#men

Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#louisa-may-alcott #work #louisa-may-alcott

Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time to tell her… ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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So she enjoyed herself heartily, and found, what isn't always the case, that her granted wish was all she had hoped. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#ah #frequent #higher #highs #lows

The dirt is picturesque, so I don't mind. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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…in silence learned the sweet solace which affection administers to sorrow. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#louisa-may-alcott #sorrow #louisa-may-alcott

We are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others. ↗

— José Emilio Pacheco

#judgement #battle

Women writers make for rewarding (and efficient) lovers. They are clever liars to fathers and husbands; yet they never hold their tongues too long, nor keep ardent typing fingers still. ↗

— Roman Payne

#fathers #husbands #liars #lovers #lying

Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him. ↗

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

#judgement #judging #opinions #opinions

The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad. ↗

— Erica Jong

#bad #erica #girl #good #jong