“She's got some sort of notion in her head concerning the eternal rights of women.”
― The Awakening
― The Awakening
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
― The White Album
― The White Album
“I could bend you with my finger and my thumb. A mere reed you feel in my hands. But whatever I do with this cage, I cannot get at you, and it is your soul that I want.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“She had all her life long been accustomed to harbor thoughts and emotions which never voiced themselves.”
― The Awakening
― The Awakening
“(About Georgia O'Keeffe:) 'The city men.' 'The men.' 'They.' The words crop up again and again as this astonishingly aggressive woman tells us what was on her mind when she was making her astonishingly aggressive paintings. It was those city men who stood accused of sentimentalizing her flowers: "I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower you hung all your associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see - and I don't.”
― The White Album: Essays
― The White Album: Essays
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