Julia Arizanova

“It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“I could become servile, cloying, saccharinely sweet: the whole package of lies that passes in the world as femininity.”
― Erica Jong

“Blush like you mean it”
― Erica Jong

“However anxious one is to reach one’s goal, one can excuse delays on the route when these are caused by ovations.”
― Alexandre Dumas