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“What's wrong with being in control anyway?" I demand, of the universe at large.
"Beats me."
"And what, just because I don't want kids, I would supposedly punish a pregnant woman for making a different decision than me? My favorite person's a pregnant woman! And I'm obsessed with my nieces. Not every decision a woman makes is some grand indictment on other women's lives."
"Nora," Charlie says. "It's a novel. Fiction."
"You don't get it because you're... you." I wave a hand at him.
"Me?" he says.
"You can afford to be all surly and sharp and people will admire you for it. The rules are different for women. You have to strike that perfect balance to be taken seriously but not seen as bitchy. It's a constant effort. People don't want to work with sharky women -"
"I do," he says.”
― Book Lovers
"Beats me."
"And what, just because I don't want kids, I would supposedly punish a pregnant woman for making a different decision than me? My favorite person's a pregnant woman! And I'm obsessed with my nieces. Not every decision a woman makes is some grand indictment on other women's lives."
"Nora," Charlie says. "It's a novel. Fiction."
"You don't get it because you're... you." I wave a hand at him.
"Me?" he says.
"You can afford to be all surly and sharp and people will admire you for it. The rules are different for women. You have to strike that perfect balance to be taken seriously but not seen as bitchy. It's a constant effort. People don't want to work with sharky women -"
"I do," he says.”
― Book Lovers
“Хоккей — спорт простой: если воля к победе сильнее, чем страх проиграть, значит, у тебя есть шанс. Тот, кто боится, не выиграет никогда.”
― Медвежий угол
― Медвежий угол
“Sometimes, even when you start with the last page and you think you know everything, a book finds a way to surprise you.”
― Book Lovers
― Book Lovers
“Instead of consoling us, my mother spoke sternly. 'Pull yourselves together. Surely I've brought you up better than this? we come into the world alone, and we leave it alone. And in between, too, if it is destined, we'll be alone. Draw on your inner strength. Remember, you can be your own worst enemy - or your best friend. It's up to you. And also this: what you can't change, you must endure.'
I knew it was mostly to me that she'd spoken. 'Endure'. A word solid as a tree trunk. A good word upon which to build a life, I thought. I would learn it, and it would help me through dark times.”
― The Forest of Enchantments
I knew it was mostly to me that she'd spoken. 'Endure'. A word solid as a tree trunk. A good word upon which to build a life, I thought. I would learn it, and it would help me through dark times.”
― The Forest of Enchantments
“Und doch ist jeder Beruf auf seine Art notwendig und ehrenvoll. Aber nur diejenigen, die keinen Beruf auszuüben brauchen, die sich ihr Geld nicht durch Arbeit verdienen müssen, sondern von ihrem Vermögen leben können, die auf dem Land ein geregeltes Leben führen, sich ihre zeit nach ihrem Belieben einteilen und sich ihren persönlichen Beschäftigungen hingeben können, nur diejenigen, sage ich, haben das Glück, sich ihre Gesundheit und ihr gutes Aussehen auch noch dann erhalten zu können, wenn sie nicht mehr ganz jung sind. Alle anderen büßen bald etwas von ihrer Schönheit ein.”
― Die Liebe der Anne Elliot - Das Buch zu der Netflix Verfilmung "Überredung"!
― Die Liebe der Anne Elliot - Das Buch zu der Netflix Verfilmung "Überredung"!
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