barbara white

“The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Death to the young is more than that undiscovered country; despite its inevitability, it is a place having reality only in song or in other people's grief.”
― Maya Angelou, Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas

“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter, as witness the pagan elements in medieval Christianity and the evolution of the Russian "KGB" from the czarist secret service that preceded it”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale