„Maybe she hadn’t saved the world but she had made a major improvement.“

— Charles Bukowski

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„Mrs. Jennings was a widow, with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she had now therefore nothing to do but to marry all the rest of the world.“
— Jane Austen
„She was unusual because even though I knew her family was as poor as ours, nothing she said or did seemed touched by that. Or by prejudice. Or by anything the world said or did. It was as if she had something inside her that somehow made all that not count.“
— Jesse Owens
„It seems as if the female spirit of the world were mourning everlastingly over blessings, not lost, but which she has never had, and which, in her discouragement she feels that she never will have, they are so far off.“
— Florence Nightingale
„How do you tell an adult that maybe everything wrong in the world stems from the fact that she's stopped believing the impossible can happen?“
— Jodi Picoult