Quote by George Eliot

“Exalted by a sentiment of which she was proud, and that overcame all her arrogance, she was reluctant to let a moment of her…

— Stendhal

“Next she lost her belief in the sincerity of those about her. She secretly refused to believe that anyone (herself excepted) loved anyone. All…

— Thornton Wilder

“She lacks the core of sureness, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on reflections of herself in others' eyes. She does not dare to…

— Anaïs Nin

“It was only in the first few years that she felt herself screaming silently, at times, for a glimpse of human ability, a single…

— Ayn Rand

“She knew that she had become a burden to him: she took things too seriously, turning everything into a tragedy, and failed to grasp…

— Milan Kundera

“She had a sense of comedy that was really exquisite, but she needed people, always people, to bring it out, with the inevitable result…

— Virginia Woolf

“She was not willing to let others narrate her life and her death. While there is one person like her in this world, I…

— Ariel Dorfman

“What she was doing, what she had just done, was for her not about frivolity, it was about the essential, about being human, living…

— Mohsin Hamid

“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

“She was too dependent on what other people thought of her, and that was her downfall. She cared too much. She was only what…

— Steph Bowe

“You could see that her tremendous inside life, its solitary fears and fires, was out of accord with her humble view of herself; to…

— Elizabeth Bowen

“she was the kind of woman who only gave herself away in small doses, leaving men wandering like little children at all that she…

— Christopher Poindexter