Eva Figes Quotes
Sadly, man recognises that the ideal, submissive woman he has created for himself is somehow not quite what he wanted.
Eva Figes
Quotes to Explore
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The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.
Thomas A. Edison
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Words belong to each other.
Virginia Woolf
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Lady, the sun's light to our eyes is dear, And fair the tranquil reaches of the sea, And flowery earth in May, and bounding waters; And so right many fair things I might praise; Yet nothing is so radiant and so fair As for souls childless, with desire sore-smitten, To see the light of babes about the house.
Euripides
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Technically, I suppose I was following all the right behavior patterns of a trustafarian.
Winston Marshall
Mumford & Sons
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Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.
Joanne Rowling
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Our relationship maps are implicit, etched into the emotional brain and not reversible simply by understanding how they were created. You may realize that your fear of intimacy has something to do with your mother’s postpartum depression or with the fact that she herself was molested as a child, but that alone is unlikely to open you to happy, trusting engagement with others.
Bessel van der Kolk
