“I was my own woman.
The next step was to find the proper sort of man.”
Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar
Source: The Bell Jar
“Every woman must live by some sense of victory over disappointments, and Olympias was not the sort of woman to find compensation in her own powers of self-control and endurance.”
Lives of Wives (London: Cassell, 1939)
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“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
Source: I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) American women's rights activist
Statement of Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1856), partially quoted in The Right to Vote (2001) by Claudia Isler, p. 50, and in Perfecting the Family : Antislavery Marriages in Nineteenth-Century America (1997) by Chris Dixon, p. 144
“Every woman should have a purse of her own.”
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) American women's rights activist
“Ought not every woman, like every man, to follow the bent of her own talents?”
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël book Corinne
Bk. 14, ch. 1
Corinne (1807)
“Woman must come of age by herself…
She must find her true center alone.”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh book Gift from the Sea
Source: Gift from the Sea
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) British statesman and man of letters
16 March 1752
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
Virginia Woolf book A Room of One's Own
Source: A Room of One's Own (1929), Ch. 1, p. 4