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“Ma il fatto sorprendente e difficile da spiegare era che il sesso - cioè la donna - attira anche i piacevoli saggisti, i romanzieri [...]; uomini che non hanno alcun titolo apparente tranne quello di non essere donne. [...] Era un fenomeno in apparenza stranissimo, limitato al sesso maschile.
Le donne non scrivono libri sugli uomini [...].
Perché le donne, a giudicare da questo catalogo, sono assai più interessanti per gli uomini di quanto gli uomini lo siano per le donne?”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own / Three Guineas

“Lo spettacolo è certo strano, pensavo. La storia dell'opposizione degli uomini all'emancipazione delle donne è forse più interessante della storia stessa di quella emancipazione”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“Possiamo predire che i libri delle donne dovranno essere più brevi, più concentrati di quelli degli uomini, e così fatti da non richiedere molte ore di lavoro continuo e ininterrotto. Perché di interruzioni ce ne saranno sempre.”
― Virginia Woolf

“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
― Jane Goodall

“We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place--or not to bother”
― Jane Goodall

“Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.”
― Jane Goodall, Jane Goodall: 40 Years at Gombe

“The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.”
― Jane Goodall

“I like to envision the whole world as a jigsaw puzzle... If you look at the whole picture, it is overwhelming and terrifying, but if you work on your little part of the jigsaw and know that people all over the world are working on their little bits, that's what will give you hope.”
― Jane Goodall

“I do have hope. Nature is enormously resilient, humans are vastly intelligent, the energy and enthusiasm that can be kindled among young people seems without limit, and he human spirit is indomitable. But if we want life, we will have to stop depending on someone else to save the world. It is up to us-you and me, all of us. Myself, I have placed my faith in the children.”
― Jane Goodall

“I'd like to be remembered as someone who really helped people to have a little humility and realize that we are part of the animal kingdom, not separated from it.”
― Jane Goodall

“The harmony of natural law … reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.”
― Jane Goodall

“And always I have this feeling--which may not be true at all--that I am being used as a messenger.”
― Jane Goodall, Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey

“The greatest danger to our future is apathy.”
― Jane Goodall

“People said, "Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.”
― Jane Goodall

“I don't have any idea of who or what God is. But I do believe in some great spiritual power. I feel it particularly when I'm out in nature. It's just something that's bigger and stronger than what I am or what anybody is. I feel it. And it's enough for me.”
― Jane Goodall

“You were saying that hope requires us to work hard to make what we want to happen actually happen.” “Well, in certain contexts it is essential. Take this dire environmental nightmare we are living in today. We certainly hope that it is not too late to turn things around—but we know that this change will not happen unless we take action.” “So by being active, you become more hopeful?” “Well, you have it both ways. You won’t be active unless you hope that your action is going to do some good. So you need hope to get you going, but then by taking action, you generate more hope. It’s a circular thing.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“Every day we make some impact on the planet. And the cumulative effect of millions of small ethical actions will truly make a difference.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times