Famous quotes containing the word monstrous:
“She imagines herself clean as a fish,
evasive, solitary, dumb. Her prayer:
to make peace with her own monstrous nature.”
—Elaine Feinstein (b. 1930)
“It is unheard-of, uncivilized barbarism that any woman should still be forced to bear such monstrous torture. It should be remedied. It should be stopped. It is simply absurd that, with our modern science, painless childbirth does not exist as a matter of course.... I tremble with indignation when I think of ... the unspeakable egotism and blindness of men of science who permit such atrocities when they can be remedied.”
—Isadora Duncan (1878–1927)
“She would love still, but she would never again be tender till her daughter should have repudiated her base,—her monstrous engagement.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)