Jean Rhys

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I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men-at least they can cry.

Jean Rhys

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Topic

Crying Men and women Masculinity

Author

Jean Rhys

Source

Good Morning, Midnight

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1939 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Rhys, Jean. Good Morning, Midnight. Constable Press, 1939.

Current Citation

Rhys, Jean. Good Morning, Midnight. W. W. Norton & Company, 2020.

We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky-and it would be so much less fun if we were... Some must cry so that others may be able to laugh the more heartily.

Jean Rhys

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Topic

Yin and yang

Author

Jean Rhys

Source

Good Morning, Midnight

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1939 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Rhys, Jean. Good Morning, Midnight. Constable Press, 1939.

Current Citation

Rhys, Jean. Good Morning, Midnight. W. W. Norton & Company, 2020.

The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still. Like when they say "As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end."

Jean Rhys

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Topic

Sunday

Author

Jean Rhys

Source

Voyage in the Dark

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1934 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Rhys, Jean. Voyage in the Dark. Constable Press, 1934, pt. 1, ch. 4.

Current Citation

Rhys, Jean. Voyage in the Dark. W. W. Norton & Company, 2020, pt. 1, ch. 4.