George Eliot

Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the read more

Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.rn

There are many victories worse than a defeat.rn

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when read more

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.