Kathleen Burt

“Its history is an especially rich and intriguing one for women: the great salons of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries gave women an intellectual influence and freedom; in the nineteenth century, for the bohemian and the flâneuse pleasure and revolution were a seductive mix; in the mid-twentieth century, Paris spelled freedom for Simone de Beauvoir who set the standard for contemporary feminism in her exhilarating The Second Sex.”
― Catherine Cullen, Virago Woman's Travel Guide to Paris

“The greatest pleasure does not consist in experiencing new things, but in savoring the infinite variation of what we already know”
― Federico Castigliano, Flâneur: The Art of Wandering the Streets of Paris

“Like a book on a shelf I'd waited years to open, Paris had always been waiting for me...”
― Louisa Deasey, A Letter From Paris: A True Story of Hidden Art, Lost Romance, and Family Reclaimed

“It is possible to act in strict accordance with God’s law and with one’s conscience, you comprehend, and still to encounter difficulties and tragedy. It is the painful truth that we still do not know why le bon Dieu allows evil to exist, but we have His word for it that this is true.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander