Sophia Kleo

“Like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“.. and that happiness could be found in a grain of sand from the desert, as the alchemist had said. Because a grain of sand is a moment of creation, and the universe has taken millions of years to create it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Confidence is a sense of certainty about your ability, which allows you to bypass conscious thought and execute unconsciously.”
― Nate Zinsser, The Confident Mind: A Battle-Tested Guide to Unshakable Performance

“Later, years later, I would hear a song made of our meeting. [...] I was not surprised by the portrait of myself: the proud witch undone before the hero's sword, kneeling and begging for mercy. Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime of poets. As if there can be no story unless we crawl and weep.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe