Eccentricity Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

“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

“…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 had lost her innocent vision of justice early in her career, and had come to understand that the laws had not been created…

— Paulo Coelho

“She endured her own nature and supposed it to be the burden of another's.”

— Charles Williams

“A very important part of creating a new life was independence. She did not want to be accountable to anyone but herself.”

— Robyn Carr

“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

“It was piecework, and she was apt to have a family to keep alive; and stern and ruthless economic laws had arranged it that…

— Upton Sinclair

“she would be free of mundane care, she was a pure will towards right. She had sold herself, but she had a new freedom.…

— D.H. Lawrence

“She would not accept it as a law of nature that the individual is always defeated. In a way she realized that she herself…

— George Orwell

“She had some kind of foolish and unreasonable notion that the more doggedly she stood, the more would she placate certain mysterious powers which…

— Cora Sandel

“...She was becoming what she was destined to become...: her own person, her own independent and particular self.”

— Amanda Coplin

“She had that rare virtue of never existing completely except for that opportune monent.”

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez