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But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet.

W. B. Yeats / He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

G. K. Chesterton / Various writings

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

Virginia Woolf / A Room of One's Own

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

Jonathan Swift / Thoughts on Various Subjects

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt / Various writings

I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

Walt Whitman / Leaves of Grass

I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

Walt Whitman / Leaves of Grass

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Mark Twain / Various attributed

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Oscar Wilde / Various attributed

He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

Emily Brontë / Wuthering Heights

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will.

Charlotte Brontë / Jane Eyre

I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.

Mary Wollstonecraft / A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / Self-Reliance (attributed)
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