Quote by Anaïs Nin
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, w

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. – Anaïs Nin

Other quotes by Anaïs Nin

I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of their own fate. It was not a matter of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate, they were in despair. – Anaïs Nin

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Confidence
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. – Anaïs Nin

Category:
Self-Discovery
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Other Quotes from
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Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. – Timothy Leary

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Feminism

Several men I can think of are as capable, as smart, as funny, as compassionate, and as confused — as remarkable you might say — as most women. – Jane Howard

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Feminism

The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source. – Lucretia Mott

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Feminism

The only jobs for which no man is qualified are human incubators and wet nurse. Likewise, the only job for which no woman is or can be qualified is sperm donor. – Wilma Scott Heide

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Feminism

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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape. – Thomas Jefferson

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If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish. – Charles Dickens

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Walking

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it? – Georges Duhamel

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strength

The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. – Sigmund Freud

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Insults