Brigitte Doss-johnson

“You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked ‘female’.”
― Erin McKean

“You and your books. Ah, what a gift it must be to discover the world in those squiggly lines.”
― Linda Lafferty, The Bloodletter's Daughter