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  • #1
    Virginia Woolf
    “Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

  • #2
    “A strong woman builds her own world. She is one who is wise enough to know that it will attract the man she will gladly share it with.”
    Ellen J. Barrier, How to Trust God When All Other Resources Have Failed

  • #3
    bell hooks
    “No black woman writer in this culture can write ‘too much’. Indeed, no woman writer can write ‘too much’…No woman has ever written enough”
    Bell Hooks, Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work

  • #4
    Virginia Woolf
    “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

  • #5
    Virginia Woolf
    “Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #6
    Virginia Woolf
    “As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #7
    Virginia Woolf
    “Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #8
    Virginia Woolf
    “The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #9
    Virginia Woolf
    “When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #10
    Virginia Woolf
    “Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.”
    Virginia Woolf, Orlando

  • #11
    Virginia Woolf
    “Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.”
    Virginia Woolf, Orlando

  • #12
    Virginia Woolf
    “Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #13
    Virginia Woolf
    “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

  • #14
    Virginia Woolf
    “I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #15
    Virginia Woolf
    “She thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness.”
    Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

  • #16
    Virginia Woolf
    “Peter would think her sentimental. So she was. For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying – what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must say simply what one felt.”
    Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

  • #17
    Susan Sontag
    “Kindness, kindness, kindness.

    I want to make a New year's prayer, not a resolution. I'm praying for courage.”
    Susan Sontag

  • #18
    Susan Sontag
    “Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question of what to do with the feelings that have been aroused, the knowledge that has been communicated. If one feels that there is nothing 'we' can do -- but who is that 'we'? -- and nothing 'they' can do either -- and who are 'they' -- then one starts to get bored, cynical, apathetic.”
    Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others

  • #19
    Donna J. Haraway
    “Without sustained remembrance, we cannot learn to live with ghosts and so cannot think. (39)”
    Donna J. Haraway

  • #20
    Terence McKenna
    “Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.”
    Terence McKenna

  • #21
    W.B. Yeats
    “The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
    W.B. Yeats

  • #22
    Tom Robbins
    “...disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business....”
    Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

  • #23
    Tom Robbins
    “We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”
    Tom Robbins

  • #24
    Tom Robbins
    “A sense of humor...is superior to any religion so far devised.”
    Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

  • #25
    Tom Robbins
    “It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful...”
    Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

  • #26
    Tom Robbins
    “Breathe properly. Stay curious. And eat your beets.”
    Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

  • #27
    Richard Brautigan
    “One day
    Time will die
    And love will bury it”
    Richard Brautigan

  • #28
    Tom Robbins
    “The universe does not have laws. It has habits. And habits can be broken.”
    Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

  • #29
    Tom Robbins
    “The price of self-destiny is never cheap, and in certain situations it is unthinkable.”
    Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume



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