Aims > Aims's Quotes

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“I cannot forget the follies and vices of others so soon as I ought, nor their offences against myself...My good opinion once lost is lost forever. - Fitzwilliam Darcy”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“Make them pay you what they would pay a white man”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid

“In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“It seems to me that psychology is only another word for what the ancients called fate.”
― Donna Tartt

“Your hair is winter fire
January embers
My heart burns there, too.”
― Stephen King, It

“Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.”
― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

“I know you told me that I could share your name. But even though I am sharing this, no one will ever feel the way we did. This love belongs to us and your name tastes better in my mouth than it will ever look on this paper.’

IHN
Denmark”
― Will Darbyshire, This Modern Love

“Timing is everything and my were we too early.”
― Will Darbyshire, This Modern Love

“For whatever reason it may be that things didn’t work out, it is the lessons learnt that will live on and will help guide us all to the next person, and maybe the right person. Somebody who will help mend and reinforce, rather than break and weaken.”
― Will Darbyshire, This Modern Love

“forelsket
a Norwegian word for the euphoria you experience when you are first falling in love”
― Will Darbyshire, This Modern Love

“Dear Rodri,

I truly hope you find someone who makes your heart sing in the same way my own did every time you kissed my flaws.

Gràcies per estimar-me.

Ariadna
Menorca, Spain”
― Will Darbyshire, This Modern Love

“Thank you for telling me about your newest favourite songs. I fall in love with every song you tell me about. And thanks for remembering my favourite constellation and telling me that when you see it at night you think of me. It makes me feel really close to you even though we’re half a world apart.
I love you.”
― Will Darbyshire, This Modern Love

“Why does the universe bring
people together and then tear them
apart?”
― Will Darbyshire

“Dear you,

I would love if you would give me my heart back, so I can actually mean the word "love" when I use it again.

Yours even though I know better,

Habiba
Egypt”
― Will Darbyshire, This Modern Love

“I dream of having a coffee together in that corner of Paris where Hemingway and de Beauvoir frequented. I want to sip on coffee and have those conversations you and I long to have with each other – to be the modern day intellectuals we think we are.”
― Will Darbyshire, This Modern Love

“Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.”
― Gloria Steinem

“Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.”
― Gloria Steinem

“You're always the person you were when you were born," she says impatiently. "You just keep finding new ways to express it.”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

“I myself cried when I got angry, then became unable to explain why I was angry in the first place. Later I would discover this was endemic among female human beings. Anger is supposed to be "unfeminine" so we suppress it -until it overflows. I could see that not speaking up made my mother feel worse. This was my first hint of the truism that depression is anger turned inward; thus women are twice as likely to be depressed. My mother paid a high price for caring so much, yet being able to do so little about it. In this way, she led me toward am activist place where she herself could never go.”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

“You should write about take no-shit women like me. Girls need to know they can break the rules" p.79”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

“I do not like to write - I like to have written.”
― Gloria Steinem

“The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us”
― Gloria Steinem

“Feminism...is not 'women as victims' but women refusing to be victims.”
― Gloria Steinem, The Trouble With Rich Women

“The root of oppression is the loss of memory.”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road