"There is a time in our lives, usually……" — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

"There is a time in our lives, usually in mid-life, when a woman has to make a decision - possibly the most important psychic decision of her future life - and that is, whether to be bitter or not. Women often come to this in their late thirties or early forties. They are at the point where they are full up to their ears with everything and they've "had it" and "the last straw has broken the camel's back" and they're "pissed off and pooped out." Their dreams of their twenties may be lying in a crumple. There may be broken hearts, broken marriages, broken promises."

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter. — Francis Bacon
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I am never writing a breakup record again, by the way. I'm done with being a bitter witch. — Adele
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Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost. — Terry Brooks
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