Lizzie Stark > Quotes

“We have made the same mistakes over again, and as I remember the large, old great auk shells in the cabinet, I think perhaps the birds are not the foolish ones after all.”
― Lizzie Stark, Egg: A Dozen Ovatures

“The Amazons, a mythological tribe of warrior women, cut off their right breasts so they could better draw their bows, exchanging femininity for fearsomeness on the field of battle. They’re even named for their breastlessness—a common derivation suggests it comes from the Greek a (without) mazos (breast).”
― Lizzie Stark, Pandora's DNA: Tracing the Breast Cancer Genes Through History, Science, and One Family Tree