elizabeth-i reign
We are much too much inclined in these days to divide people into permanent categories, forgetting that a category only exists for its special purpose and must be forgotten as soon as that purpose is served.
Dorothy L. SayersTag: individuality stereotypes classification categorization
A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men when they were by themselves. Was I, by any chance, a member of a large, mixed family with a lot of male friends? I replied that, on the contrary, I was an only child and had practically never seen or spoken to any men of my own age till I was about twenty-five. "Well," said the man, "I shouldn't have expected a woman (meaning me) to have been able to make it so convincing." I replied that I had coped with this difficult problem by making my men talk, as far as possible, like ordinary human beings. This aspect of the matter seemed to surprise the other speaker; he said no more, but took it away to chew it over. One of these days it may quite likely occur to him that women, as well as men, when left to themselves, talk very much like human beings also.
Dorothy L. SayersTag: gender men women natural writing fiction feminism prejudice misogyny conversation stereotypes double-standards clichés women-writers
If anybody ever marries you, it will be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle.
Dorothy L. SayersYou needn't try to bully me, young man," said that octogenarian with spirit, "settin' there spoilin' your stomach with them nasty jujubes.
Dorothy L. SayersTag: jujubes
Lord Peter was hampered in his career as a private detective by a public school education. Despite Parker's admonitions, he was not always able to discount it. His mind had been warped in its young growth by "Raffles" and "Sherlock Holmes," or the sentiments for which they stand. He belonged to a family which had never shot a fox.
'I am an amateur,' said Lord Peter
It is said that love and a cough cannot be hid.
Dorothy L. SayersTag: love
Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.
Dorothy L. SayersTag: greatness empowerment equality gender men women strong integrity human-nature feminism misogyny hypocrisy stereotypes feminist skills husbands men-and-women wives abilities double-standards clichés penina-mezei
The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry her. ... The great man, on the other hand, could marry where he liked, not being restricted to great women; indeed, it was often found sweet and commendable in him to choose a woman of no sort of greatness at all.
Dorothy L. SayersTag: greatness empowerment gender men women choice marriage feminism misogyny hypocrisy inequality stereotypes skills abilities double-standards clichés matrimony social-norms
He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed -- a kind of amiable absurdity.
Dorothy L. SayersTag: puppies appearance young-men
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