Life is still better than University. In school, your teacher is the fruit picker and you are the open fruit basket. Then you take those fruits and make cakes and pies. But life is going...

In the end there is nothing to be done but to state clearly what has been done, without shame or regret, and say: Here I am, and this is what I am. Now deal with...

Mannequins can’t dress themselves. Stones go wherever you throw them.

She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exist and be free, that could simply say I am without adding a this, or a that, without...

LEONATOWell, then, go you into hell?BEATRICENo, but to the gate; and there will the devil meet me, like an old cuckold, with horns on his head, and say ‘Get you to heaven, Beatrice, get you...

[F]rom my years of understanding … I happily chose this kind of life in which I yet live [i.e., unmarried], which I assure you for my own part hath hitherto best contented myself and I...

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

I’m single because I was born that way.

It’s not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life,it’s what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!

I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

Milton’s Eve! Milton’s Eve! … Milton tried to see the first woman; but Cary, he saw her not … I would beg to remind him that the first men of the earth were Titans, and...

Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.

[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.

Your craft is comprehensive if it represents you.

There is no sin unless through a man’s own will, and hence the reward when we do right things also of our own will.”(Against Fortunatus)

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die....

Dream high, aim high.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

LEONATOWell, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband.BEATRICENot till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce...

What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: “You are a little girl and therefore you ought to like dolls”; if the answer is, “But I...

You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had...

Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.

Jupiter: I am not your king, impudent larva? Who then has created you?Orestes: You. But you should not have created me free.

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.

When the heart accepts death first, words you can trust are feelings you can take.

The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man...

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don’t let them put you in that position.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

Yes, faith; it is my cousin’s duty to make curtsy and say ‘Father, as it please you.’ But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and...

Now, it is frequently asserted that, with women, the job does not come first. What (people cry) are women doing with this liberty of theirs? What woman really prefers a job to a home and...

Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind, if she have not resolution enough to resist idle interference...

facing opportunity is inspired action .

Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself...

The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority...

We must endure the present circumstances for a far greater future.

I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not...

Reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of...

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

Oh the places you’ll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make...

A man don’t always have to eat what he’s standing life. If he wants, a man can fix a meal of his own choosing.

We all have vices, visible and invisible. Some we deliberately keep secret. Others we don’t even realize or we refuse to admit we have…Vices can be lots of fun, or they can turn your life...

If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening …

In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job’s sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is...

What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person...

You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!