Quote by Cory Doctorow

“The trouble with your ideals is that if you live up to all of them, you become impossible to live with.”

— Anthony de Mello

“She who does not make the world better for having lived in it has failed to be all that woman should be.”

— Karen Andreola

“What good was a personal victory to someone who'd spent her life losing herself for the greater good of everyone else?”

— Jodi Picoult

“Though I do admire many of her ideals, I'm afraid they are all terribly impractical for real life.”

— E.L. Bates

“Things were not so simple after all. She could not understand even her own feelings. She saw the most cherished of her convictions put…

— Virginia Woolf

“The world is full of people who will go their whole lives and not actually live one day. She did not intend on being…

— Leigh Standley

“She was tired of everyone deciding her life for her. She was ready to figure out who she really was--not what anyone else told…

— Marissa Meyer

“She was a failure. That's what she thought. She had come to the forest to see the world, but all she found was wretchedness.”

— Robert Beatty

“A part of her wanted to stop pushing herself, stop feeling compelled to rise to the occasion of being her best self. She wanted…

— Katherine Morgan Schafler

“What we have not chosen we cannot consider either our merit or our failure... To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish…

— Milan Kundera

“The subjects of her talk didn't matter; he knew what she was really saying. Helpless and gentle, small and tired and anxious to please,…

— Richard Yates

“...I've always idealized women I've loved - they all fell short, save one - the one God chose for me - she lights up…

— John Geddes