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Y.T. is maxing at a Mom's Truck Stop on 405, waiting for her ride. Not that she would ever be caught dead at a Mom's Truck Stop. If, like, a semi ran her over with all eighteen of its wheels in front of a Mom's Truck Stop, she would drag herself down the shoulder of the highway using her eyelid muscles until she reached a Snooze 'n' Cruise full of horny derelicts rather than go into a Mom's Truck Stop. Neal Stephenson
Before long, unfortunately, she began to be jealous herself, and Tomas saw her jealousy not as a Nobel Prize, but as a burden, a burden he would be saddled with until not long before his death. Milan Kundera
A voice had begun to sing. It was very far away and Digory found it hard to decide from what direction it was coming. Sometimes it seemed to come from all directions at once. Sometimes he almost thought it was coming out of the earth beneath them. Its lower notes were deep enough to be the voice of the earth herself. There were no words. It was hardly a tune. But it was beyond comparison, the most beautiful sound he had ever heard. C. S. Lewis
They were such seriously futile people that she found herself wanting to cry out against their ready-made justifications for pointless lives. Frank Herbert
Mme. de Gallardon, who could never stop herself from sacrificing her greatest social ambitions and highest hopes of someday dazzling the world to the immediate, obscure, and private pleasure of saying something disagreeable. Marcel Proust
I dust a whole shelf of books on pregnancy, breastfeeding, the first six months, the first year, the first two years? and I wonder what the child care-deprived Maddy makes of all this. Maybe there's been some secret division of the world's women into breeders and drones, and those at the maid level are no longer supposed to be reproducing at all. Maybe this is why our office manager, Tammy, who was once a maid herself, wears inch-long fake nails and tarty little outfits? to show she's... Barbara Ehrenreich
I thank you; but I assure you you are quite mistaken. Mr. Elton and I are very good friends, and nothing more;' and she walked on, amusing herself in the consideration of the blunders which often arise from a partial knowledge of circumstances, of the mistakes which people of high pretensions to judgment are for ever falling into; and not very well pleased with her brother for imagining her blind and ignorant, and in want of counsel. Jane Austen
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "She was a defective child-bearing machine. She destroyed..."
She was a defective child-bearing machine. She destroyed herself automatically while giving birth to Dwayne. Kurt Vonnegut
Terry Prachett quote: "Nanny Ogg never did any housework herself, but she was the..."
Nanny Ogg never did any housework herself, but she was the cause of housework in other people. Terry Prachett
That was it. That was really it. She knew that she had told herself that that was it only seconds earlier, but this was now the final real ulimate it. Douglas Adams
She looked at her own past, and, for the first time, she forgave herself: it hadn't beenher fault, but the faultof that insecure little boy, who had given up after the first attempt. Paulo Coelho
Lao Tzu quote: "Is it not through her selflessness that she is able to perfect..."
Is it not through her selflessness that she is able to perfect herself? Lao Tzu
She told me that every other step was just for me.'But that's only half of the dance,' I said. Yeah,' my father said. 'She was keeping the rest for herself. Nobody can give everything away. It ain't healthy. Sherman Alexie
Thus weary of the world, away she hies, And yokes her silver doves; by whose swift aid. Their mistress mounted through the empty skies. In her light chariot quickly is convey'd; Holding their course to Paphos, where their queen. Means to immure herself and not be seen. William Shakespeare
I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man. Arthur Schopenhauer

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