Jessie Adamczyk

“One never said the things one wanted--one remembered them an hour afterward. On the other hand one usually said a lot of things one shouldn't, simply from a sense that one had to say something. Such a sense was upsetting; it muddled one's wits.”
― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“If I ever see myself as separate or superior, if I try to lift myself up by pulling down others, if I believe people are on a journey I have completed, doing personal work I have mastered, attempting tasks I've accomplished--if I have any feeling that I am above them instead of trying to rise with them, then I have isolated myself from them.”
― Melinda Gates, The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World

“Wisdom isn’t about accumulating more facts; it’s about understanding big truths in a deeper way. Year by year, with the support and insights of friends and partners and people who have gone before me, I see more clearly that the primary causes of poverty and illness are the cultural, financial, and legal restrictions that block what women can do—and think they can do—for themselves and their children.”
― Melinda Gates, The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World

“Literature is to language as Christ is to Lazarus. Language died long ago, and the writer makes it live again. From the outside looking in, being a writer means making words even though they all already exist, and always have. In reality, though, a writer is someone who understands that words cannot say anything. Words that can actually express something do not exist. All words were used up long ago”
― Mikhail Shishkin