“one of the things I’ve learned is that we ought to live despite.”
― An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
― An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
“It is so mysterious to want to suppress women. It is even more mysterious when women want to suppress women. I can only think we are so very powerful that we need to be suppressed all the time.”
― The Cost of Living
― The Cost of Living
“As Simone de Beauvoir had told us, women are not supposed to eclipse men in a world in which success and power are marked out for them. It is not easy to take up the historic privilege of dominance over women... if he is economically dependent on her talents. At the same time, she receives the fatal message that she must conceal her talents and abilities in order to be loved by him.”
― The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
― The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
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