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“My experience has taught me that what you know isn’t always important.”
“What is important?”
“Living and growing,” Mrs. Wheatley said with finality. “Living your life.”
― Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit

“Anti-Love is not, to be fair, billed as Anti-Love. It's billed variously as resistance, revolt, revolution. Sometimes it's billed (tentatively or defiantly) as Self-Love.”
― Anna Moschovakis, Participation

“But what I mean about being a woman is, we might get married now and stay married for fifty years and I might be a stranger to every instant of that time and you might never know it."
"But if I were a stranger- you would know it?"
"For a woman, she said, "I think a man is always a stranger. And there's something awful about being at the mercy of a stranger.”
― James Baldwin , Giovanni's Room

“She was alone, and she liked it. It was the way she had learned everything important in her life.”
― Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit