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“A fundamental error that I have noticed within a lot of independent women, is that by default, they must succeed. If not, their self-reflection in stagnation will overcome them. In striving to succeed immediately, they have failed successfully, and have fallen into the ocean of persistence and fluctuation. But it's not all in vain, for hope is a returning daydream. Unknown to them, their opposite is merely sleeping with time, awaiting the impending song of daybreak's bell.”
― Lionel Suggs

“Men--not just babies like you, but old men, too--they always need a woman to tell them the truth. Les hommes, ils sont impossibles.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“I was my own woman.
The next step was to find the proper sort of man.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“We live close together and we live far apart. We all go through the same things-it's all just a different kind of the same thing.”
― Susan Glaspell, Trifles