Feb 21, 2006 05:49
Books Books LITERATURE EVERYWHERE!
Have you ever felt as if you are drowning in thoughts, ideas, curiosity, and longing? People think i'm weird because I'd rather read books than participate in incessant adolescent conversation that I find have a sort of brain meltdown effect after the first half hour.
I hate the way I have all these good ideas in philosophy, but I second guess myself, and someone shouts it out five minutes later, and they're regarded as brilliant. It's like wow stupid, you should have said it.If my forlorn, introverted reality were a real person,I'd throttle it around the neck.
Has anyone out there read the Feminine Mystique?
Sarah's Quote of the Day~
Feminine Mystique qouting ""A Doll's House"
"You have always been so kind to me. But our home has been nothing but a playroom. I have been your doll wife, just as at home I was Papa's doll child; and here the children have been my dolls. That's what our marriage has been Torvald...
I believe that before all else I am a reasonable human being, just as you are-or, at all events, that I must try and become one. I know quite well Torvald, that most people would think you right, and that views of that kind are to be found in books; but I can no longer content myself with what people say or with what is found in books. I must think things over for myself and try to understand them..."