“Were we so different? She loved once. She hoped once. I could be her. I might be looking into my own future. Until the real future came falling from the air.”

Shizuko Hoshi - Sayuri Narration

“Women. Ya can't live with 'em, ya can't live without 'em.”

“My life has been bitter and hard. I'm not like other women. All the gentleness and kindness in me has been killed.”
Barbara Stanwyck - Lily

“A woman's whole life in a single day. Just one day. And in that day her whole life.”
Nicole Kidman - Virginia Woolf

“- Amy Robbins: I'm a twentieth century woman. I have a career and a mind of my own. Be reasonable. How am I gonna make it in 1893?
- H.G. Wells: Is your career so important? It's your life we're talking about!
- Amy Robbins: My work is my life. As much as yours or any other man's.”
Mary Steenburgen - Amy Robbins
Malcom McDowell - H.G. Wells