“Yes, here I am returning, the woman who bore herself to the bottom and back. Who wanted to swim like dolphins, leaping waves and diving. Who wanted only to belong to herself.”

“A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.”

“Let every woman, who has once begun to think, examine herself”

“And earth who herself bestowed the body takes it back and wastes not a whit.”
Terram corpus quae dederit, ipsam capere neque dispendi facere hilum.

“Do you want to understand how to swim, or do you want to jump in and start swimming? Only people who are afraid of the water want to understand it. Other people jump in and get wet.”

“A single woman who supports herself is called a career woman, while a single man who supports himself is called a playboy…Ironically, a woman who commits and becomes financially dependent is considered more mature than a man who does not commit but is financially independent.”

“There's something about her," Caire said in a low voice. "She cares for everyone about her, yet neglects herself. I want to be the one who cares for her.”

“I am an actively heterosexual woman who celebrates however people want to express their sexuality.”

“How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?”

“How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.”