“Sometimes being a good mother gets in the way of being a good person.”
― quote from A Woman of Independent Means
“Life causes estrangement enough—why do we add to it out of misplaced pride?”
― quote from A Woman of Independent Means
“I know now one must plan one’s old age as surely as one plans any other stage of life. The tragedy of Cousin Josie’s life is that she never knew what she wanted at any age—only what she did not want. She never wanted to marry nor to pursue a career, and in life, unlike grammar, double negatives do not produce an affirmative.”
― quote from A Woman of Independent Means
“Would that we could soar forever beyond the reach of earth, away from the dangers that await us the moment we alight.”
― quote from A Woman of Independent Means
“Es irracional creer —e incluso querer, sin duda— que se puedan tener todas las experiencias de la vida con la misma persona. Somos mucho más complicados y muy capaces de ser leales de por vida a muchas personas distintas de cualquier edad y sexo. ¿Por qué se empeña la sociedad en restringir al hombre y a la mujer a una sola relación de esa clase para siempre? Espero no romper jamás una promesa que haya hecho, pero si en este momento estuviera libre y sin compromiso, nunca volvería a prometer dedicación exclusiva a nadie.”
― quote from A Woman of Independent Means
“La vejez tendría que ser la recompensa de una vida de mucho trabajo, pero no será más que un castigo si insistimos en seguir haciendo lo mismo de siempre, midiendo los logros del presente por el baremo de los del pasado y quedándonos cortos sin remedio.”
― quote from A Woman of Independent Means
“Algunas veces, ser buena madre está reñido con ser buena persona.”
― quote from A Woman of Independent Means
“A dynamic female zoology professor expanded her intellectual horizons by urging her to take the daring step of majoring in biology rather than English. In doing so, Carson discovered that science not only engaged her mind but gave her “something to write about.”
― Rachel Carson, quote from Silent Spring
“The Field of Mars, June, death, life, white nights, Dasha, Dimitri, the all came…
And went.
But there Alexander still was, standing on that street, on that curb, in the sun, looking at her under the elms, looking at provenance across from him provenance in a white dress with red roses, licking her ice cream with red lips, singing. His and only his for one hundred minutes, blink of an eye and gone. It all was.”
― Paullina Simons, quote from Tatiana and Alexander
“He is no longer mine to lose, but the grief is there, a gnawing sense of disbelief.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Requiem
“Svak želi više, traži bolje ili strepi od goreg.”
― Ivo Andrić, quote from The Bridge on the Drina
“You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.”
― Nikolai Gogol, quote from Dead Souls
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