Leah Brown

“The irony, of course, is that kids believe that knowledge unlocks happiness. More than anything, they crave access to all the things that they aren’t supposed to know yet; as if being privy to the secrets of the world will open up some magical door to adulthood. They believe that if you know, you will understand. But in fact, the opposite is true. The more you come to know about the world, the less it makes sense; and the more you wish you could just climb right back inside your mother’s arms and hide there, an oblivious kid, forever.”
― Janelle Brown, What Kind of Paradise

“Hitler had a bet that his youth, deliberately raised for this moment in his totalitarian society, would outfight the soft, spoiled children of democracy. Hitler lost that bet.”
― Stephen E. Ambrose, D-Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of WW II

“We have cats. The father is not very useful.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland

“The tradition of men as guardians and protectors had quite died out. These stalwart virgins had no men to fear and therefore no need of protection.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland / The Yellow Wallpaper