Gaïa

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Betrayal. Translation means doing violence upon the original, means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes. So then where does that leave us? How can we conclude, except by acknowledging that an act of translation is then necessarily always an act of betrayal?”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“No, the mother finally said. I think working mother is perhaps the most nonsensical concept ever concocted. I mean, who isn’t a working mother? And then add a paid job to it, so what are you then? A working working mother? Imagine saying working father.”
― Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch

“How evil to praise women for giving up each and every dream.”
― Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch