Simone De Beauvoir, From Diary Of A Philosophy Student: Volume 1, 1926-27

I know you. I have felt you like a serpent crawling in my body.

I do not know the name of the feeling that I have for you. But it is a special tenderness, something I have never felt until now, not for anyone.

— Gustave Flaubert in correspondence with George Sand; Croisset, 12 November 1866, Monday night, from Selected Letters

Obelisk and Metronome / Stanley Kunitz, from "The Testing-Tree"

Margaret Atwood, “Thoughts from Underground”, Selected Poems: 1965-1975

March 31, 1925 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 3]

Martha Gellhorn, from a letter to William Walton featured in The Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn

Sylvia Plath, from a letter featured in The Letters of Sylvia Plath Vol. 1: 1940-1956

Unknown // Suzanne Scanlon