“Its probably not just by chance that Im alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless hes terribly strong. And if hes stronger than I, Im the one who cant live with him. Im neithe...”

“There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.”

“Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.”

“My life didn't please me, so I created my life.”

“There are people who have money and people who are rich.”

“A woman with good shoes i never ugly!”

“Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.”

“If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.”

“I have a renewed commitment to elegance, she said, in case you think I'm just spending money for the fun of it. ”

“Fear finds its prey in adolescents for the exact same reason fearlessness does. Every cut, scrape, broken arm or cancer is a cut, scrape, broken arm or cancer that has yet to arrive, that is on the...”

“No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.”

“It pained me to imagine how our twosome appeared to others, marked as those kind of girls who belonged to each other. Those sexless fixtures of high school.”

“Stand up for what is right even if it means standing alone.”

“Stand up for what is just against the unjust.”

“Many people see themselves as a rose, when all they are is just a prick.”