“Aber das Jahr ist lang, und jeder einzelne Tag . . . und dann der Abend”
― Effi Briest
― Effi Briest
“Mich ekelt, was ich getan; aber was mich noch mehr ekelt, das ist eure Tugend.”
― Effi Briest
― Effi Briest
“Die Welt ist einmal, wie sie ist, und die Dinge verlaufen nicht, wie wir wollen, sondern wie die andern wollen. [...] [U]nser Ehrenkultus ist ein Götzendienst, aber wir müssen uns ihm unterwerfen, solange der Götze gilt.”
― Effi Briest
― Effi Briest
“Almost every woman I have ever met has a secret belief that she is just on the edge of madness, that there is some deep, crazy part within her, that she must be on guard constantly against ‘losing control’ — of her temper, of her appetite, of her sexuality, of her feelings, of her ambition, of her secret fantasies, of her mind.”
― Sinister Wisdom 36: Surviving Psychiatric Assault & Creating Emotional Well-Being in Our Communities
― Sinister Wisdom 36: Surviving Psychiatric Assault & Creating Emotional Well-Being in Our Communities
“I need a father. I need a mother. I need some older, wiser being to cry to. I talk to God, but the sky is empty.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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