"A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally."

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The challenge of modern freedom, or the combination of isolation and freedom which confronts you, is to make yourself up. The danger is that you may emerge from the process as a not-entirely-human creature. (Referenced in How to Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young)

— Saul Bellow