Quote by Jane Austen

“It was becoming difficult to separate her own decisions from those made by others, for her, on behalf of themselves.”

— Chris Pavone

“Everyone had their own agenda. She just had to stop reacting emotionally: decipher the real motives for their behaviour without taking every word as…

— Abby McDonald

“It was such a light, freeing feeling to not base her life on someone else’s opinion of her.”

— Cindi Madsen

“She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than…

— Jane Austen

“She had her own opinions on every subject, and kept steadily to them--very tiresome opinions they often were; as she was always thinking of…

— Emily Brontë

“She felt puzzled and ashamed, as always when people attributed to her emotions and motives they possessed and thought she shared.”

— Margaret Mitchell

“She [did feel] made aware of the pettiness of some part of her, and of human relations how flawed they are, how despicable, how…

— Virginia Woolf

“I was not altogether surprised to learn that she had taken her own life. I know now that some people feel unhappiness the way…

— Khaled Hosseini

“The only thing that counted to her was her own opinion of herself. If that became smirched or spoiled there would be nothing left.…

— Josephine Tey

“She judged people smartly and quickly, and often found herself in a huff.”

— Alice Hoffman

“…In the very simplicity of her desire to punish herself appeared egoism in its purest form. Never before had this woman who seemed to…

— Yukio Mishima

“She seemed almost to have a perverse impulse to make anyone who cared about her regret it, to find the thing that would most…

— Joe Hill