“I threw my 20th birthday party at Brown, and I didnt even have to say to anyone not to put pictures on Facebook. Not a single picture went up. That was when I knew Id found a solid group of friends...”

“I want to be a Renaissance Woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I just want to do everything.”

“If you want to run for Prime Minister, you can. If you dont, thats wonderful, too. Shave your armpits, dont shave them, wear flats one day, heels the next. These things are so irrelevant and surfac...”

“The saddest thing a girl can do is dumb herself down for a guy.”

“When at 15, my girlfriends started dropping out of their beloved sports teams, because they didnt want to appear muscle-y, when at 18, my male friends were unable to express their feelings, I decid...”

“Dont let anyone tell you what you can and cant do or achieve. Do what you want to do and be who you want to be. Just encourage and include each other, dont ostracize the gender in front of you.”

“It was four o'clock of a stickily wet Saturday. As long as it is anything from Monday to Friday the average library attendant goes around thanking her stars she isn't a school-teacher; but the last...”

“The world is quiet here.”

“That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”

“If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that we cannot manage comfortably with them, nor live in any way with...”

“When we are at peace within our marriage, the effects can be astounding! We will raise happier children, become better employees, and overall find the joy in life.”

“Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.”