“You should write about take no-shit women like me. Girls need to know they can break the rules" p.79”
― My Life on the Road
― My Life on the Road
“Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism.”
― Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
― Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
“I hope, Cecily, I shall not offend you if I state quite frankly and openly that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection.”
― The Importance of Being Earnest
― The Importance of Being Earnest
“Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is."
(Sass: know, be aware of, meet, have sex with; hoopy: really together guy; frood: really amazingly together guy.)”
― The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
(Sass: know, be aware of, meet, have sex with; hoopy: really together guy; frood: really amazingly together guy.)”
― The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
“If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.”
― The Importance of Being Earnest
― The Importance of Being Earnest
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