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You could sit up as late as you pleased, and, whenever you got up, go abroad without any landlord or house-lord dogging you for rent. Many a man is harassed to death to pay the rent of a larger and more luxurious box who would not have frozen to death in such a box as this.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
“In this world love has no color— yet how deeply my body is stained by yours,”
Hillary Jordan • Anonymous Sex
was their relation, and his coming to her like that, openly, so that anyone could see, that discomposed her; for then people said he depended on her,
Virginia Woolf • To the Lighthouse
"Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private ownership mostly, or out of it altogether. But these good ladies were very much on the stage, and yet any one of them might have been a grandmother.
Charlotte Gilman • Herland
The other great lesson to take from Virginia Woolf is her attitude to failure, which was extremely open. She recognized that it was necessary to go through a lot of self-doubt and self-examination before you could say anything that really mattered.
Viv Groskop • How to Own the Room: Women and the Art of Brilliant Speaking
they weren't "feminine," they lacked "charm," now became a great comfort.
Charlotte Gilman • Herland
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
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Charlotte Gilman • Herland
I daresay I must call this my home – though truly there never was so dank and drear a place – though Essex being flat and featureless at least has in its favour the kind of skies which all my life I have sought – I confess to having been surprised by affection for my husband – this dreadful emotion roused by discovering that he has commissioned a r
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