Isabel Miller Quotes & Sayings

In your eyes I see myself become what I always dreamed I could be. — Isabel Miller

When the Indians saw us whipping our children, they thought at first that we must hate our children, but then they thought, no, no one can hate his child. They decided it must be a religious rite, to make the child hate this world and long for the next. We're a strange vicious people. — Isabel Miller

...life is a river — Isabel Miller

I began to wonder if what makes men walk so lordlike and speak so masterfully is having the love of women. If that was it, Sarah and I would make lords of each other. — Isabel Miller

Loving Sarah had freed all my tender feelings for women. I could always find in my heart an excuse for anything any woman did. — Isabel Miller

And I felt, I think for the first time, a rage against men. Not because they could say, "I'm going," and go. Not because they could go to college and become lawyers or preachers while women could only be drudge or ornament but nothing between. Not because they could be parents at no cost to their bodies. But because when they love a woman they may be with her, and all society will protect their possession of her. — Isabel Miller