“In her dreams, to be great was to be one of three things, a Burns, a Lincoln, or a Florence Nightingale. And now one dream, her first and longest, was permanently over.”
1923 Winner-One of Ours
“He would spring to his feet, turn over quickly in bed, or stop short in his walk, because the old belief flashed up in him with an intense kind of hope, an intense kind of pain, -the conviction that there was something splendid about life, if he could but find it”
1922 Winner-Alice Adams
“Is it life to spend your time imagining things that aren’t so, and never will be? Beautiful things happen to other people; why should I be the only one they never can happen to?”
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
“In his impatience I believe he was trying to accelerate the train with his feet”.
The Feminine Mystique
“The Feminine Mystique says that the highest value and only commitment for women is the fulfillment of their own femininity…and that the root of women’s troubles in the past is that women envied men, women tried to be like men, instead of accepting their own nature, which can find fulfillment only in sexual passivity, male domination, and nurturing maternal love.”