“If your mother tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply that you won't. It is better and more becoming to intimate that you will do as she bids you, and then afterward act quietly in the matter according to the dictates of your best judgment.”
― Advice to Little Girls
― Advice to Little Girls
“If you love her," I said, "you'll love somebody else someday.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“If the content of a screen saver on an irrelevant computer can affect your willingness to help strangers without your being aware of it, how free are you?”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
“There is a difference between literature and just writing in your diary. I think perhaps the difference can be measured in degrees of pain. Hard work is also a factor. When I abandoned poetry there were so many questions lost to me as well. It remains astonishing to me the degree to which poetry has lost all value and meaning within the conditions of what I loosely refer to as corporate capitalism. Absolutely amazing.”
― Families are Formed Through Copulation
― Families are Formed Through Copulation
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