1. "I would always rather be happy than dignified."
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

2. "I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am." The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

3. “One cannot count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.”
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

4. “'The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.'”
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

5. "I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be calm waters in all of our lives."
Persuasion by Jane Austen

6. "I go to a beauty salon and have my hair blown dry. It's cheaper by far than psychoanalysis, and far more uplifting."
I Remember Nothing by Nora Ephron

7. "'When you gone to get married? You need to have some babies. It’ll settle you.'"
"'I don’t want to make somebody else. I want to make myself.'”
Sula by Toni Morrison