Elena

“Love loves to love love”
― James Joyce

“Perhaps we women are more willing to break the ice. Two things that made this possible most often in many of our lives were intimate friendship and reading.”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

“I also remembered Buddy Willard saying in a sinister, knowing way that after I had children I would feel differently. I wouldn't want to write poems any more. So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about numb as a slave in some private, totalitarian state.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“The bride and her mother could neither of them talk fast enough;”
― Jane Austen, Pride & Prejudice