"Here is how it is for women. We become our schedules. That starts to feel good. Then it starts to feel necessary. Then it starts to feel like everything."

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Source : Jacquelyn Mitchard (1999). “The Rest of Us: Dispatches from the Mother Ship”, p.174, Penguin

Jacquelyn Mitchard

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“Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened.”

Source : Siri Hustvedt (2007). “A Plea for Eros: Essays”, p.41, Macmillan
“The impact of an attacking tiger can be compared to that of a piano falling on you from a second story window. But unlike the piano, the tiger is designed to do this, and the impact is only the beginning.”
“When people believe that every move they make is going to affect their compensation, they tend to get risk averse.”
“Your eyes flashed fire into my soul. I immediately read the words of Dostoyevsky and Karl Marx, and in the words of Albert Schweitzer, I FANCY YOU!”
“I was mentally, emotionally and verbally abused by my father as far back as I can remember until I left home at the age of eighteen”
“It's not enough to be tolerant...now we're finally moving towards the idea of acceptance.”
“The smallest pebble in the well of truth has its peculiar meaning, and will stand when man's best monuments have passed away.”

Source : Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “The poetical works of N.P. Willis”, p.161
“You donâ€™t marry for love. What does love got to do with marriage? I spit on love and marriage. You marry for money.”

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