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“But sometimes terror and exhilaration are separated by the thinnest of margins.
“You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad.”
― The Little Prince
― The Little Prince
“When a woman says, ‘I have nothing to wear!’, what she really means is, ‘There’s nothing here for who I’m supposed to be today.”
― How to Be a Woman
― How to Be a Woman
“Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.”
― What the Dead Know
― What the Dead Know
“For if you feel for me as i do for you - then I am asking you to tear out your heart and live without it.”
― Dragonfly in Amber
― Dragonfly in Amber
“For throughout history, you can read the stories of women who - against all the odds - got being a woman right, but ended up being compromised, unhappy, hobbled or ruined, because all around them, society was still wrong. Show a girl a pioneering hero - Sylvia Plath, Dorothy Parker, Frida Kahlo, Cleopatra, Boudicca, Joan of Arc - and you also, more often than not, show a girl a woman who was eventually crushed.”
― How to Be a Woman
― How to Be a Woman
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