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“I was born to be a spinster, and, by God, I'm going to spin.”
― Winifred Holtby

“In this pause, I suddenly saw something very clearly.

Whatever it was I wanted from my mother was simply not there to be had. It was not her fault.

And it was therefore not my fault that I was unable to elicit it.”
― Alison Bechdel, Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama

“Let us have the luxury of silence.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.”
― Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth

“And suddenly, as he noted the fine shades of manner by which she harmonized herself with her surroundings, it flashed on him that, to need such adroit handling, the situation must indeed be desperate.”
― Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth

“That's Lily all over, you know: she works like a slave preparing the ground and sowing her seed; but the day she ought to be reaping the harvest she over-sleeps herself or goes off on a picnic.”
― Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth

“Sharper than a serpent's tooth is a daughter's ingratitude. Still, the proudest spirits can be broken, with love.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants.”
― Margaret Atwood, Der blinde Mörder