#line

The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. But Jean Rhys, in her biography, is read as borderline; Anaïs Nin is borderline; Djuna is borderline; etc. etc. Borderline personality disorder being an overwhelmingly gendered diagnosis. I write in Heroines: “The charges of borderline personality disorder are the same charges against girls writing literature, I realize—too emotional, too impulsive, no boundaries. ↗

— Kate Zambreno

#women-writers #men

If you don't acquire the discipline to push through a personal low point, you will miss the reward that comes with persevering. ↗

— Jeff Goins

#inspirational #motivational #perseverance #struggle #inspirational

She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much. ↗

— Betty Smith

#girls #inspirational #loneliness #suffering #inspirational

I am never alone wherever I am. The air itself supplies me with a century of love. When I breathe in, I am breathing in the laughter, tears, victories, passions, thoughts, memories, existence, joys, moments, and the hues of the sunlight on many tones of skin; I am breathing in the same air that was exhaled by many before me. The air that bore them life. And so how can I ever say that I am alone? ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#breath #breathing #inspirational-life #inspirational-quotes #inspiring

If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#inspirational #truth #writing #inspirational

It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And then one fine morning— So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#final-words #inspirational #inspirational

It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#conclude #difficult #masculine #me #milton

Well, we've made some changes on this tour. We're no longer sleeping in the parking lots and swimming in the fountains. We've been staying in hotels most of the way, though I will say some hotels have declined to take us because we're just having too much fun. ↗

— Bill Walton

#been #changes #declined #fountains #fun

I was thinking about that, about what lines you'd be willing to cross if someone took your loved one or child. ↗

— Rick Yune

#child #cross #i #lines #loved

Nature gives us all, including Prof. Lorentz, surprises. It was very quickly found that there are many exceptions to the rule of splitting of the lines only into triplets. ↗

— Pieter Zeeman

#found #gives #including #into #lines