Smarinsights Quotes & Sayings

If you take passionate interest in a subject, it is hard not to believe yourself specially equipped for it. — Ethel Smyth

Being, however, nothing but a woman, condemned to patience, propriety, and petticoats for life, I must respect the house-keeper's opinions, and try to compose myself in some feeble and feminine way. — Wilkie Collins

During the worst stages of my eating disorder, I was all-or-none with food - either bingeing or not eating. Much of my experience was, in fact, that if I ate anything, I would eat everything. I began to understand that this happened because I was starving myself. In starvation mode, my body literally thought I was facing a famine. It didn't know that I was living near a grocery store and several fast-food restaurants. Thinking I was facing a real food shortage, its primal instinct was to binge on large amounts of food, conserving fat in preparation for the hard times ahead. — Jenni Schaefer

She wasn't a person who needed to be liked so much as she was a person who liked to be notorious. — E. Lockhart

This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think. — Soren Kierkegaard