"Women, more than men, are bound by tradition and authority. What the father, the brother, the doctor, and the minister have said has been received undoubtingly. Until women throw off this reverence for authority they will not develop."

“But that's what happens when you allow a nice person to write a news paper serial for you; now the world thinks you're nice, too, which is silly in the extreme. Sadly, it's a burden that you must bear.”

Source : Karen Hawkins (2012). “The Taming of a Scottish Princess”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

“the mind naturally accommodates itself, even to the most ridiculous improprieties, if they occur frequently.”

“To listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.”

“Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.”

Source : Randall Jarrell, Mary Jarrell (1985). “Randall Jarrell's letters: an autobiographical and literary selection”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

“Art can make the old surprising, and the new and sudden soothing.”

“Suicide does not end the chances of life getting worse. Suicide eliminates the possibility of it ever getting better.”

“The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!”

“I am a citizen of the world, and also a citizen of Ukraine.”