All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.

Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.

To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.

In dreams begin responsibilitiy.

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.

When I think of all the books I have read, and of the wise words I have heard spoken, and of the anxiety I have given to parents and grandparents, and of the hopes that I have had, all life weighed in the scales of my own life seems to me a preparation for something that never happens.