Psychology Quote by Nathanael West

Her sureness was based on the power to limit experience arbitrarily.

— Nathanael West

“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

“Most people saw her as supremely confident and self assured but beneath that were the doubts.”

— Lauren Dane

“She had never done these things before; she did them expertly. She had a capacity for action, a competence that clashed incongruously with her…

— Ayn Rand

“She could not explain the subtleties of her feeling as clearly as he could state his opinion, even though she had skill in speech,…

— Thomas Hardy

“Any relationship that developed power dynamics, where she thought she had the right to dictate someone else's behavior or have him dictate hers, was…

— Thomm Quackenbush

“He was certain she had an infirmity, some rare, peculiar mental disorder from birth, that made her do the opposite of what any authority…

— Christine Feehan

“This was the moment where she would decide her fate. She could choose to become the powerful Arella she saw or she could remain…

— Sarah Elizabeth Petersen

“The air of completeness and superiority with which she walked at my side, and the air of youthfulness and submission with which I walked…

— Charles Dickens

“... the results of the irrevocable decisions in her life, the commitments she had leaped into without thought, with only the sure and perfect…

— Erica Bauermeister

“given that she barely saw her father, given that she continued to measure out her contact with him, whether to deny herself or to…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“Her present, her future—everything—depended on his words and whether she chose to believe them.”

— Jacquelyn Middleton