Gracie

“The idealized woman becomes property, symbol, and ornament; she is stripped of her essential human qualities. The devalued woman becomes a different kind of object; she is the spittoon in which men release their negative anti-woman feelings.”
― bell hooks, Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.”
― Margaret Drabble

“Literature is news that stays news.”
― Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading