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    Susanna Kaysen
    “If I could have any job in the world I'd be a professional Cinderella.”
    ― Susanna Kaysen
    tags: dream
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    Susanna Kaysen
    “With wild eyes that had seen freedom.”
    ― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted
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    Susanna Kaysen
    “Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco. ”
    ― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted
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    Dorothy Parker
    “A hangover is the wrath of grapes.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: humour
    359 likes

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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “We loved with a love that was more than love.”
    ― Edgar Allen Poe
    tags: logic, love
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “And all I loved, I loved alone.”
    ― Edgar Allen Poe
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: beauty, death, poetry, women
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    Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
    “Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
    ― Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
    tags: inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, women
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    Joseph Conrad
    “Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Chance
    tags: women
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    Nora Ephron
    “Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
    ― Nora Ephron
    tags: courage, empowerment, self-determination, women
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    Bette Davis
    “When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.”
    ― Bette Davis
    tags: clichés, double-standards, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, misogyny, opinions, speaking-out, stereotypes, women
    6162 likes

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    Cheris Kramarae
    “Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings.”
    ― Cheris Kramarae
    tags: feminism, women
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: disappointment, dorian-gray, marriage, men, relationships, women
    2864 likes

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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
    2595 likes

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    Mae West
    “Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.”
    ― Mae West, The Wit and Wisdom of Mae West
    tags: ambition, disobedience, empowerment, girls, goodness, naughty, promiscuity, risque, self-determination, wickedness, women
    2056 likes

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    Giacomo Casanova
    “Be the flame, not the moth.”
    ― Giacomo Casanova
    tags: passion, self-destruction
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    Anaïs Nin
    “I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: anais-nin, inspirational, living, mermaids, no-fear, sea
    3014 likes

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    Sylvia Plath
    “Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”
    ― sylvia plath
    tags: goals
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I talk to God but the sky is empty.”
    ― Sylvia Plath
    tags: doubt, faith, god, prayer
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “The earth laughs in flowers.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: flowers, laughter
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on the top of the beer can.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: melancholy, sadness
    291 likes

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    Suzanne Palmieri
    “Mermaids don't drown.”
    ― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Belladonna Bay
    tags: belief, mermaids
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: devil, hell, world
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    Anaïs Nin
    “I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.”
    ― Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932
    tags: empowerment, feminism, woman, women-s-strenth
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    Anaïs Nin
    “I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman.”
    ― Anais Nin, Henry & June
    1079 likes



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