Arlette

“Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women."

[Commencement Address, Wellesley College, 1996]”
― Nora Ephron

“It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and love for a time in the wilderness.”
― Loren Eiseley

“Don’t worry, he said, I never leave a damsel in the same state of distress I found her in.”
― Emily Carter

“one blow in anger [would] kill, probably, a child from aged two to eight. Those over eight would take two blows to kill.”
― Patricia Highsmith