These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
—Claude Monet, 1908
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Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.
—Rebecca West, 1959We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
—Tennessee Williams, 1953To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949Language is the archives of history.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
—Jane Austen, 1815That obtained in youth may endure like characters engraved in stones.
—Ibn Gabirol, 1040It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born.
—Erasmus, 1518Does anybody really want to attend to cities other than to flee, fleece, privatize, butcher, or decimate them?
—Jane Holtz Kay, 1992Nature never breaks her own laws.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500He who would be happy should stay at home.
—Greek proverbAnd your very flesh shall be a great poem.
—Walt Whitman, 1855Two crimes undid me: a poem and a mistake.
—Ovid, 10