If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell... - Virginia Woolf

"Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others."

"No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes"

"The beauty of the world...has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder."

"Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent."

"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."