“I think that my biggest achievement is that after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane.”
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis to the poet Stephen Spender (via caryrandolph)
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“men still have trouble recognizing that a woman can be complex, can have ambition, good looks, sexuality, erudition, and common sense. a woman can have all those facets, and yet men, in literature and in drama, seem to need to simplify women, to polarize us as either the whore or the angel. that sensibility is prevalent, even to this day.”
natalie dormer. (via dowries)
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“I certainly have not the talent which some people possess,’ said Darcy, “of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (via yoexcusememister)
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