"Helen Weaverâ€™s book was a revelation to me! Although I was a young woman in the fifties, I was there, but I wasnâ€™t there! This is the most graphic, honest, shameless and moving documentary of what the newly liberated women in cities got up toâ€“how they lived, loved and created. Who knew? It is time they did! And hereâ€™s how."

-- Carolyn Cassady

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“I've had only one idea in my life - a true idee fixe. To put it as bluntly as possible - the idea of having my own way. 'Control!' expresses it. The control of human behavior. In my early experimental days it was a frenzied, selfish desire to dominate. I remember the rage I used to feel when a prediction went awry. I could have shouted at the subjects of my experiments, 'Behave, damn you! Behave as you ought!”
“Virtue and vice suppose the freedom to choose between good and evil; but what can be the morals of a woman who is not even in possession of herself, who has nothing of her own, and who all her life has been trained to extricate herself from the arbitrary by ruse, from constraint by using her charms?... As long as she is subject to man's yoke or to prejudice, as long as she receives no professional education, as long as she is deprived of her civil rights, there can be no moral law for her!”
“The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves or have listened only to their neighbors to learn what they ought to do, how they ought to behave, and what the values are they should be living for.”
“The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.”

Source : Sir William Temple (1720). “The Works of Sir William Temple, Bart. ...: Observations upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands. Miscellanea. Memoirs. The third part. From the peace concluded 1679, to the time of the author's retirement from publick business. Memoirs ... from ... 1672, to 1679”, p.305
“I might have had too many friends in my twenties. I probably said yes too much, and then I had to learn how to say no. How to get away in order to work on stuff.”

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“For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.”

Source : W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”
“Keep a gratitude journal. Write down at least three things a day you are either thankful for, made you smile or genuinely inspired you.”
“Whether in the intellectual pursuits of science or in the mystical pursuits of the spirit, the light beckons ahead, and the purpose surging in our nature responds.”

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