Jasmine

“Who cares for his causes of complaint? Are you to break your heart to set his mind at ease? No man under heaven deserves these sacrifices from us women. Men! They are the enemies of our innocence and our peace—they drag us away from our parents' love and our sisters' friendship—they take us body and soul to themselves, and fasten our helpless lives to theirs as they chain up a dog in a kennel. And what does the best of them give us in return?”
― Wilkie Collins

“(Let us be trivial, let us be intimate.)”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves