It will be a pity if women in ...

It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.
It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.
 Anita Brookner

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Sylvia Plath. Interesting poetess whose tragic suicide was misinterpreted as romantic by the college-girl mentality.
I think there was the studio mentality for a long time that women and girls can relate to a male hero, but boys and men can't relate to a female hero.
 Jennifer Lawrence
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
 Harriet Tubman
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
 William Ellery Channing
You must do the things you think you cannot do.

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You are wrong if you think you cannot live without love. I cannot live without it. I do not mean that I go into a decline, develop odd symptoms, became a caricature. I mean that I cannot live well without it. I cannot think or act or speak or write or even dream with any kind of energy in the absence of love. I feel excluded from the living world. I become cold, fish-like, immobile. I implode.
 Anita Brookner
Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
 Anita Brookner
Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.
 Anita Brookner
A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.
 Anita Brookner
Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.
 Anita Brookner