"People always assume that bachelors are single by choice and spinsters because nobody asked them. It never enters their heads that poor bachelors might have worn the knees of their trousers out proposing to girls who rejected them or that a girl might deliberately stay unmarried ..."

-- Jilly Cooper

#Girl Quotes #People Quotes #Choices Quotes

“Im always terrified when Im writing.”
“a woman is not really dressed unless she is wearing a hat.”

Source : Virginia Graham (1967). “Don't blame the mirror”
“I can remember playing under the big wooden desk in his office. My mother didn't like us to chew gum, so we'd go into his office, and he'd feed us gum under the desk.”
“Culturally we don't allow women to be as free as they would like, because that is frightening. We either shun those women or deem them crazyâ€¦ But being that woman who pushes the boundaries means you also bring in less desirable aspects of yourself. At the end of the day, women are expected to hold up the world, not annihilate it.”

Source : Kim Gordon (2015). “Girl in a Band”, p.109, Faber & Faber
“If you know what you want, you will recognize it when you see it.”
“If what you want to do is write, then it's madness not to do it.”
“Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.”
“I will wait for love to fly to me and teach me how to fly”

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