Nancy Monson

“I know that disavowal is an unusal form of betrayal. From the outside it is impossible to tell if you are disowning someone or simply exercising discretion, being considerate, avoiding embarrassments and sources of irritation. But you, who are doing the disowning, you know what you're doing. And disavowal pulls the underpinnings away from a relationship just as surely as other more flamboyant types of betrayal.”
― Bernhard Schlink

“The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.”
― Herbert Spencer

“I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to get rich. ”
― Gertrude Stein

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own