Gudrun

“But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“You will hear thunder and remember me,
and think: she wanted storms...”
― Anna Akhmatova

“A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando