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#1

“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself”
― Simone de Beauvoir

tags: feminism

3060 likes

#2

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

71735 likes

#3

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

tags: inspirational

8697 likes

#4

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
― Margaret Atwood

tags: apocryphal, feminism

3968 likes

#5

“We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Volume 1

1880 likes

#6

“When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

1172 likes

#7

“The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.”
― Stanley Kubrick

352 likes

#8

“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

4501 likes

#9

“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: classics

1892 likes

#10

“He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: feminism

1282 likes

#11

“Till this moment I never knew myself.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

1411 likes

#12

“Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: jane-austen, lizzie, pride-and-prejudice

1216 likes

#13

“Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be...”
― William Wordsworth

tags: glory, hope, poetry, strength

949 likes

#14

“...though nothing is damaged, everything is changed.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

69 likes

#15

“This desire to govern a woman—it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together.... But I do love you surely in a better way than he does." He thought. "Yes—really in a better way. I want you to have your own thoughts even when I hold you in my arms.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

352 likes

#16

“When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

tags: classics, love

448 likes

#17

“Hearts are made to be broken.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

7906 likes

#18

“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: ataraxy, defiance, empowerment, independence, individuality, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude

4963 likes

#19

“The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.”
― Charlotte Brontë

tags: companionship, loneliness, marriage, single, spinsterhood

3087 likes

#20

“Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.”
― Pauline Kael

40 likes

#21

“Girl
Don't be dumb
Don't be coy
Don't be intimidated
Don't think it can't happen to you
Do safer sex because AIDS kills
Don't die for love”
― Barbara Kruger

3 likes

#22

“I have no complaints, except for the world.”
― Barbara Kruger

tags: complaints, the-world

7 likes

#23

“Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.”
― John Lennon

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