How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
"They built their own Tevershall, that's part of their display of freedom. They built themselves their pretty Tevershall, and they live their own pretty lives. I can't live their lives for them. Every beetle must live its own life." (13.55)
Clifford is no compassionate conservative. For him, freedom means "freedom to hang"—that is, people are free to do whatever they want, including live in ignorance, starve in their ugly villages, and die in penury.
Quote #8
"It's obvious I'm at everybody's mercy!" said Clifford. He was yellow with anger.(13.185)
Confinement may be fine for Connie, but it's no good for Clifford. Trapped in his chair, he lashes out at Mellors and Connie—although he's the one who insisted on taking his wheelchair off-road.
Quote #9
"I don't know. She sort of kept her will ready against me, always, always: her ghastly female will: her freedom! A woman's ghastly freedom that ends in the most beastly bullying! Oh, she always kept her freedom against me, like vitriol in my face."(18.150)
There's nothing worse than a woman with a mind of her own when she should be in bed or in the kitchen where she belongs. Ooh, Mellors is just so sexy.