Sacha Chua

“Men never fail to dwell on maternity as a disqualification for the possession of many civil and political rights. Suggest the idea of women having a voice in making laws and administering the Government in the halls of legislation, in Congress, or the British Parliament, and men will declaim at once on the disabilities of maternity in a sneering contemptuous way, as if the office of motherhood was undignified and did not comport with the highest public offices in church and state. It is vain that we point them to Queen Victoria, who has carefully reared a large family, while considering and signing...”
― Elizabeth Cady Stanton, The Woman's Bible: A Classic Feminist Perspective

“The first category is always the man of the present, the second the man of the future. The first preserve the world and people it, the second move the world and lead it to its goal.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“You see, but you do not observe.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia

“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