Laura Jones

“Work hard, think hard, be honest, and spend little - this will "make common gold".”
― P. T. Barnum, The Humbugs of The World by Barnum, P. T.

“But, nevertheless, it is anything but agreeable to be haunted by a suspicion that one's intellect is dwindling away, or exhaling, without your consciousness, like ether out of a phial; so that, at every glance, you find a smaller and less volatile residuum.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“Who cares for his causes of complaint? Are you to break your heart to set his mind at ease? No man under heaven deserves these sacrifices from us women. Men! They are the enemies of our innocence and our peace - they drag us away from our parents' love and our sisters' friendship - they take us body and soul to themselves, and fasten our helpless lives to theirs as they chain up a dog to his kennel. And what does the best of them give us in return?”
― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

“I don’t like this life; but I do it. Like a good girl.”
― Sylvia Plath, Sylvia Plath: Her Drawings