How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
"She was a novelist," said Lucy craftily. The remark was a happy one, for nothing roused Mrs. Honeychurch so much as literature in the hands of females. She would abandon every topic to inveigh against those women who (instead of minding their houses and their children) seek notoriety by print. Her attitude was: “If books must be written, let them be written by men”; and she it at great length, while Cecil yawned and Freddy played at "This year, next year, now, never," with his plum-stones, and Lucy artfully fed the flames of her mother's wrath (13.14).
Despite the fact that Mrs. Honeychurch is an adorable, lovable, and generally charming character, she is firmly rooted in the old-fashioned world that holds Lucy back. Her opinion on female authors demonstrates that she totally believes, without malice, in the pre-assigned traditional roles of men and women.
Quote #8
“[Cecil] daren't let a woman decide. He's the type who's kept Europe back for a thousand years. Every moment of his life he's forming you, telling you what's charming or amusing or ladylike, telling you what a man thinks womanly; and you, you of all women, listen to his voice instead of to your own” (16.24).
George sees right through Cecil’s “chivalry.” Here, he makes his already-obvious position as the anti-Cecil even more evident; he shows Lucy what she was unwilling (or unable?) to see about her fiancé. Because it’s absolutely the truth, it’s impossible for Lucy not to see Cecil in this light after her encounter with George.
Quote #9
Her voice swelled. “I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult. Can't I be trusted to face the truth but I must get it second-hand through you? A woman's place!” (17.8).
Go Lucy! She finally rejects the old-fashioned notion that men (specifically Cecil) have to “protect” women, and that men are the ones who get to decide what is right for women. Even though she’s still in the “Lying to Cecil” chapter, Lucy declares that she’s ready for the unadulterated truth – is she really?