Quote by Sherwood Anderson

“An indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her consciousness, filled her whole being with a vague anguish. It was…

— Kate Chopin

She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right…

— Nicholas Sparks

She took a sort of abject pride in her mecilessness toward herself.

— David Foster Wallace

“Trapped, cutting herself against the jagged edges of her emotions, she was a prisoner of her own spirit.”

— Leigh Hershkovich

“Her arousal shocked her. It went against everything she believed in to act like a man’s slave and yet this was different. Just like…

— Elliot Mabeuse

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

— Amanda Coplin

She imagined herself both queen and slave, dominatrix and victim. In her imagination she was making love with men of all skin colors--white, black,…

— Paulo Coelho

...she refused to leave anything to someone else that she could do better herself.

— Michelle Moran

“She had that feeling again, fleeting as it may be. She’d always wondered what it would feel like to empty the soul from a…

— J.T. Ellison

Some of her self-hatred had oozed out with the blood.

— Anonymous

“She drew herself up, partially to intimidate the part of her that was intimidated by her own audacity.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“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