Swati Pant

“The greatest challenge of my life has been to see and accept the actual truth without great pain and struggle against it.”
― M.C. Halliday, I Came Up Stairs: A Victorian Courtesan's Memoirs, 1867 to 1871

“I can't help feeling that people ask too much [of life]. They don't keep up with the Joneses any more--they outstrip them. What people call happiness, today, isn't happiness. It's enjoyment. It's pleasure. And between happiness and pleasure there's a very large gap.”
― Elizabeth Cadell, Out of the Rain

“You'll be happy if you'll remember that men don't change much. Women do. Women adapt themselves, and if you think that means they lose their individuality, you're wrong. Show me a happy marriage and I'll show you a clever woman.”
― Elizabeth Cadell

“Males are simple creatures. If we can’t f**k it, we want to kill it.”
― Morgan Hawke, Victorious Star