American dream Quote by Nancy Rubin Stuart

“This humanity of woman, brought forth in pains and degradations, will come to light when she has shed the conventions of mere femininity in…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“regardless of social status, we derive comfort from our stuff; the familiar warp and weft of our lives”

— Sue Grafton

“While we fancy ourselves going straight forward, and attaining, at every step, an entirely new position of affairs, we do actually return to something…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“In these days, when all things and memories of the past are at length become not only subservient to, but submerged by, the matters…

— Ptahhotep

“That day, instead, I saw clearly the mothers of the old neighbourhood. They were nervous, they were acquiescent. They were silent, with tight lips…

— Elena Ferrante

“Femininity goes much deeper than what we see in the mirror.”

— Trillia J. Newbell

“In the books of some memories it was the best time that ever sloshed over the world - the old time, the gay time,…

— John Steinbeck

“I settled into a contented routine of working, spending my free time with Veronica and, back in my student room, wanking explosively to fantasies…

— Julian Barnes

“In an era where women undress their outfits & give their bodies so carelessly, become the rare wild woman that undresses her mind and…

— Nikki Rowe

“Re-vision--the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction--is for women more than…

— Adrienne Rich

“Female forms of exquisite grace and beauty began to mingle in his mental adventures; nor was he long without looking abroad to compare the…

— Walter Scott