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“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“È sciocco dubitar di se stessi come sarebbe dubitare del proprio miglior amico: anzi si deve cercare di essere il proprio miglior amico e di vivere così in eletta compagnia.”
― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own