Laura

“How could it be progress when the countryside was being stripped of its life, he wondered. Without successive generations of families keeping their feet on their own land, the countryside would be a dead place - a desert. A thousand efficient machines could never replace the joy and satisfaction that a man drew from hearing the laughter of his children playing in the fields as he tended his finca, no matter how small it might be.”
― Peter Kerr

“Mr Hemingway says a lot of things I don’t understand,’ Matilda said, ‘Especially about men and women. But I loved it all the same.’

‘A fine writer will always make you feel that', Mrs Phelps said. ‘And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda

“Seven days a week we are forced to contend with bleak feelings, thought rarely do we have the time or the will to give them serious consideration.”
― Elif Shafak, How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division

“When we exclude half of humanity from the production of knowledge we lose out on potentially transformative insights.”
― Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men