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    Susan Sontag
    “Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. ”
    ― Susan Sontag
    tags: art, art-criticism, criticism, critique, intelligence, interpretation, scholars, scholarship
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    Virginia Woolf
    “As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
    tags: clichés, dignity, double-standards, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, intelligence, men, misogyny, self-determination, social-norms, stereotypes, thought, women
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married”
    ― Virginia Woolf
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    Clara Barley
    “In this new landscape, away from all we know, I am able to push all the questions and all that society expects to one side, and I see that how I feel about her is simple. I love her.”
    ― Clara Barley, The Moss House
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    André Aciman
    “We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!”
    ― Andre Aciman, Call Me by Your Name
    tags: aciman, call-me-by-your-name, italy, love
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    Virginia Woolf
    “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
    tags: women
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    Anne Lister
    “Monday 29 January 1821 [Halifax]

    I love and only love the fairer sex and thus beloved by them in turn, my heart revolts from any love but theirs.”
    ― Anne Lister
    tags: glbt, love
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    Margaret Atwood
    “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
    tags: apocryphal, feminism
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    Margaret Atwood
    “But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
    tags: memory, pain
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    Aldous Huxley
    “But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: brave-new-world, hunger, thirst, yearning
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    Anne Lister
    “Saturday 12 July 1823 [Halifax]

    Could not sleep last night. Dozing, hot & disturbed ... a violent longing for a female companion came over me. Never remember feeling it so painfully before ... It was absolute pain to me.”
    ― Anne Lister
    tags: glbt, love, sex
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    Socrates
    “There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
    ― Socrates
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    Carrie Fisher
    “There’s no room for demons when you’re self possessed.”
    ― Carrie Fisher
    tags: carrie-fisher, debbie-reynolds, princess-leia
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    Kentaro Miura
    “If I have to worry about the ants I crush beneath my feet, I couldn't even walk around”
    ― Kentaro Miura, Berserk, Vol. 1
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    Katherine Mansfield
    “Isn't life,' she stammered, 'isn't life--' But what life was she couldn't explain. No matter. He quite understood.

    'Isn't it, darling?' said Laurie.”
    ― Katherine Mansfield, The Garden Party and Other Stories
    tags: death, innocence, life
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    Janet Frame
    “There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.”
    ― Janet Frame
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