Paula

“A sense of responsibility would spoil her. She's too pretty.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“If you want to know what's in motherhood for you, as a woman, then - in truth - it's nothing you couldn't get from, say, reading the 100 greatest books in human history; learning a foreign language well enough to argue in it; climbing hills; loving recklessly; sitting quietly, alone, in the dawn; drinking whisky with revolutionaries; learning to do close-hand magic; swimming in a river in winter; growing foxgloves, peas and roses; calling your mum; singing while you walk; being polite; and always, always helping strangers. No one has ever claimed for a moment that childless men have missed out on a vital aspect of their existence, and were the poorer, and crippled by it.”
― Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman

“Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.”
― Elizabeth Hardwick

“And, like all the best quests, in the end, I did it all for a girl: me.”
― Caitlin Moran, How to Build a Girl