Children Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

“For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need…

— Virginia Woolf

“For now she need not think about anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need…

— Virginia Woolf

“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

“Everyone whirled around her, entranced by the stories in which they recognized themselves, but in the stories they were also more than themselves and…

— Francesca Block

“She had believed that she alone could touch his heart, and that likewise his was the only gaze that would ever reach hers. She…

— Noriko Ogiwara

“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 has no body as others have. People have no meaning to her. She has no answer for them. Her mind steps into emptiness,…

— Virginia Woolf

“She found herself suddenly surrounded by a host of assumptions. It was assumed that she trembled for joy in his presence, languished in his…

— Vita Sackville-West

“So she had to satisfy herself with the idea of love – loving the loving of things whose existence she didn’t care at all…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“And thus it was she who first gave me the idea that a person does not, as I had imagined, stand motionless and clear…

— Marcel Proust

“She pictured herself in a world without him, a world where she had only her own heart and mind to follow. A world open…

— Nicole Mones

“In the material world below, she always felt lonely and there was nobody to understand her true nature. She always knew that she didn’t…

— Stevan V. Nikolic