Sacha Chua

“Omne ignotum pro magnifico.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Red-Headed League - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

“It was just so in the American Revolution, in 1776, the first delicacy the men threw overboard in Boston harbor was the tea, woman's favorite beverage. The tobacco and whiskey, though heavily taxed, they clung to with the tenacity of the devil-fish.”
― Elizabeth Cady Stanton, The Woman's Bible: A Classic Feminist Perspective

“To-day the woman is Mrs. Richard Roe, to-morrow Mrs. John Doe, and again Mrs. James Smith according as she changes masters, and she has so little self-respect that she does not see the insult of the custom.”
― Elizabeth Cady Stanton, The Woman's Bible: A Classic Feminist Perspective

“A percentage! What splendid words they have; they are so scientific, so consolatory.... Once you've said 'percentage' there's nothing more to worry about. If we had any other word... maybe we might feel more uneasy....”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment