Sofie Wolters > Sofie's Quotes

“From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, ... I wanted each and everyone of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure or man at twice it's natural size. ... That is why Napoleon and Mussolini both insist so empathetically upon the inferiority of women, for if they were not inferior, they would cease to enlarge.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“Een van de weinige ijzeren wetten van de geschiedenis is dat luxe zich vaak ontwikkelt tot noodzaak en dan weer nieuwe verplichtingen schept. Zodra mensen gewend raken aan een bepaalde luxe, gaan ze die voor lief nemen. Daarna gaan ze erop rekenen. Uiteindelijk bereiken ze het punt dat ze niet meer zonder kunnen.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind