Ranja

“Virginia Woolf helps. Her novels make mine possible.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.”
― Montesquieu, Persian Letters

“There is an important idea in Nietzsche, of Amor fati, the "love of your fate," which is in fact your life. As he says, if you say no to a single factor in your life, you have unravelled the whole thing. Furthermore, the more challenging or threatening the situation or context to be assimilated and affirmed, the greater the stature of the person who can achieve it. The demon you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life's pain, the greater life's reply.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

“...her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex