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A culture or a psychology predicated upon man as human and woman as other cannot accept a woman as artist.
Ursula K. Le Guin • Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
Suppose you should be walking down Broadway after dinner, with ten minutes allotted to the consummation of your cigar while you are choosing between a diverting tragedy and something serious in the way of vaudeville. Suddenly a hand is laid upon your arm. You turn to look into the thrilling eyes of a beautiful woman, wonderful in diamonds and Russi
... See moreO. Henry • The Gift of the Magi and Other Short Stories
His inconsistency. His inability to finish anything. His sudden terrifying feelings that nothing he did mattered. His realizations that what went on in the outside world had more substance than anything in his life.
Lydia Davis • The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
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A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
The world diminished a woman from the moment she stopped being sexually available to it, and there was nothing to do but accept that and grow older.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner • Fleishman Is in Trouble: A Novel
As for me, my days have settled into not very interesting compartments: our life, now my life, at home, and the excursions into what I think of as cathedral territory, where minor adventures may or may not take place. None of this is entirely satisfactory, which is why I have become something of a mental stalker. In my observations, as I go about m
... See moreAnita Brookner • Undue Influence
