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

“You must know as much about your fears as you can before you go into battle. To be surprised by them in the midst of the fighting will be to be undone by them.”
― Joann Smith, When I Was Boudicca

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

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