“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
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“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?”
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“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
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