“I don't see myself as a role model; people should look to mothers and sisters as role models.”
“I've been running from, and toward, death all my life, more aware of it than a person should be.”
“The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.”
Source : Jane Welsh Carlyle (1977). “I Too Am Here: Selections from the Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle”, p.40, Cambridge University Press
Source : "Roxane Gay Will Make You Proud to Be a Bad Feminist". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. July 24, 2014.
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