Monica

“Not being a nice man but a great poet is perfectly fine, as long as such a person is not your husband.”
― Jamaica Kincaid, Putting Myself Together: Writing 1974–

“the shrink diagnosed her with emotional detachment disorder, which seemed like a stretch to Greta, who preferred to think of it as “poise” on a bad day, “grace” on a good one, and, when she was feeling full of herself, “serenity.”
― Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

“I have served a genius for almost forty years. Hundreds of times I have felt my intellectual energy stir within me and all sorts of desires - a longing for education, a love of music and the arts… And time and again I have crushed and smothered these longings… Everyone asks, “But why should a worthless woman like you need an intellectual or artistic life?” To this question I can only reply: “I don’t know, but eternally suppressing it to serve a genius is a great misfortune".”
― Sophia Tolstoy

“These people knew what whiskeys were good, what wine was the thing with this food, that food, what places to go, how to dance, how to smoke, how much stress to put on love, how to dress, when to curse, and did not indulge, for the most part, in homosexuality, but could discuss it without eagerness, distate, curiosity, without anything but ennui.”
― Gwendolyn Brooks, Maud Martha