Lina

“The marriage of Zeus and Hera can hardly be reframed into a "happy one" and yet Hera is the Goddess of marriage. Hera and Zeus could be described as quarrelsome predecessors of the Holy Family. For the Greeks they symbolized marriage par excellence.”
― Adolf Guggenbühl-Craig, Matrimonio: Vivi o morti

“She had power over the most magnificent forces on Earth, but she still didn’t feel like she had power over the most important thing of all—her own heart.”
― Josephine Angelini, Goddess

“Back then everyone was saying: "We're going to die, we're going to die. By the year 2000, there won't be any Belarussians left.”
― Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

“No one had taught us what freedom means. We'd only ever learned how to die for freedom.”
― Svetlana Alexievich