Lillian

“I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel...”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.”
― Joan Didion

“A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“A village explainer. Excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not."
(on Ezra Pound)”
― Gertrude Stein