“When you’re without problems,” Clare said, “you’re dead.”
― Smart Women
― Smart Women
“We spend too much time teaching girls to worry about what boys think of them. But the reverse is not the case. We don’t teach boys to care about being likable. We spend too much time telling girls that they cannot be angry or aggressive or tough, which is bad enough, but then we turn around and either praise or excuse men for the same reasons. All over the world, there are so many magazine articles and books telling women what to do, how to be and not to be, in order to attract or please men. There are far fewer guides for men about pleasing women.”
― We Should All Be Feminists
― We Should All Be Feminists
“Some people never get over their first loves. They spend their whole lives trying to recapture the thrill. Sometimes, after fifty years they get back together. They meet at some reunion or other and realize they were meant to be together.”
― Summer Sisters
― Summer Sisters
“It is pointless trying to know where the way leads. Think only of the first step. The rest will come.”
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“She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood—that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements. It could be brimful of occupations which did not weary you to the bone.”
― Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014
― Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014
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