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  • #1
    Margaret Atwood
    “A word after a word after a word is power.”
    Margaret Atwood

  • #2
    Virginia Woolf
    “Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness; second, that there are twenty-five elderly gentlemen living in the neighbourhood of London who resent any slight upon her genius as if it were an insult to the chastity of their aunts.”
    Virginia Woolf , A Room of One’s Own

  • #3
    Sylvia Plath
    “Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #4
    Virginia Woolf
    “No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #5
    E.E. Cummings
    “who knows if the moon's
    a balloon,coming out of a keen city
    in the sky--filled with pretty people?
    ( and if you and I should

    get into it,if they
    should take me and take you into their balloon,
    why then
    we'd go up higher with all the pretty people

    than houses and steeples and clouds:
    go sailing
    away and away sailing into a keen
    city which nobody's ever visited,where

    always
    it's
    Spring)and everyone's
    in love and flowers pick themselves”
    e.e. cummings, Collected Poems

  • #6
    Germaine Greer
    “A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.”
    Germaine Greer

  • #7
    Erica Jong
    “The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.”
    Erica Jong

  • #8
    Jane Austen
    “What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person I may say? No, I have no idea of being so easily persuaded. When I have made up my mind, I have made it.”
    Jane Austen, Persuasion

  • #9
    Sylvia Plath
    “And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #10
    Ayn Rand
    “Don't fool yourself, my dear. You're much worse than a bitch. You're a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.”
    Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

  • #11
    Jane Austen
    “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #12
    Henri J.M. Nouwen
    “When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
    Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life

  • #13
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.”
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  • #14
    Lao Tzu
    “Be content with what you have;
    rejoice in the way things are.
    When you realize there is nothing lacking,
    the whole world belongs to you.”
    Lao Tzu

  • #15
    Nicholas Sparks
    “I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?”
    Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

  • #16
    Ray Bradbury
    “Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?"
    "Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.”
    Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

  • #17
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    “I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.”
    Edna St. Vincent Millay

  • #18
    Nick Hornby
    “It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.”
    Nick Hornby

  • #19
    Tom Robbins
    “When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.”
    Tom Robbins

  • #20
    Sylvia Plath
    “August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #21
    Kelly Siskind
    “He waited for me to stand and join him, then he threaded our fingers together. My best friend, the boy I'd loved my entire life, was holding my hand.”
    Kelly Siskind, Licks

  • #22
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.”
    Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

  • #23
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “It is perfectly natural for the future woman to feel indignant at the limitations posed upon her by her sex. The real question is not why she should reject them: the problem is rather to understand why she accepts them.”
    Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

  • #24
    C.G. Jung
    “You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.”
    Carl Gustav Jung

  • #25
    C.G. Jung
    “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
    C.G. Jung

  • #26
    C.G. Jung
    “The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”
    Carl Gustav Jung

  • #27
    C.G. Jung
    “The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.”
    Carl Gustav Jung

  • #28
    C.G. Jung
    “What you resist, persists”
    C.G. Jung

  • #29
    Sigmund Freud
    “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
    Sigmund Freud

  • #30
    Sigmund Freud
    “There are no mistakes”
    Sigmund Freud



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