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“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
― Virginia Woolf

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.”
― Charles Dickens, Hard Times

“I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.”
― Charles Dickens

“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.”
― Charles Dickens

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
― Charles Dickens

“We could have saved [the Earth] but we were too damned cheap.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”
― Virginia Woolf

“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art”
― Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Four: 1931-1935

“What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

“To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.”
― Willa Cather

“People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.”
― Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark

“I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.”
― Albert Einstein

“Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.”
― Rita Mae Brown, Riding Shotgun

“I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time.”
― Iris Murdoch

“do whatever it was they expected her to do because they were always expecting her to do something more or be something more until it didn’t feel like there was enough of her left to go around.”
― Sheri S. Tepper, The Gate to Women's Country

“unwilling”
― N.E. Conneely, Witch for Hire

“I agree. Humans want to figure everything out. They are unwilling to let something be.”
― N.E. Conneely, Witch for Hire

“People would wonder why the poor and disadvantaged didn’t just pull themselves up by the net strings—people who’d never been poor or disadvantaged. What they didn’t realize was that you couldn’t make something out of nothing. And if you had nothing, you needed help from people who had something.”
― Erin Johnson, Pet Psychic Mysteries: Paranormal Cozy Boxset Books 1-4

“Actually, it's called television,” Conri said. Then he blinked. “Holy apples of Danu! You can use the Internet for more than free porn?”
― Amy Sumida, Careless Wishes

“As little as possible these days, actually.” I tilt my head. “I'm trying to avoid all the spread of toxic negativity, until the world turns back into a reasonable place again.”
― Rachel Rivers, Bedknobs & Broomhilda Sticks

“Well, hopefully those who were hunted know better now than to turn on others.”
― Sabrina Hale, A Witch in Legacy: A Young Adult Urban Fantasy Novel