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“Paris is always a good idea.”
― Audrey Hepburn

“I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.”
― Audrey Hepburn

“When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.”
― Audrey Hepburn

“If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.”
― Audrey Hepburn

“Happy girls are the prettiest”
― Audrey Hepburn

“I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.”
― Audrey Hepburn

“If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue.”
― Bell Hooks

“One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library..”
― bell hooks, Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem

“For most people, what is so painful about reading is that you read something and you don't have anybody to share it with. In part what the book club opens up is that people can read a book and then have someone else to talk about it with. Then they see that a book can lead to the pleasure of conversation, that the solitary act of reading can actually be a part of the path to communion and community.”
― Bell Hooks

“There are and will be those who think I have gone overboard. Let them rest assured that this assessment is correct, probably beyond their wildest imagination, and that I will continue to do so.”
― Mary Daly

“It is a mistake to seek in fantasies the key to concrete behaviour; for fantasies are created and cherished as fantasies. The little girl who dreams of violation with mingled horror and acquiescence does not really wish to be violated and if such a thing should happen it would be a hateful calamity.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“I dont' want to live - I want to love first, and live incidentally.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald