“A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.” -Jane Austen

“To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream.” -Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“The more I see of the world, the less inclined I am to think well of it.” -Elizabeth Bennet, Pride and Prejudice